How Do Jews Feel About Dick Durbin’s Outrageous Remarks?
Yesterday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) “called on Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) to repudiate his remarks and apologize to the American people for distorting an important issue, with an inappropriate comparison to Nazi tactics.”
Letter from the ADL to Sen. Dick Durbin:
Dear Senator Durbin:We write to object to your reference to Nazis in the context of the debate on detainees at Guantanamo Bay on the Senate floor earlier this week.
Whatever your views on the treatment of detainees and alleged excesses at the Guantanamo Bay facility, it is inappropriate and insensitive to suggest that actions by American troops in any way resemble actions taken by Nazis in their treatment of prisoners. Suggesting some kind of equivalence between their interrogation tactics demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about the horrors that Hitler and his regime actually perpetrated.
We urge you to repudiate your remarks and apologize to the American people for distorting an important issue with an inappropriate comparison to Nazi tactics. However heated the debate over issues of the day, we would urge you to refrain from using Holocaust imagery in the future.
Well said.
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) agrees:
“Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) should retract and apologize for remarks he made on the Senate floor on June 14th comparing American treatment of enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay with what was done “by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others.”Once again, a Democratic leader has misused the memory of Nazi atrocities to make a political point. It is unacceptable and it is deeply distressing that Senator Durbin refuses to apologize for his outrageous remarks.”
Contact Senator Durbin’s office at (202) 224-2152 or to go online to his web form and send him email asking him to apologize for his offensive remarks.
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