Holocaust Museum Urges Lawmakers Not To ‘Turn Our Backs’ on Refugees

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: Mediaite

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum released a rare political statement Thursday, calling on lawmakers to refrain from turning their “backs on the thousands of legitimate refugees.”

“Acutely aware of the consequences to Jews who were unable to flee Nazism, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum looks with concern upon the current refugee criss,” the statement reads, calling upon “public figures and and citizens to avoid condemning today’s refugees as a group.”

The statement notes many of the refugees are fleeing persecution and “in some cases elimination on the basis of their identity” by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and ISIS.

Cameron Hudson, director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the Holocaust Museum, told Bloomberg that refugees who are fleeing crisis “are looking to the U.S. to be the shining city on the hill.”

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/holocaust-museum-urges-lawmakers-not-to-turn-our-backs-on-refugees/

[Iliyah]

1. K & R

[COLGATE4]

2. +1

[mpcamb]

3. Well said. And a cut above so much else that's been said publicly by "leaders".

[NuclearDem]

4. Voyage of the Damned, the MS St Louis.

908 Jewish refugees turned away.

[MrBig]

5. I was very happy to read this

I've been very dismayed this past week seeing fellow Jews on social media making dubious distinctions between the Jewish plight in the early stages of the Holocaust and the current refugee crisis.

Holocaust education is so important precisely for times like these.

[Person 2713]

6. +1