25 June 2018

Liberal Judaism’s senior rabbi, Rabbi Danny Rich, has said the world needs to let American President Donald Trump know that his policies on refugees are “immoral and dangerous”.

Danny was quizzed about the US President by Victoria Derbyshire on her BBC Two show earlier today.

He said: “The policies are immoral, because we are supposed to be one big human family. Where we are citizens is largely an accident of birth.

“Secondly, his policy of America First is dangerous in the sense that we are in a global world and we have to look and think globally about the movement of people. That needs to be managed by the global community, not by one country putting its interests first.”

Speaking as part of a panel responding to President Trump’s recent language and actions on refugees, Danny added: “We need to find a way to talk about immigration without dehumanising people.”

Watch today’s episode here. The discussion featuring Danny starts at 1:27:00.