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pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 12:05 AM Jan 2017

NCR: DT's statement on the Holocaust remembrance does not mention JEWS,

specifically, the death of 6 million Jews.

From the National Catholic Reporter:

https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/trump-statement-holocaust-remembrance-does-not-mention-jews

In a departure from previous years, President Donald Trump’s statement on Jan. 27 marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day does not say anything about the deaths of six million Jews — a lapse the head of the Anti-Defamation League called “puzzling and troubling.”

The White House statement with Trump’s remarks “misses that it was six million Jews who perished, not just 'innocent people,’” tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the ADL shortly after the comments were released.

SNIP
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the United Nations in 2005 to commemorate the deaths of the six million Jews as well as an estimated two million Roma and thousands of disabled and gay people at the hands of the Nazis.

SNIP

But Greenblatt noted that both Republican and Democratic presidents — including all of Obama’s statements on the occasion — always clearly highlighted the centrality of the genocide of the Jewish people on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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