United Torah Judaism Appeals to Arab Voters
Reported: 13:10 PM - Feb/09/09
(IsraelNN.com) The United Torah Judaism party is trying to appeal to Arab voters who feel Israel is Our Home leader Avigdor Lieberman is racist. Party activists distributed flyers in Arabic with the title “Ultra-Orthodox Jews for Equality,” according to Yediot Achronot.
UTJ MK Moshe Gefni explained, “We are against racism. We are for the Torah, in which it is written, ‘You should love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.’” Gefni also explained that his party is against Lieberman’s idea of a law which would require citizens to be loyal to the state.
