Here is an appropriate response to President Trump’s senseless comment, “I think any Jewish
people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Donald Trump. President of the United States.”
No one has to prove his/her loyalty to anyone. Loyalty, faithfulness, and love are personal feelings, the love you have for your mother/land is between you and the mother and not anyone’s business.
I admire this poem by Reb Irwin Keller.
“Disloyal Jew”
By Reb Irwin Keller
[Reb Keller’s website is https://www.irwinkeller.com/ He lives in Sonoma County California and is a student member of Ohalah, the Association of Rabbis for Jewish Renewal.}
I am a disloyal Jew.
I am not loyal to a political party.
Nor will I be loyal to dictators and mad kings.
I am not loyal to walls or cages.
I am not loyal to taunts or tweets.
I am not loyal to hatred, to Jew-baiting, to the gloating connivings of white supremacy.
I am a disloyal Jew.
I am not loyal to any foreign power.
Nor to abuse of power at home.
I am not loyal to a legacy of conquest, erasure and exploitation
I am not loyal to stories that tell me whom I should hate.
I am a loyal Jew.
I am loyal to the inconveniences of kindness.
I am loyal to the dream of justice.
I am loyal to this suffering Earth
And to all life.
I am not loyal to any founding fathers.
But I am loyal to the children who will come
And to the quality of world, we leave them.
I am not loyal to what America has become.
But to what America could be.
I am loyal to Emma Lazarus. To huddled masses.
To freedom and welcome,
Holiness, hope and love.