{"id":79475,"date":"2015-11-16T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79475"},"modified":"2015-11-16T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:21:41","slug":"the-jewish-imperative-to-help-syrian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79475","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Imperative To Help Syrian Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/schwyzer\/posts\/10153109005267443\">Hugo Schwyzer writes on FB<\/a>: In 1938, my Jewish grandparents fled Austria for England with my young father and his sister. The rest of the family perished in the Holoicaust.<br \/>\nWhen war broke out in 1939 my grandfather was briefly interned as an enemy alien, My father, who was then the age my daughter is now, was beaten up in school and called a &#8220;dirty Nazi.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe schoolyard bullies who tormented my daddy made the same mistake that the right-wing makes today: refusing to make distinctions between those escaping fanaticism and the fanatics themselves.<br \/>\nAs the son of refugees who owes his very existence to the willingness of an ostensibly Christian country to accept a destitute family from a different faith, I want Syrians to be welcome here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Schwyzer writes on FB: In 1938, my Jewish grandparents fled Austria for England with my young father and his sister. The rest of the family perished in the Holoicaust. 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