Choose the paragraph hom the first five paragraphs that BEST conveys the central idea of the article. Which selection from the article BEST explains why some reject the parallel between Jewish refugees and Syrian refugees?
But the danger Synans face is less because of their religion and more because of the geopolitics that
has put their homes in a war zone. What's more, unlike fears that today's refugees may harbor
terrorists, nobody aboard the St. Louis posed a potential threat.
(6) Jews fed Europe because of discrimination and mistreatment based on their religion, he said, recalling
that just six weeks after his family won entry to the U. S. In 1942 all the remaining Jews in their village
were shipped off to a concentration camp.
It's easily forgotten now, but the 1930s saw widespread disdain for European Jews, Lichtman sald.
Opposition to admitting refugees was heightened by the economic womies left by the Great Depression
Those public attitudes were reinforced by the U. S. State Department and other agencies, which worked
to limit an influx of Jews whom F1 Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled as potential infiltrators, he said.
(D) "No historical parallel is perfect, obviously, says Allan Lichtman, co-author of "FDR and the Jews and a
professor of history at American University