Anti-Defamation League condemns Pro-McCain Republicans for 'trivializing' the Holocaust

[gatorboy]

McCain just can't seem to get a break lately. :rofl:

http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/anti-defamation-league-condemns-pro.html

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, issued the following statement from Poland, where he is traveling with an Israel Defense Force delegation visiting Auschwitz and other historical sites associated with the Holocaust:

Ugly, divisive personal attacks against a candidate for any political office should never be acceptable, and using Holocaust analogies is completely beyond the pale.

Regardless of which candidate one supports, it is shocking and profoundly distressing that anyone would see fit to make such an odious, false and repugnant analogy. Not only does it further debase the level of our political discourse, but it also diminishes and trivializes the virulent anti-Semitism and Nazi aggression that led to the slaughter of six million Jews and millions of others.

We hope that the signatories of this letter and those responsible for its dissemination will repudiate its message and apologize to both the candidate and the Jewish community.

[frickaline]

1. good, I found it sick. K&R n/t

[RagAss]

2. FINALLY !!!!!! I was steaming waiting for this !!

[rucky]

3. about time!

Sarah Palin is no friend of the Jews.

[sui generis]

4. it has been roundly trivialized for gays and gypsies

among Americans, regardless of religious affiliation. Also, socialists, catholic priests, "phlegmatics", and anyone born with a deformity of body or mind was rounded up and murdered.

Sorry Jewish community: if you aren't trivializing the holocaust yourself, then why don't you ask for an apology for more than just the Jewish community?

[bullwinkle428]

5. The lunatic fringe anti-abortion people always love to toss around "Holocaust"!

:banghead:

[Happyhippychick]

6. This is pretty much exactly what I said yesterday. We Jews don't like the Holocaust to be brought

up lightly. I predicted it would backfire, it will.