Post by Daniel on Apr 23, 2017 8:22:46 GMT -5
Pope Angers Jews With Comparison of Refugee Camps and Concentration Camps
By Abra Forman April 23, 2017
“The God who is my rock, in Him I take refuge; my shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; my saviour, Thou savest me from violence.” II Samuel 22:3
Pope Francis drew the ire of Jewish groups on Saturday when he likened modern European refugee centers to the concentration camps used by Nazis during the Holocaust just a week before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“These refugee camps – so many are concentration camps, crowded with people…because international accords seem more important than human rights,” he criticized at a Rome ceremony paying tribute to modern-day Christian martyrs.
The comment met with immediate backlash from Jewish groups.
“The conditions in which migrants are currently living in some European countries may well be difficult, and deserve still greater international attention, but concentration camps they certainly are not,” American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris said in a statement.
more
www.breakingisraelnews.com/86944/pope-francis-likens-migrant-crisis-holocaust-calling-refugee-centers-concentration-camps/
By Abra Forman April 23, 2017
“The God who is my rock, in Him I take refuge; my shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; my saviour, Thou savest me from violence.” II Samuel 22:3
Pope Francis drew the ire of Jewish groups on Saturday when he likened modern European refugee centers to the concentration camps used by Nazis during the Holocaust just a week before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“These refugee camps – so many are concentration camps, crowded with people…because international accords seem more important than human rights,” he criticized at a Rome ceremony paying tribute to modern-day Christian martyrs.
The comment met with immediate backlash from Jewish groups.
“The conditions in which migrants are currently living in some European countries may well be difficult, and deserve still greater international attention, but concentration camps they certainly are not,” American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris said in a statement.
more
www.breakingisraelnews.com/86944/pope-francis-likens-migrant-crisis-holocaust-calling-refugee-centers-concentration-camps/
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