Holocaust remembrance pages removed in Pentagon’s DEI purge

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When she was five years old, Kitty Saks’ home in Vienna was commandeered by the Nazis, leading her family to flee to Brussels, where she was hidden in a convent until the Allies liberated Belgium. Twenty-seven members of her family were killed in the Holocaust.

Until a few weeks ago, that story could be read on the website of a US Air Force unit, one of the many ways the government commemorated the Holocaust.

But now it is gone, one of many Holocaust remembrance articles taken down as part of the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to rid Pentagon platforms of anything related to DEI.

In a February 26 memo titled “digital content refresh”, Pentagon leadership was directed to “remove all DoD news and feature articles, photos, and videos that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).” More than 24,000 articles could potentially be removed, according to a database obtained by CNN.

Also caught in the net of the anti-DEI purge are articles focused on race, gender and LGBTQ experiences, as well as others on topics such as cancer awareness, suicide prevention and sexual assault. An article on Jackie Robinson, who served in the military and is widely admired for breaking baseball’s color line, was removed and has been reinstated.
Also removed was an article on Bea Arthur, the Jewish “Golden Girls” star who served in the Marines during World War II.

Beyond Saks’ story, at least two more pages documenting Holocaust remembrance were also removed. One page, titled “A Cadet’s Perspective: Holocaust Days of Remembrance,” described a cadet’s experience visiting concentration camps a decade ago and the ways they informed his experience in the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Religious diversity
Another page stripped from the Pentagon’s platforms commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Week and told readers to not forget the importance of religious diversity:

In a statement, Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot — who referred to DEI initiatives as “Woke cultural Marxism” — said pages that had inadvertently been removed would be reinstated but did not detail if or when the Holocaust-related articles would go back up.

Stories of Holocaust survivors were caught in the anti-DEI net, as was an article about Jewish “Golden Girls” star Bea Arthur.

Inadvertent? Considering the Christian Nationalists behind this I am not so sure. Maybe what was inadvertent was the love bombing of Jews coming off.

MAGAs were never friends of the Jews.

The good news is that unlike with the “wokes” while some Jews are falling for MAGA love bombing most are not. The bad news is that while the consequences of getting on the wrong side of the “wokes” is at worst cancellation, getting doxed, having noisy demonstrators on your lawn, the worst potential consequences of being on the wrong side of MAGA’s is being procecuted.

What do you expect. Same group that goes around making statements like "Slavery was good for black people."