JD Vance ‘forgot’ to mention the Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day

American Thinker ^ | January 29, 2026 | Robin M. Itzler

[ChessExpert]

This is just one more example of a Tucker-Carlson-esque pattern of doing anything he can to avoid showing sympathy to Israel and the Jews. ...

Vance: "Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path."

[ckilmer]

But it does lay down another marker trail against Vance after what’s her name. That earlier one was pro Rubio. Who does this ine actually favor?

[CrimsonTidegirl]

I would like for people to pay attention to the very first Holocaust of the Twentieth century: The Genocide of the Armenians committed by the Ottoman Turks.

That event receives no attention.

[wardaddy]

Robin Itzler

No agenda there for sure

But this rag has some nuggets

This is very good

Pretty much my perspective of 68 years watching knowing and even intimacy with Jews

The why?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/how_does_anyone_explain_liberal_jews.html

[CrimsonTidegirl]

Belarusians, too!

[dfwgator]

This is not considered a part of the “Holocaust”:

August 22, 1939:

I have issued the command — and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad — that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

-Adolf Hitler

[dforest]

I am tired of the right demonizing everyone and tearing up the efforts to save THIS country over things like this. Pick apart everyone. We know who was involved in the holocaust for God’s sake.

We have no hope as long as this kind of thing keeps up.

[ckilmer]

Actually in the popular mind that’s not well known

[wardaddy]

One thing I say here a lot

The Shoah card is waning being held up by oldsters like here with closer memories to it

Young people and I’m around scores just don’t bend the knee in tempering criticism of Jewish actions or politics

Whereas as we sure always have

Inundated by it though the presentation of it in media and film really got more in the 70s on

Before that it was presented but in unusual ways

That mini series with Moriarty and Woods and Streep 1977 really imprinted like Roots did

Plus World at War series

Spielberg biggest imprint likely

And oddly Tarantino too but from different angle almost cartoonish

[MayflowerMadam]

“Perhaps it is Vance’s relationship with Tucker Carlson that causes people to look at things more closely.”

There’s been some chatter about that relationship, and how it will harm Vance’s run for POTUS unless he renounces Tucker.

I moved to the Rubio side when it was clear that Tucker is a BFF of Vance.

[dfwgator]

For me it was War And Remembrance, those scenes I will never forget.

[NFHale]

It’s completely ignored.

One of my dearest friends in the world is of Armenian ancestry; his grandfather actually fought the bastards before getting out of the area and coming here.

[dfwgator]

In Israel itself, the subject of The Holocaust was not talked about, until The Eichmann Trial was televised in the 1960s.

[dfwgator]

And then there’s what the Ukrainians did to the Poles.

[T-Bird45]

“…refused to take it because he was politically savvy enough not to board a sinking ship.”

What’s the “politically savvy” quotient when the Harris campaign vetting process includes the questions about his interactions with Israeli agents, as revealed by Shapiro in his recent book? It doesn’t seem to take a large amount of discernment to figure out you want nothing to do with that sort.

Of course, it could reinforce the potential for him to move to the center for a possible 2028 run but I don’t believe most D-rats are capable of really changing their basic nature. It probably wouldn’t bring him the $$$$ or following necessary to succeed in a multi-candidate primary. That would be the true test of political savvy if he can resolve that bit of political calculation. Otherwise, he’s your typical northeastern liberal democrat, just a younger Chuck Schumer who might actually know how to make a grilled hamburger.

[Mount Athos]

Maybe the editor at American Thinker is in a coma

[ChessExpert]

I believe the Khmer Rouge murdered about a third of the Cambodian population. Bad also.

Of course you can always play with percentages. Mao eliminates an entire village. 100%! But a small percentage of China.

I count people. Anything else is secondary at best.

[Arkady]

The Holocaust has always been understood in this context to be about the concentration camps and the genocide of the Jews.
This post certainly brought out some lovely comments: “Israeli parasites...”. Bit Ironic.
Vance should disown Tucker. Or has Vance been anointed already? Personally, I prefer Rubio at this point.
I read much the same article at Powerline.blog this morning only they included Trump’s statement on the remembrance. Read it and you’ll see a stark difference.

[ChessExpert]

“Why is Israel allowed to have an ethno-state and nobody else does?”

Well, given history, I don’t mind Israel being some kind of ethno-state. If Poland wants to declare itself a Christian nation, I have no problem with that either.

For the US, I think we are too large and populous and diverse for that to work. However, the individual states are different.

The first Amendment rejects the establishment of a national religion. It also rejects interference with the established religion of an individual state. If Texas wants to go Christian and Massachusetts wants to go Catholic, that should be ok legally. Perhaps unwise, but legal.

[ChessExpert]

Because we forgot the genocide of Armenians, the Holodomor happened. Because we forgot the Holodomor, the Holocaust happened.

[spintreebob]

Well said. Speech writers for Vance need to be aware of specifics that the audience can relate to. The audience does not relate to abstract generalities.