DNC Staff Pained at Having to Commemorate the Holocaust

“This is about remembering the Holocaust. Never forget.”

Emails revealed by Wikileaks show that the staffers at the Democrat National Committee appeared annoyed at having to acknowledge the Holocaust.

Former Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz sent out an email to her employees about putting out a statement on Yom Hashoah. Yom Hashoah is known as Holocaust Remembrance day.

DNC senior communications director Ryan Banfill forwarded the email to staffer Kate Houghton, writing, “Flagging for you. The chair is asking for a statement on Yom Hashoah.”

“We aren’t going to do statements for every Jewish holiday unless she wants to do them for every religious holiday and trust me, this Catholic can give you a list of them,” Houghton replied. “Also when she does an official statement it makes very little sense to have two statements out there in her voice.”

Banfill appeared to send a sarcastic response: “This is about remembering the Holocaust. Never forget.”

“Yup… or Darfur or Armenia or Rwanda or Bosnia (which PS is where my husband served),” Houghton replied. “Does she want us to do one for each other those remembrance days as well?”

Following the release of the leaked emails, Wasserman Schultz stepped down as chairwoman of the party immediately prior to the Democrat National Convention. No word on whether any staffers have been fired or disciplined.

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