North Korea Needs a Jewish Voice

What brought me to this cause was my offense that that oxymoron called the “world community” abets genocide. Being an American soldier brought me to Korea, but I can’t deny that being Jewish played some role in bringing me to feel so strongly about it. Don’t Jews have a particular historical responsibility to act at a time like this? It’s especially true now that we have read David Hawk’s report on the concentration camps, the BBC reports on gas chambers, and Amnesty’s accusations of using food as weapon of political cleansing (see all of this and more here). Let me be clear–every American should care about this, and most who know the facts do. I have been deeply impressed by the compassion of so many Christians brought to this cause by their faith, and of a few key Jewish leaders like Rabbi Cooper and Michael Horowitz. Still, Jews must do more to lend their weight to issues like this one, lest they be seen as a group exclusively concerned about Israel. Concern for Israel should be a part of a greater principle, not our ultimate end. The earthly Messiah of a free world belongs to everyone.

If you are Jewish–or have friends who are–and find some truth in what I say here, then please leave a comment telling me how we can start recruiting this support. One way that occurs to me–we could show the BBC documentary “Access to Evil,” which exposed the North Korean gas chambers, in as many synagogues as possible.