The way the US and other countries abandoned Jews to genocide was shameful.

And I do think that Western countries (such as the US and my own country of Australia) should take more refugees, including Syrian refugees.

However, I'd question the parallel the article tries to draw between between victims and survivors of the Holocaust and contemporary Syrian refugees – every Jew fleeing the Nazi regime was under a very serious risk of falling victim to genocide, whether or not they realised it at the time. By contrast, I don't think the vast majority of Syrian refugees are fleeing genocide. While genocide has been occurring in Syria (e.g. ISIS' genocide of Yazidis), the actual or potential victims of those genocides are a small minority of the total Syrian refugee population.