Overview
- Vice President JD Vance marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on X with Dachau photos and language that did not explicitly mention Jews or Nazi perpetrators.
- Jewish groups and commentators across the spectrum criticized the omission as erasure and urged leaders to name victims and perpetrators directly.
- Gov. Josh Shapiro told NBC News that Vance “offered comfort” to antisemites and noted the failure to acknowledge the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis.
- A Vance spokesperson dismissed Shapiro’s remarks as politically motivated and hypocritical, pointing out that Shapiro’s own remembrance message also did not explicitly say “Jews.”
- Shapiro later stood by his criticism in a Fox interview, while Vance allies highlighted similar omissions by other officials to argue inconsistent standards.