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
If Syrian Refugees Are the New Jews, Who Are the New Nazis?
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?
Subscribe to Continue Reading
Get the best Jewish ideas and conversations. Subscribe to Tikvah Ideas All Access for $12/month
Login or SubscribeFebruary 3, 2017
Stirring up Arab Outrage against a Move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem May Not be So Easy
Empty threats.
How the Islamic Enlightenment Came and Went
How 19th- and 20th-century Muslim intellectuals, clerics, and rulers attempted to come to terms with Western civilization.
With a Former Chief Rabbi in Jail, It’s Time for Israel to Rethink the Institution
The rabbinate has lost its constituency and is losing respect as well.
Judaism Returns to Sicily
Over 500 years after its expulsion.