Jonathan Sacerdoti
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So the idea that he's acting...
as a Jew and part of a combined and large Jewish conspiracy in what he's doing, to me, isn't quite right.
And on migration, a lot of people will turn around to me and say, well, isn't that what you're saying the Muslims are doing?
Isn't that what you're saying Islamic immigration is doing?
How come you're saying, well, it's not Jewish of the Jews to do this?
but it is Islamic of the Muslims to do it.
And I think that, again, it's a very awkward conversation because we're not people, Jews and non-Jews, Brits, who like to make generalisations about other people's faiths and beliefs.
But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't look at them.
And the Islamic attitude towards migration is very different from the Jewish one.
The Islamic concept of Hidra, which was the migration that Muhammad made from Mecca to Medina, fleeing himself, but then it became symbolic of an act of spreading Islam.
It became symbolic of opening Islam to the rest of the world.
And the notion of Hidra has been used since in quite a lot of mainstream Islam, as I understand it from people I've spoken to on this topic.
It's been used to suggest that Islamic immigration, mass immigration around the world, can be used to spread Islam into other countries.
And through the concept of dawah, which is trying to offer and familiarize a society with Islam and effectively sell it to them for conversion.
And if failing that through jihad and fighting, the aim is ultimately for Islam
many parts of traditional Muslim thought to convert the whole world into an Islamic Ummah, a whole where everyone shares in what they of course would consider to be a good thing because it's their belief.
But that is totally different to the Jewish concept of migration.
Jews fled places of danger and throughout our history, throughout our religion, we yearned for the return to Zion.
It's in many of our prayers.
That's where the name Zionism comes from.