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ADL Urges Santorum to Repudiate Hitler Reference
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The Honorable Rick Santorum
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20010
Dear Senator Santorum:
We write to object in the strongest terms to your reference to Adolf Hitler in the context of a political debate on judicial nominations on the floor of the Senate today.
Whatever your views on the Senate rules relating to the use of the filibuster and judicial nominations, it is utterly inappropriate and insensitive to suggest that Democratic Party tactics in any way resemble actions taken by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Suggesting some kind of "equivalence" between these tactics and statements and actions of Adolf Hitler demonstrates a profound lack of understanding as to who Hitler was and what he and his regime represented.
We urge you to repudiate your remarks and apologize to the American people for distorting an important issue with such an inappropriate comparison to Hitler and the Holocaust. However heated the debate over issues of the day, we would urge you to refrain from using Holocaust imagery in the future.
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Sincerely,
Abraham H. Foxman
National Director
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