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Sean Spicer’s Very Unfortunate Holocaust Remarks

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By Phoebe Maltz Bovy April 11, 2017

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A highlight, if you could call it that (and I don’t think you could), of being a non-observant Jew on Passover is that I’ve been online to witness, in real Twitter time, President Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer’s cascade of unfortunate, seemingly ill-informed Holocaust references.

Did Hitler use chemical weapons? Yes. Against his own people? Also yes.

Is this even still a discussion, in 2017? Evidently yes. I’d ask a fourth question but I’m too stunned at the moment to continue this line of thought.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy edits the Sisterhood, and can be reached at [email protected]. She is the author of “The Perils Of ‘Privilege’”, from St. Martin’s Press. Follow her on Twitter, @tweetertation

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog at the Forward. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including The New Republic and The Atlantic. Her book, “The Perils of ‘Privilege,’” was published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017. She has a PhD in French and French Studies from New York University, and has read a lot of 19th century French Jewish newspapers for a 21st century American.