ADL to GOP: ‘Forcefully’ condemn Holocaust imagery

[Behind the Aegis]

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Anti-Defamation League is urging Republican congressional leaders to "condemn forcefully the invocation of Holocaust imagery" at last week's rally against health care reform.

In a letter sent to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and other Republican members of Congress who spoke at last week's event, ADL national director Abraham Foxman said he was "deeply disappointed at the failure of the Republican leadership to speak out" against comparisons of health-care reform to Nazi Germany."

The "Tea Party" crowd included attendees holding a pair of large banners picturing Holocaust victims with the words "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945."

"As the world’s leading organization fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, the Anti-Defamation League is nonpartisan and has no position on the issues underlying the health care debate," wrote Foxman. "However, we believe that the use of Nazi symbols and pictures of Nazi victims to advance a political agenda under any circumstance is inappropriate and profoundly offensive."

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[SacredCow]

1. That was some unbelievably sick shit, there....

Just when you think they've hit bottom, they find a new basement to explore.

[LeftishBrit]

2. I fail to see how even in a right-winger's mind...

health care can equate with genocide.

It is absolutely sick to use this imagery in any case.

[Alcibiades]

3. Go ADL!

I was a bit miffed at them for demanding an apology from Grayson, but what the Republicans did was far, far worse (not that anything Grayson said was actually bad), so they should do much more demanding.

[Judi Lynn]

4. They should NEVER have had to be asked to refrain from their filthy tactics. n/t

[elleng]

5. 'And, Mr. Cantor, you in particular should know better.'

[butterfly77]

6. Kick..

[santamargarita]

7. The Republicans, namely Prescott Bush, helped build the Nazi War Machine

Apologize for something they helped create?

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Behind the Aegis.