Three resign from Human Relations Commission amid outcry over antisemitic commentshttps://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/local/story/2023-07-28/human-relations-commission-resignations-martinez-stephan-raufi-antisemitismA commissioner’s recent antisemitic comments have prompted a rash of resignations from the San Diego County Human Relations Commission, along with growing calls for overhauling the body.
At a meeting last week, while coming to the defense of a fellow commissioner who had drawn outrage for earlier comments on Israel, Khaliq Raufi made offensive remarks of his own, falsely asserting that Judaism teaches Jews to kill.
Raufi stepped down this week, as did county District Attorney Summer Stephan and county Sheriff Kelly Martinez — the only two elected officials who were seated on the commission.
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During the July 18 meeting, Raufi — an Afghan Community Islamic Center member and refugee who served alongside U.S. troops before immigrating to San Diego in 1992 — made inflammatory claims about Jewish scripture. “It states ‘Go kill Palestinians. Wipe them all out,’” he said. “So it’s a teaching that they, on a daily basis, teach their followers in their synagogues.”
Ucky-ducky ... probably unlike Raufi, I have read the Books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, to which he alluded - not quoted - multiple times. They do command wiping out a people group, as justice for several centuries of being horrific (e.g. sacrificing children as offerings to their gods). They are very specific as to that people group, and while Israel disobeyed the command (e.g. the Book of Judges), the people group basically ceased to exist as a distinct people group at least a century or two before the time of Jesus. This was due to successive conquests by Israel, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome (including the Pumic Wars, which wiped out the Canaanite colony Carthage and its colonies in Spain), and centuries of intermarrying with their conquerors.
