President Donald Trump has sparked shock and outrage throughout the world with his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza by forcibly removing Palestinians from the land and now hundreds of rabbis are joining in the chorus of condemnation.
The Guardian reports that more than 350 rabbis signed on to an ad in the New York Times this week in which condemned Trump's Palestinian expulsion plan with the message that "Jewish people say no to ethnic cleansing!”
One of the signatories of the ad, Rabbi Toba Spitzer of Newton, Massachusetts, put out a separate statement to go along with the ad that outlined her personal objections to the Trump plan.
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"It is vitally important that we in the American Jewish community add our voices to all those refusing to entertain this insidious plan," she argued. "Hitler’s dream of making Germany ‘Judenrein,’ ‘cleansed of Jews,’ led to the slaughter of our people."
Rabbi Yosef Berman of the New Synagogue Project in Washington DC, accused Trump of trying to play God by claiming "authority to rule, own, and dominate our country and the world."
"Jewish teaching is clear: Trump is not God and cannot take away Palestinians’ inherent dignity or steal their land for a real estate deal," he said. "Trump’s desire to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza is morally abhorrent. Jewish leaders reject Trump’s attempts to wring profit from displacement and suffering and must act to stop this heinous crime."