My grandfather snuck into the US in 1920 when there were severe restrictions on Jewish immigration. He was leaving behind a life of Tsarism and Bolshevism. Fifteen years later he was able to leave for Canada and reenter the US legally. I find it difficult to make excuses why others cannot partake of what the US has to offer under these circumstances. Nor am I fearful that the sky is falling now that the bulk of immigration is not from Europe, the people's skin is a little darker than in the past, and people like John Derbyshire are around to scare pluralism and dignity right out of America.

Are we really to believe "the entire Muslim world is currently hostile to us, and inclined to express its hostility in acts of civil terror..."? I don't think so. But I do think it's a good ploy for Mr. Derbyshire to make the claim, as if he's some sort of friend of the Jewish people. Hardly. Were we to follow his directive we would be betraying 2000 years of our history. It's hard enough to swallow Zionist anti-nativism and its worship of land and dominion. But Derbyshire believes we should jump on the bandwagon and become jerks like all those who have plagued us over the centuries.