DNC: Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Is Same As Turning Away Jews in 1939

Townhall.com ^ | December 5, 2015 | Cortney O'Brien

[Kaslin]

The Democratic National Committee cannot tolerate Republican rhetoric against the Obama administration's Syrian refugee plan. Rejecting these migrants is equal, in Debbie Wasserman Schultz's eyes, to America's turning away Jews in 1939, forcing them back into Nazi territory.

"We have seen this movie before. In May 1939, the SS St. Louis left Hamburg, Germany carrying more than 900 passengers, nearly all of them Jewish and seeking refuge in the United States. Our country turned them away, and many who were sent back to mainland Europe were killed in the Holocaust. Instead of learning from that mistake Republican candidates and politicians were eager to repeat it."

Schultz continued to chastise Republicans for their "out-of-touch" anti-refugee agenda, going so far as to say it "undermines" one's faith as a Jew.

"Demonizing and scapegoating refugees not only betrays our values as a nation, it undermines our faith as Jews." 

A few notes here. First, the main argument against allowing thousands of Syrian refugees into the country is not borne out of racist stereotypes it is borne out of concern for protecting our homeland. Sadly, Syria seems to be a hotbed of terrorism. How are we to know terrorists or terrorist sympathizers aren't feigning to be refugees as a means to enter into the U.S. to commit more barbaric acts? 

The Jewish people were not waging a global jihad. They had no ill feelings toward America. Can we say the same for the thousands of refugees about to spill across our border?

[Cicero]

Our country turned them away

His Socialist Highness, FDR, turned them away.

[gaijin]

They hate you but they ARE you...?

My head hurts.

[LeoWindhorse]

BS

[IronJack]

Yeah, because the Jews fleeing Nazi persecution were known for slaughtering innocents, waging internal war against their homeland, and forcing their beliefs on everyone they encountered.

Nice false equivalency argument there, DNC.

[Arm_Bears]

The Jews weren’t coming here to kill us.

[rdcbn]

Turning down asylum for the Syrian “ refugees” is more like letting in ex Nazi SS members, concentration camp guards and Nazi party members after the fall of Berlin in 1945

[Lil Flower]

The Jewish people weren’t blowing people up!! They weren’t trying to murder the entire human race save Muslims! Worse straw man argument I’ve ever seen!

[dp0622]

What you said.

[Dallas59]

These new “Jews” would like to destroy the Constitution and force everyone to their religion or else it’s off with your head!

[Mollypitcher1]

Double BS!!

[dfwgator]

Turning down asylum for the Syrian “ refugees” is more like letting in ex Nazi SS members, concentration camp guards and Nazi party members after the fall of Berlin in 1945

Well if only some of those Syrians were rocket scientists.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Too bad. Expulsion and the forbidding of entry into OUR country are the only rational solutions. The appeals to pity must be ignored.

[laplata]

Yeah, because the Jews fleeing Nazi persecution were known for slaughtering innocents, waging internal war against their homeland, and forcing their beliefs on everyone they encountered.

Nice false equivalency argument there, DNC.

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Progressives/liberals know that so many people are ignorant of history and have been dumbed down that they can get away with using these dishonest tactics to further their agenda.

[kaehurowing]

No, this is the same as if the Nazis were trying to invade the U.S. and we stopped them.

[ColdOne]

I have read all those books about how in 1939 those Jews burned people alive in cages. Drowned people alive in cages, had their 7 year old boys behead men. Also how they raped repeatedly 6 year old girls. How they killed a woman by impaling her head with a Crucifix. Hanging men alive upside down then burning them alive...............Do I really need a major sarc tag?

[N. Theknow]

No. It would be like turning away Nazis.

"Demonizing and scapegoating refugees not only betrays our values as a nation, it undermines our faith as Jews Liberals."

[Mastador1]

His Socialist Highness, FDR, turned them away.

Exactly, and unlike the muslims and their best buds the nazis, the Jews had no deep seated desire to slaughter those that disagreed with them.

[Travis McGee]

[TruthWillWin]

How many people were beheaded by Jews in the 1930’s? I suspect 0.