Organization Deeply Sorry It Omitted Jews From Holocaust Message Again

Similar omissions have occurred fifteen times since the Diversity Alliance was launched in 2015, only two thirds of which the group has acknowledged.

New York, October 10 – A political association apologized today for neglecting to include in its list of groups affected by Nazi persecution any mention of the one group Nazis singled out for targeting in their genocidal ideology, for the fifth time this year.

The Diversity Alliance, an umbrella organization of groups fighting facial discrimination and advocating for social justice, sought to demonstrate solidarity among minorities by commemorating the upcoming anniversary of the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto, this October 16. The Alliance’s statement in advance of the 79th anniversary invoked Nazi persecution and killing of Roman, Sinti, Slavs, homosexuals, blacks, the physically or mentally disabled, the infirm, communists, and other populations, but failed to include the one group whom the ghetto specifically isolated from the rest of the Polish population, in preparation for their enslavement and mass murder: Jews. The omission occurred under similar circumstances in January, May, July, and August of 2019 as well, each time sparking objections from Jewish organizations and prompting an apology from the Alliance along with a promise not to repeat the oversight.

“We apologize again to those of the Jewish persuasion for this error,” the group’s message of conciliation read. “We are deeply sorry to have slighted the one group most affected by the Holocaust, and vow to take corrective action so that this type of mistake does not recur, just as we have vowed on at least ten other occasions to take such measures but have apparently not done so.” Similar omissions have occurred fifteen times since the Diversity Alliance was launched in 2015, only two thirds of which the group has acknowledged.

“We are aware that this is the season of penitence and forgiveness in the Jewish calendar,” the statement continued. “Some of our Jewish members and allies have brought to our attention that it might send the wrong message if we not only elide Jewish suffering on the anniversary of an event involving mainly Jewish suffering, but also accuse the Jewish state of imposing the same or worse suffering on Palestinians. In our statement’s final version, our team paid insufficient attention to the former while giving prominence to the latter. While this has become the norm in the social justice movement, that does not excuse insensitivity to Jewish suffering no matter how much those child-killers deserve it.”

“Oh, damn, we did it again, didn’t we,” the apology concluded. “We did not intend to say the quiet part out loud.”

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