Downplaying the Truth: In The Jewish Journal, Peter Himmelman argues that public figures invoking the tragedy and horrors of the Holocaust without including that Jews were specifically targeted are not just doing a disservice to the memory of the victims but distorting history. “Again and again, Hitler framed Jews as the carriers of an idea that threatened his ability to dominate: that law stands above rulers, that truth exists outside power, that the weak have moral standing, that the wise use of restraint is strength. These were the very ideas Nazism sought to destroy. The murder of Jews was therefore not incidental to the Nazi project. It was its metaphysical center.” [JewishJournal]