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Following Laura Loomer’s lead, the US is repeating an egregious Holocaust-era mistake
As an Israeli-American, I was raised with deep awareness of how the horrors of the Nazi killing machine were compounded by the refusal of countries outside of Europe to see the humanity of Jewish refugees. The United States was no exception. Strict quotas, put in place by xenophobic politicians in Washington, restricted entry.
The case of the MS St Louis is perhaps the most painful example of this callousness. In 1939, the ship sailed to North America from Hamburg, with 937...