Michigan AG Nessel Saying Jews Must Place The Needs of The World Above Our Own Survival is a Suicide Note

In an address to the Michigan Jewish Democratic Caucus yesterday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel stated:

We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival.

Mind you, this is the same individual who only last month publicly made it known she did not feel safe attending her own party's state convention.

It is clear to me that Nessel will endorse Abdul El-Sayed after his so-called apology to Jewish Democrats over his equivocation on the terrorist attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

Given her role as Michigan's top law enforcement officer, it is dereliction of duty for her to tell Jews to set aside our very survival. 

How exactly are the needs of the world incompatible with the survival of the Jewish people?

And where is the morality in sacrificing our survival and that of our children?

She is telling Jews we have nothing to offer the world and are thus expendable.

As Rabbi Hillel asked, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?"

Nessel is giving Jews a false choice. Her declaration amounts to a suicide note for the Jewish people. 

She also displays a remarkable ignorance about Judaism by misrepresenting the story of Queen Esther:

It is perhaps up to us now to follow in her path and sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people in exchange for the opportunity to save the rest of humanity.

Except that Esther did not sacrifice the future of her own people to save humanity. She saved the Jews of Persia from a pogrom at the hands of Haman by having an audience with King Asasuerus without being summoned, an act punishable by death. Esther's intervention allowed the Jews to defend themselves from Haman. Jews celebrate this triumph during Purim.

Yet, by Nessel's logic, Esther saving her fellow Jews failed to consider the needs of the world at the time. If Nessel has such as a fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of Purim, I shudder to think how she understands Chanukah and Passover. 

Then again, for Dana Nessel, being a Democrat in good standing with Abdul El-Sayed is more important than being Jewish in good standing with G-d.