Those seeking asylum deserve so much better than this government
Published
by
Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
We repost here the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCore) Statement on the Tory government’s vindictive “New Plan for Immigration” together with a JCore letter on the topic, published in the Guardian on 29th March.
We include as well the JCore Haggadah Supplement “Let the People In!”
This article was originally published by the Guardian on Mon 29 Mar 2021. Read the original here.
Those seeking asylum deserve so much better than this government
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But weren’t Jewish people turned away from our shores in the 1930s? The Allies staged the Evian Conference in 1938 to decide whether to accept Jewish people fleeing the Nazis. They decided …. no. Our cruel indifference to the Jewish plight under the Nazis should be a matter of eternal shame. Never again – for anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évian_Conference