Brooklyn pols express shock at Trump Holocaust statement
President makes no mention of Jews on Remembrance Day
A decision by President Donald Trump to omit references to the suffering of Jews at the hands of Nazis in his official statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day is still having ramifications in Brooklyn as two of the borough’s lawmakers expressed shock and outrage over the omission.
Assemblymember Dov Hikind and state Sen. Daniel Squadron both issued statements highly critical of the Trump administration.
“It is utterly horrendous and unconscionable for President Trump and his administration to omit Jews from the text of his statement when talking about International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust was undoubtedly a systematic attempt to annihilate the Jewish people, and the failure to acknowledge that is a desecration of their memory,” said Hikind (D-Borough Park-Midwood), whose parents were Holocaust survivors.