Obama: View Syrian refugees as Jews fleeing the Holocaust

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WASHINGTON—Syrian refugees should be viewed like Jews fleeing the Holocaust, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a frank Tuesday speech aimed at anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment.

Obama delivered the address at an event imbued with meaning: a citizenship ceremony, held in the grand National Archives room where the original Bill of Rights is stored, on the 224th anniversary of the document’s ratification. Though he did not mention the presidential election or his Republican critics, his target was clear.

He used the occasion to remind Americans that almost all of their families were immigrants at some point — and to pointedly remind them of the dark discrimination of the country’s past, from African-American slavery to no-Irish-allowed signs to the ban on Chinese immigration to Japanese-American internment.

His unspoken suggestion: the Islamophobia of the moment could produce decisions just as dangerous.

Obama: View Syrian refugees as Jews fleeing the Holocaust | Toronto Star

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Treat Syrians like Holocaust Jews? in other words, ignore them, deport them, or send them back to their graves? Because back then, America pretty much closed its gates to refugees. Oops.

You mean what the atheist Jews did, and now are sucking every cent yet from Germany. Read my signature.

You're an antisemitic poster. Why should I take you seriously.