Political Quotes

“I want to thank Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania also for coming to the floor this evening. If there is any remaining time, I would just like to read a couple of the sentences of Congressman Boyle's remarks because they are so incredible. He talks about Deborah Lipstadt, an American historian and author of influential books such as ``Denying the Holocaust,'' who wrote an important article in The Atlantic, entitled, ``The Trump Administration's Flirtation With Holocaust Denial.'' He talks about ``'hardcore Holocaust denial.' In this type of rhetoric, anti-Semites argue that the Holocaust simply did not occur; that there was no systematic plan to destroy the Jewish people based solely on their religion. ``This type of hate speech has unfortunately been espoused by those who seek to delegitimize the suffering of the Jewish people since the Holocaust began.'' But he talks about a more insidious form of denial in rhetoric that has begun to creep into our national discussion. Lipstadt terms this ``'softcore Holocaust denial.' This form of denial, argues Lipstadt, uses different tactics but has the same end-goal. . . . It does not deny the facts, but it minimizes them, arguing that Jews use the Holocaust to draw attention away from criticism of Israel. . . . ``Softcore denial also includes Holocaust minimization, as when someone suggests it was not so bad.…”