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The Trump administration’s statement broke a tradition established since the first International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2006
The White House on Friday issued its now annual statement in honor of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the first of the Trump administration.
But the statement, it was quickly noted, only refers to the “depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror” rather than the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. It also makes no mention of anti-semitism or other issues that are usually brought up when discussing the tragedy.
A review of statements issued under Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush — the only two to hold office in the time since the day was founded in 2006 — shows that Greenblatt has a point.
A search of the archived White House website from Bush's years shows that the first year of the commemoration went unobserved. The next year, though, a statement was issued, calling out Holocaust denial — particularly in Iran — and anti-semitism broadly.
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The next year, Bush issued a largely similar statement, but played up his recent visit to Israel’s Holocaust Museum.
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