ADL chair: If Trump registers Muslims, I’ll sign up

Addressing reports that Donald Trump’s transition team is considering creating a registry of Muslims in the United States, ADL chaif Jonathan Greenblatt pledges that he would sign up as a Muslim.

Speaking at the opening to the Anti-Defamation League’s conference on anti-Semitism in New York, Greenblatt mentions to the apocryphal story about the king of Denmark promising to wear a yellow star if it would be required of the Scandinavian country’s Jews.

“As Jews, we know what it means to be registered, or targeted, held out as different from our fellow citizens,” Greenblatt says. “We as Jews know the right and just response. I pledge to you right here and now, because I’m committed to the fight against anti-Semitism, if one day American Muslims will be forced to register their identity, that is the day this proud Jew will register as a Muslim.”

— JTA