In War of Words between David Duke and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Duke makes more sense

Go to Utah!

Rabbi Boteach claimed racism, as the NY Post and others reported, when a Utah radio station canned him because he “urged black Katrina evacuees to relocate permanently in lily-white Utah.”

But Rabbi Boteach is not a Utah resident, nor is he in any way representative of its population. If R. Boteach wanted to offer sanctuary, it would have been more appropriate for him to raise funds and offer to bring these African-American refugees to his own Modern-Orthodox enclave, in say, Teaneck, NJ, instead of suggesting they go to Utah.

He did no such thing.

David Duke slammed Boteach in typical hateful hyperbole. But within his statement on his website he included the observation that, “I would never go into a Jewish neighborhood and tell them that they should adopt policies that would destroy it and their heritage” as well as the demand “Rabbi Shmuley, you should get the hell out of Utah.”

He has a point. And noting that the former Grand Wizard is an “abomination” does not refute it.