Yoffie asks Hagee for “explanation”
Rabbi Eric Yoffie of the Union for Reform Judaism asks John Hagee for an explanation of his sermon thanking Hitler for helping Jews create Israel and asserting that the Holocaust was God’s way of punishing the Jews for not going to Israel in the first place:
I am aware of the work that you have done on behalf of the State of Israel, and for that reason I find your remarks especially troubling. Please help me explain to the members of my movement the statements attributed to you. Are these sentiments representative of your current feelings and perceptions of the Jewish people and the people of Israel? Were they at one time representative? Have you in some way been grossly misquoted? Are these views which you have now repudiated?
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