Giuliani’s ‘Human Rights and Freedom Advisor’ Expressed Racist Attitude Re Arab Birth Rate

Law professor Peter Berkowitz is one of Giuliani’s neoconservative braintrust: "his Senior Statecraft, Human Rights and Freedom Advisor." In a piece in the Weekly Standard a couple of years ago, the new human rights and freedom advisor expressed grave concern about the Israeli Arab birth rate at a time when western Jews aren’t emigrating to Israel. He said that Arab birth rates are a "threat" to Israel’s "political sovereignty and territorial integrity" and came out for a policy aimed at curbing subsidies to large families, thereby limiting Arab birth rates in the Jewish state. It’s hard not to describe this attitude as racist. Does Rudy Giuliani endorse such family-planning policies?

From the 2004 piece. First Berkowitz echoed, without demurral, Netanyahu’s concern about demographic threats to Israel:

If Arab inhabitants are wonderfully integrated and their
numbers increase to 35-40 percent of the total inhabitants of the state, then
the Jewish state will have been abolished, and it will have turned into a binational state. If their numbers remain at about 20
percent, as they are today, or fall, but relations are stiff, contentious, and
violent, this too will hurt our democratic character. Therefore, we need a
policy that balances these two needs. First of all, it is necessary to assure a
Jewish majority in

Israel

.

Berkowitz then goes through a bunch of demographic number issues before issuing his own policy recommendation, one that would "encourage a family size among Arab citizens more
consistent with the developed-world social and economic life available in

Israel

."