If Syrian Refugees Are the New Jews, Who Are the New Nazis?
America’s shame is worse than anything that the protesters imagine.
February 3, 2017
America’s shame is worse than anything that the protesters imagine.
Last summer, the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof declared that “Anne Frank today is like a Syrian girl.” Such comparisons have become quite commonplace over the past week. But, wonders Lee Smith, if, according to this analogy, Syrians civilians are like Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and Donald Trump is like Franklin D. Roosevelt (whose government turned away many Jews fleeing Europe), then who are the Nazis?
America’s shame is worse than anything that the protesters imagine.
Empty threats.
How 19th- and 20th-century Muslim intellectuals, clerics, and rulers attempted to come to terms with Western civilization.
The rabbinate has lost its constituency and is losing respect as well.
Over 500 years after its expulsion.
Last summer, the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof declared that “Anne Frank today is like a Syrian girl.” Such comparisons have become quite commonplace over the past week. But, wonders Lee Smith, if, according to this analogy, Syrians civilians are like Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and Donald Trump is like Franklin D. Roosevelt (whose government turned away many Jews fleeing Europe), then who are the Nazis?
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