Mark Jacobson

Mark R. Jacobson served as the first Deputy NATO Senior Civilian Representative – Afghanistan and is an assistant dean at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

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The U.S. Turned Away Jewish Refugees in 1939. We Must Not Repeat History With Afghans Fleeing the Taliban

In May 1939, more than 900 Jewish refugees boarded the MS St. Louis in Hamburg, hoping to flee Nazi Germany for the relative safety of Cuba. Due to the restrictive immigrant quota system in the...

By Frank Sobchak and Mark Jacobson
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