Trump's Holocaust Remembrance Day statement condemns murder of Jews
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAN FABIAN - 01/26/18 12:03 PM EST
President Trump on Friday marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by mourning the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide.
“We take this opportunity to recall the Nazis’ systematic persecution and brutal murder of six million Jewish people,” Trump said in a statement. “On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we acknowledge this dark stain on human history and vow to never let it happen again.”
It’s a change from Trump’s official statement last year, which made no mention of Jews or anti-Semitism.
The omission in 2017 angered Jewish groups, which called it a troubling distortion of the history of the Holocaust. It also fueled accusations that Trump has not done enough to speak out against racism and anti-Semitism.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/370889-trumps-holocaust-remembrance-day-statement-condemns-murder-of-jews
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