On Monday, in the wake of comments by Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and a statement made by a Museum staff historian that analogized the situation on the United States southern border to Nazi concentration camps, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum fired off a statement denouncing the practice. The Museum stated that it “unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary. That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum’s official statement on the matter – a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now.”
The Museum’s original statement, released on December 12, 2018, stated:
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