"For strongly identified Jews, the 'vilely discriminatory' actions of immigration restrictionists are part of the lachrymose history of the Jewish people. Immigration restriction from 1924-1965 is in the same category as the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., the marauding Crusaders of the Middle Ages, the horrors of the Inquisition, the evil of the Russian Czar, and the rationally incomprehensible calamity of Nazism. These events are not just images drawn from the dustbin of history. They are deeply held images and potent motivators of contemporary behavior. As Michael Walzer noted, 'I was taught Jewish history as a long tale of exile and persecutionHolocaust history read backwards.' From this perspective, the immigration restriction of 1924-1965 is an important part of the Holocaust because it preventing the emigration of Jews who ultimately died in the Holocausta point that Steinlight dwells on at length."
The Culture of Critique - Kevin McDonald