Left-Wing Activist Slammed by Jewish Org for Claiming Attention Is Only Paid to the Holocaust Because Victims Were European
by Algemeiner Staff
Left-wing activist Shaun King. Photo: Roman Iwasiwka/Flickr.
A prominent left-wing activist was criticized by a top American Jewish organization on Sunday for claiming on social media that the Holocaust is only considered important because its victims were Europeans.
Shaun King, an outspoken supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Black Lives Matter movement, posted on Instagram, “The only reason why people celebrate ‘Christopher Columbus Day’ and never ‘Adolf Hitler Day’ is because Columbus massacred non-europeans [sic].”
In response, the American Jewish Committee tweeted, “Shaun King’s comment is both deeply offensive and blatantly false, fueled by the age-old antisemitic trope of ‘Jewish privilege.’”
“Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis specifically because they were NOT considered white European,” said the AJC.
The group asserted, “King should apologize.”
.@ShaunKing‘s comment is both deeply offensive and blatantly false, fueled by the age-old antisemitic trope of “Jewish privilege.“
Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis specifically because they were NOT considered white European.
King should apologize. pic.twitter.com/Phgc1xZoKh
— American Jewish Committee (@AJCGlobal) October 17, 2021
In 2019, King drew criticism for telling a group of Sanders supporters that the senator had always spoken out for unpopular causes, and then saying, “Even today, he speaks out against apartheid-like conditions in Palestine even though it’s not popular.”
