The ADL is full of crap to even bring this up, but Hucksterbee is ALWAYS full of crap.
Dear Gov. Huckabee:
Thank you for reaching out to us to discuss your concerns about our criticism of your recent remarks about the Holocaust.
Based upon our conversation and after having listened to your full speech, I now understand that you never intended to make any direct comparison between today’s issues and the Holocaust. Indeed, it was clear from our discussion about the impact of your visits to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Museum, and your strong commitment to Israel, that you understand why the Holocaust must always be remembered as a unique event in human history.
Reasonable people, listening to the story of the words your daughter penned at Yad Vashem – “Why didn’t somebody do something?” – followed by a reference to the national debt, could interpret that as drawing an analogy. We are pleased to know that this was never your intention.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely,
Abraham H. Foxman
National Director
http://www.adl.org/holocaust/letter_Huckabee.asp
More people worldwide will die early deaths from the central banks’ QE and ZIRP policies than the entirety of the Holocaust. Recent stats show 44 million people entered critical food scarcity just in the first 3 months of 2011 due to QE and ethanol policies worldwide.
Because the deaths will cover the entire globe is no reason to assuage responsibility of politicians, bureaucrats, central bankers and bankers in the greatest tragedy of the 21st century so far Mr Foxman.
/it takes a lot for me to rise up and defend Huck the shuckster
Everyone is sooooo sensitive these days.
That's precisely Foxman's intention -- to harm Huckabee. Specifically, to harm his Presidential chances. Same has he tried to harm Palin (another huge supporter of Israel) a couple months ago after her "blood libel" comment. Foxman is a liberal ideologue first and foremost.
Foxman is a demonrat stooge. The ADL long ago lost any credibility and is now no different than the stooges at CAIR.
Foxman and the ADL are ANTI-CHRISTIAN!! PERIOD.
Mike Huckabee: How good a friend of Israel? UPDATE
Max Brantley, Arkansas Times on Wed, May 4
Mike Huckabee’s penchant for exaggeration gets him in trouble and he rarely apologizes. Case in point: He compared the U.S. debt with the Holocaust. The Anti-Defamation League takes exception to metaphorical use of the Holocaust and asked for an apology. Huckabee said the ADL should apologize to HIM, in that he’s such a pal to Israel, leader of tours to the Holy Land and so forth.
This all prompts a commentary by Michelle Goldberg in Daily Beast on the double-edged sword of evangelical Christian fervor for Israel.
Goldberg says Huckabee’s excuse-making “should serve as a reminder that the aggressive Zionism of the Christian right does not translate into sensitivity toward broader Jewish concerns.”
She wrote:
The NRA speech wasn’t the first time he’s made analogies between Nazism and liberal policies—in the past, he’s spoken of the “holocaust of liberalized abortion.” And he seems to find Jews themselves exotic and almost bizarre. Speaking to Politico in February, he described having dinner with a group of Jews in New York this way: “I felt like I was sitting between Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen—it was really interesting; it was surreal.”
Huckabee usually gets away with this sort of thing because he is pro-Israel, if by pro-Israel one means unequivocally supporting Israeli irredentism. Unlike the majority of American Jews, he opposes a two-state solution, and in February he said Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem should be resettled in “a territory that [is] in the hands of Muslims, in the hands of Arabs,” which might make him the first modern American presidential aspirant to openly champion ethnic cleansing. ...
It’s true, as Huckabee says, that conservative Jews welcome evangelical support for Israel, even though the premillennial dispensationalist scenario ends with a catastrophic world war in the Middle East and the consignment of Jews to eternal hellfire. After all, both sides have the same short-term geopolitical ends—a Middle East dominated by a Greater Israel. The alliance is, in the immortal words of Leon Wieseltier, “a grim comedy of mutual condescension.” What it is not is a friendship. And it certainly doesn’t give anyone license to insinuate that higher marginal tax rates and tighter gun control are sort of like the Shoah.
UPDATE: The ADL says it accepts Mike Huckabee’s explanation of his remarks. That doesn’t wipe the slate clean on larger issues Goldberg raised, of course.
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2011/05/04/mike-huckabee-how-good-a-friend-of-israel