Imagine… a world with no defence against conquest

Dec 3, 2021 by Jill

by Melanie Phillips:

Opposition to effective border control is an attitude of national self-loathing.

Diaspora Jews have a collective history of constant migration. Ethnically cleansed hundreds of years ago from their ancient homeland in Israel, they wandered between continents that periodically persecuted them, threw them out or barred them altogether.

How, then, should Jews approach today’s phenomenon of the mass migration of peoples?

All over the world, millions are on the move from the impoverished and violent developing world to the west in search of a better and safer life.

[…] For those of us whose grandparents and great-grandparents fled pogroms and persecution in eastern Europe, or those haunted by the memory of the world shutting its gates to the Jews of Nazi Germany who were then consumed in the Holocaust, the migrants tend to provoke a visceral sympathy and the belief that turning them away is inhumane.

This view is shared by most liberals. And indeed, many of the migrants’ stories are heartbreaking.

However, this is emphatically not the same story as in the past. This is not merely a matter of immigration or political persecution as understood by the international convention on refugees. The numbers wanting to move, and with potentially many more millions behind them, are on an unprecedented scale. Left unchecked, this would entail two baleful consequences for countries admitting such a tide.

The first is practical, in that the social infrastructure of housing and public services would become overwhelmed. The second, more explosive consequence is that such numbers would change the ethnic and cultural character of the nation — without the public ever having been consulted.

Of course, some incoming cultures are easier to assimilate than others because of their common values in language, religion and so on.

Muslim immigration, however, presents particular problems. Many Muslims genuinely sign up to western bedrock values, such as equality for women and freedom of religion and expression. But many others, who are disproportionately represented in this movement of peoples, are not only unwilling to integrate but expect their host country to assimilate to Islamic precepts.

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