A major Kentucky newspaper ran an op-ed on National Holocaust Remembrance Day telling the Jewish people that they “have no monopoly on persecution and atrocities.”
Although the January 27 memorial focuses on the monumental tragedy of six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany during World War II, the Courier-Journal — part of the USA Today Network owned by parent company Gannet — lectured that the Day should be used to commemorate “every genocide” for the sake of inclusion.
The op-ed, titled “Holocaust Memorial Day is a Time to Remember More Than an Atrocity,” warned that the fixation on the Holocaust during such a commemoration causes people to “reflect on the horrors of the past and… negating and downplaying the injustices of today. ”
It also made a point of reminding readers that “Hitler was just one of many dictators.”
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(Original caption) 12/27/1945 – Warsaw, Poland – arms raised above heads, faces white with fear. A group of Polish women and children wait to be taken away by SA men during the Nazi destruction of Warsaw in 1943. Photo taken by an SS commander. A report to his superiors was presented at the Nuremberg trials as evidence of Nazi terror in the Polish capital. BPA 2 #5611 (Getty Images)
The claims made in the play were blasted on Twitter for being insensitive and obscuring the memorial of those killed with the progressives’ “general identity grievance.”
The commentary, written by the outlet’s five Holocaust Memorial Day influencers, began by declaring: “As a Louisville rabbi recently said, the 27 religions, races and genders, all the acts that have been committed in the past and the continue to this day.”
The play then made a much more controversial remark, stating, “Jews do not have a monopoly on persecution and atrocities.”
The remainder of the play was like a mini-lecture for people to focus solely on the Jewish people during the memorial service. It suggested that by doing so, they were keeping other races, religions and beliefs in check.
The comment added: “To assert for one group, for one person, that the hatred and violence against them is more important than that of another only encourages more acts of violence against others, including Black, Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, LGBTQ+ , Transgender and Native American. This list is incomplete.”
“When we as a community focus on just one religion, just one event, we negate and downplay the horrors of the past and the injustices of today,” the opinion leaders continued.
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They added: “International Holocaust Day is not just a mantra about a Jewish holocaust, but about every genocide, every mass tyranny perpetrated against any group based on race, religion, gender identity and ethnic background.”
The play also commented: “Hitler was just one of many dictators.
After continuing to state the obvious that there was more than one evil person in the story, the article ended by calling on readers to “be brave and protest violence against others and recognize that hate speech becomes hate violence.” .
Although Twitter users were neither impressed nor inspired by this comment.
Jewish conservative and prominent Twitter user Noam Blum demolished the piece on the social media platform. He tweeted a picture of the article with the caption, “Brain-freak progressives can never condemn anti-Semitism without burying it in a mountain of common identity grievances.”
Actress and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman urged the play’s writers to return to their history books on the subject. She tweeted: “You haven’t done your journalistic diligence, have you? They have no idea about the Jewish final solution of the Third Reich, the extermination of a race. Do some homework and start by following @AuschwitzMuseum @HolocaustUK and @simonwiesenthal.”
User David Gaw reminded the authors: “No, Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day to commemorate the Holocaust.
In response to the headline, NBC News social media editor Evan Rosenfeld claimed, “No, no, it’s not.”
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FILE – Pictured this Saturday, December 7, 2019, are the train tracks in Oswiecim, Poland, as hundreds of thousands of people arrived to be escorted to the gas chambers at the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz Birkenau, or Auschwitz II. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file) (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Gabriel Hays is Associate Editor at Fox News Digital.