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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, moments of symbolism matter—whether we notice them or not.
It is striking that Sid Rosenberg marked ten years on WABC 77 today on the same remembrance day. It is not a coincidence. For many in this country without a voice, Jewish listeners and with his appointment to the Holocaust Memorial Council along with others like Siggy Flicker. Sid’s tireless effort since October 7th has been a voice of light in darkness. He has used his voice and platforms, like his syndicated radio show, to honor history honestly in an era of forgetfulness or intentional revisionist history.
Contrast that with recent rhetoric from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz which is especially troubling.
Governor Walz again compared immigration enforcement by I.C.E to the experience of Anne Frank—a comparison he has made before, despite holding a master’s degree focused on Holocaust education. This was not an off-hand comment born of ignorance. It was a conscious analogy, and therefore a conscious distortion.
If the governor is searching for guidance on immigration, he should look to his own party’s recent leadership. Former President Barack Obama spoke clearly: a nation has borders, laws matter, and enforcement is not inherently immoral. Under his administration, deportations reached historic levels—not because of cruelty, but because governance requires balancing compassion with law & order. That historical record deserves honest examination, not erasure.
Every illegal immigrant, regardless of sympathy for individual circumstances, made an intentional act to enter the United States unlawfully. That fact can be debated, reformed, or criticized—but it remains a choice.
The Jews who went into hiding had no choice.
A Real Life Holocaust Tale - Personal Experience Matters
My grandparents were not “evading authorities.” They were fleeing extermination. My grandmother was sent to a concentration camp at the age of fourteen. My grandfather lost his first wife and children to murder. After the war, he began again—meeting my grandmother and later having my mother in a displaced persons camp in Germany. My grandparents and mother came here as legal immigrants. They were stateless, traumatized, and alive only because the Nazis failed to finish the job.
They did nothing wrong other than be born Jewish.
To equate modern immigration enforcement—however flawed or in need of reform—with the systematic hunting of Jews across Europe is not just inaccurate. It cheapens genocide which is the modern rhetoric. It reduces the Holocaust to a rhetorical device, invoked when politically useful and discarded when inconvenient.
This selective use of Jewish suffering—deploying Jews when it serves a narrative and ignoring them when it does not—is not allyship. It is exploitation.
Time for a PR Ceasefire
What must not happen next is a reckless escalation. Calls to shut down the government over this issue would be catastrophic. The last shutdown driven by the political left was a disaster, harming workers, families, national credibility, and public trust. This country cannot withstand another shutdown—not economically, not socially, and not morally. Weaponizing dysfunction is not protest; it is negligence.
America needs to wake up.
We can all agree that protests, immigration enforcement clashes, and political rhetoric have spiraled out of control. A civic “protest ceasefire” would benefit the nation. But restoration requires seriousness, restraint, and historical honesty—not inflammatory Holocaust analogies and not self-inflicted governmental paralysis.
It also requires past presidents from both political parties to hold the line on their immigration stances and remind the public, republican or democrat - that illegal immigration has been an issue for both.
A wake-up for the Jews of America and the World
Perhaps this moment should serve as a wake-up call, particularly for progressives, including progressive Jews who still think their party is the party of JFK. Well it is not!
One of the few remaining voices in the Democratic Party speaking with clarity and moral consistency on Jewish issues is John Fetterman, who has deliberately distanced himself from agendas that instrumentalize Jewish history while abandoning Jewish safety. One of the Best victories in the 2024 Election was the re-election of John Fetterman over Dr. Oz. A lone soldier challenging the Squad and Others who are “pro-Palestine”
Clearly it was never about ending oppression and genocide in Iran, Syria as those same squad members are silent.
In a time of darkness, it matters that there are still champions of Holocaust remembrance (and modern day anti-semitism)—people insisting on accuracy, dignity, and restraint. That insistence is not backward-looking. It is the foundation for drastic and necessary change.
When everything becomes “like the Holocaust,” then the Holocaust becomes nothing at all.
We owe the dead more than metaphors.
We owe the living a functioning country built on democracy.
And we owe history the truth.

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