The Anti-Defamation League Is Offering Sean Spicer Remedial Holocaust Lessons
Source: Huffington Post
04/13/2017 07:05 pm ET
We believe a few hours learning this history will help you understand where you went wrong, the ADL said.
By Antonia Blumberg
White House press secretary Sean Spicer kicked off the Jewish holiday of Passover with comments many have described as by-the-book Holocaust-denial. Now, the Anti-Defamation League is offering Spicer and his colleagues remedial lessons in Holocaust awareness to ensure it doesnt happen again.
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Spicer compared Syrian President Bashar Assad to German dictator Adolf Hitler, who, according to Spicer, didnt even sink to using chemical weapons.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, sent Spicer a letter on Thursday offering to conduct a training on Holocaust awareness for the press secretary and his staff.
When the first days of Passover ended and we turned on our phones and televisions yesterday evening, we learned about your comment that Hitler did not gas his own people, Greenblatt wrote in the letter, published on ADLs website. Your comparisons between Assad and Hitler were not only historically inaccurate but they also were inappropriate and offensive.
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