is ishaan tharoor a foreign affairs reporter for , the "washington post." recent piece is headlined, "yes, the comparison between jewish and syrian refugees matters." we welcome you both to democracy now! ishaan tharoor, talk about the original piece he wrote for "washington post" that went viral. more than 2.5 million hits on this one piece. >> good morning, amy. thank you for having us on. that piece i wrote based on the tweets you cited by peter shulman, the academic, went viral. it was last week around this time. it struck a nerve. this is just in the aftermath of the paris attacks. a moment when the conversation about refugees is just warming up in the u.s. and it was a simple piece citing these polls and the way in which public opinion then seemed to reflect public opinion now. the analogy between what we saw in the 1930's and what we are going through right now is obviously in a perfect one. obviously, no one is completely drawing an identical aril between jewish refugees and syrian refugees and syrian refugees. the point is, of course, that t respon