Irregularities Emerge in Progress By Pesach Petition

Progress By Pesach, which seeks an end to enforcement of our immigration laws and amnesty for its violators, has some typically self-congratulatory news.

Jewish Community Action is happy to say that Progress by Pesach has been overwhelmingly embraced by the American Jewish community.

This is overstating the case. What is true is that the far-Left organizations spearheading Perfidy By Pesach have, horrifically, received endorsement from mainstream Jewish organizations.

While I don’t personally understand how Jews should have a right to dictate immigration policy unilaterally — despite quote after quote recited to me about The Stranger – perhaps I am just a bit slow. There are many far-Left ideas whose logic I have never been able to quite get my little shtetl-head around.

But let’s leave the elusive reasoning of the far-Left aside for the moment, and see if, indeed, has Progress By Pesach been “overwhelmingly embraced by the American Jewish community.”

Well…let’s see. There are millions of American Jews…and Perfidy has collected a total of…1,600 signatures. Now, that might sound pretty overwhelming indeed, except there are some…irregularities.

Looking at these signatures, I found a couple of strange things. I sure hope Obama looks at this list carefully, because some of these people voted, well…twice.

325 February 28, 2009 Matt Dallek Washington, DC
324 February 28, 2009 Matt Dallek Washington, DC

192 February 25, 2009 Dragos Morar Chicago, IL
191 February 25, 2009 Dragos Morar Chicago, IL

84 February 05, 2009 Rachel Maisler Silver Spring, MD
83 February 05, 2009 Rachel Maisler Silver Spring, MD
289 February 26, 2009 margy nurik bethesda, MD
288 February 26, 2009 margy nurik bethesda, MD

82 February 05, 2009 Lauren Gross Washington, DC
81 February 05, 2009 Lauren Gross Washington, DC

Since many of these are in order, it seems there may have been a computer glitch. I guess HIAS didn’t have time to fix it yet. I’m sure they will. Especially when the signers didn’t even remember to put in their names.

89 February 05, 2009 ,
88 February 05, 2009 ,

The good thing is, to represent the Jewish community on this issue, apparently, you don’t even have to be Jewish!

321 February 27, 2009 Aldo Ramos Brooklyn Center, MN

Since these two weren’t in order, I am giving the benefit of the doubt that there are two Jews with the name Andres Xu, who both happen to live in Brooklyn.

233 February 25, 2009 ANDRES XU Brooklyn, NY
14 January 29, 2009 ANDRES XU Brooklyn, NY

Apparently, some Hispanics have secret Sephardic ancestry, which I am guessing they discovered at the same time they came across this petition.

278 February 26, 2009 lina rodriguez atlanta, GA

And you don’t have to live in the U.S. to represent American Jewry.

290 February 26, 2009 Sivan Efrat Tel Aviv, ot
281 February 26, 2009 Aaron Levy Toronto, ON

Only the first few hundred were visible. For the sake of transparency, I’m hoping that Perfidy will have an independent organization monitor their final list before they submit it. But I probably wouldn’t bet on it.

Progress By Pesach notes,

1600 + signatures collected, we still need 8,400 more to reach our goal of 10,000

Oh, I’m guessing they’ll get those, come hell or high water. But they may not be Jews, they may not be Americans, they may not be unique signatures, and they may not even have signed any name at all.

It doesn’t matter. They will continue to claim to speak for all of us.