<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 30px;">Oath of Disloyalty</span><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 30px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 30px;">I am a disloyal Jew. <br>
I am not loyal to a political party. <br>
Nor will I be loyal to dictators and mad kings. <br>
I am not loyal to walls or cages. <br>
I am not loyal to taunts or tweets. <br>
I am not loyal to hatred, to Jew-baiting, to the gloating connivings of white supremacy. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 30px;">I am a disloyal Jew. <br>
I am not loyal to any foreign power.<br>
Nor to abuse of power at home.<br>
I am not loyal to a legacy of conquest, erasure and exploitation.<br>
I am not loyal to stories that tell me who I should hate. <br>
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I am a loyal Jew. <br>
I am loyal to the inconveniences of kindness. <br>
I am loyal to the dream of justice.<br>
I am loyal to this suffering Earth <br>
And to all life.<br>
I am not loyal to any founding fathers. <br>
But I am loyal to the children who will come <br>
And to the quality of world we leave them. <br>
I am not loyal to what America has become. <br>
But I am loyal to what America could be. <br>
I am loyal to Emma Lazarus. To huddled masses.<br>
To freedom and welcome, <br>
Holiness, hope and love.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 30px;"><br>
</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 30px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Irwin Keller</span></p></div></div></body></html>