More than 75,000 Jews throughout the Keystone state got an email last Thursday from the "Republican Federal Committee of PA � Victory 2008? that compares a victory by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to Nazi victories before the Holocaust.
The e-mail suggested that a vote for Barack Obama would be a "tragic mistake," and "Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision," adding that "many of our ancestors ignored similar warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s.�Let's not make a similar one this year!"
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reports that a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice is apologizing for signing the e-mail.
Sandra Schultz Newman says she regrets that she didn't review the final draft more carefully before it was released.
Newman says "Some of the language was inappropriate and intemperate." And she's apologizing to anyone who was offended by what she describes as "this misguided e-mail."
Meanwhile, Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, issued the following statement:
Ugly, divisive personal attacks against a candidate for any political office should never be acceptable, and using Holocaust analogies is completely beyond the pale.�
Regardless of which candidate one supports, it is shocking and profoundly distressing that anyone would see fit to make such an odious, false and repugnant analogy.� Not only does it further debase the level of our political discourse, but it also diminishes and trivializes the virulent anti-Semitism and Nazi aggression that led to the slaughter of six million Jews and millions of others.
We hope that the signatories of this letter and those responsible for its dissemination will repudiate its message and apologize to both the candidate and the Jewish community.
(Moshe Altusky - YWN)
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