New York: Donald Trump may not have forged peace in the Middle East yet, but he’s doing wonders for relations between Jews and Muslims in the United States.
Jewish and Muslims activists in the United States are forging alliances like never before in response to the president’s rhetoric and action toward Muslim immigrants.
Many Jewish organisations have interpreted Mr Trump’s executive order banning entry by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries as a call to arms.
Jewish delegations turned out in mass for a 10,000-strong demonstration in New York on Sunday. (“Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors standing with refugees, Muslims immigrants,” read one sign.)
Almost every day in New York for a week now there has been an interfaith conference or prayer service – involving Christian groups as well as Muslims and Jews – devoted to the current crisis over predominantly Muslim immigrants and refugees.
“We have common interests,” said Al Hadj Talib Abdur-Rashid, the imam of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem.
Read the full article by Barbara Demick at The Sydney Morning Herald.