The Two Faces of Jonathan Sacks

by Les May

THE first of these passages is taken from the 2015 book ‘Lessons in Leadership’ by Jonathan Sacks.

‘It is not enough to be righteous if that means turning our backs on a society that is guilty of wrongdoing.  We must take a stand.  We must protest.  We must register dissent even if the probability of changing minds is small.  This is because the moral life is the life we share with others.’

In 2016 he wrote:

‘Anti-Semitism is a virus that survives by mutating.  In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated because of their religion.  In the 19th and 20th centuries they were hated because of their race.  Today they are hated because of their nation state, Israel.  Anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism.’

http://rabbisacks.org/anti-zionism-is-the-new-anti-semitism-rabbi-sacks-writes-for-newsweek/

Demonstration by British Jews

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