JD Vance ‘forgot’ to mention the Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Peloni:  It was not by accident that Vance specifically failed to mention the Jews in his comments here.  Indeed, he is a shrewd if transparent political thinker, one who is far better known for making political choices rather than off the cuff mistakes.  While it is in many ways more of the same, it was clearly a nod toward his best bud Tucker Carlson.

This is just one more example of a Tucker-Carlson-esque pattern of doing anything he can to avoid showing sympathy to Israel and the Jews.

Robin M. Itzler |Am Thinker | January 29, 2026

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To anyone who thinks there is a chance Vice President JD Vance will change his continuing disdain for the Jews, as New Yorkers say, fuhgeddaboudit!

January 27 was Holocaust Remembrance Day, which recognizes, not all the dead of WWII or the victims of the Nazis, but very specifically, the Jews whom the Nazis sought to exterminate entirely from Earth. Here’s how JD Vance acknowledged a day remember that unique, targeted evil:

I was not the only one to notice that omission. Perhaps not coincidentally, the BBC, which is notoriously antisemitic, also forgot to mention the Jews when it acknowledged Holocaust Remembrance Day. With a nod to Ilhan Omar, it’s as if both said, “Some people did something…”

As you can see, Vance’s post included photos of the vice president and his wife, Usha, in 2025 visiting a Holocaust memorial site at the Dachau Death Camp, where he signed a guestbook. Please look to see if it’s signed “JD Vance” or “Tucker Carlson.”

How in the hell (as in the hell of a Nazi death camp) could anyone reference what happened in the Holocaust and not mention Jews? For those keeping count, the Nazis won the game by 6 million.

Imagine someone talking about the American Revolutionary War without mentioning George Washington. Or the Civil War without saying Abraham Lincoln’s name. Or the Great Depression, and omitting Franklin Roosevelt from the discussion. Except it’s worse than that because while Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt were all major players in those historical events, the Holocaust is specifically, by definition, about the Jews.

Vice President JD Vance didn’t mention the Nazis systematically murdering European Jewry because he is Tucker Carlson with a beard. Thus, Vance avoids anything that even remotely gives Jews or Israel a sympathetic view.

From the official White House statement to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s post, there was mention of Jews or antisemitism in their own commemorations of Holocaust Remembrance Day. But not Vance, who seems to want to represent the Woke Reich of the Republican Party.

With much regret, it is now definite that VP Vance is a “groyper,” those Republicans who lean to the Woke Reich. As Commentary Executive Editor Abe Greenwald wrote in an email entitled “JD Vance Has Made His Choice”:

So, let’s also stop looking for Vance to change his tune. He’s dancing with the one that brought him to the party, and that’s Carlson. According to multiple accounts, Carlson was heavily involved in getting Donald Trump to pick Vance as his running mate. That’s a favor you don’t take for granted. Especially if you’re as calculating as our current vice president. If he’s not going to disown the racist right for insulting his wife and child, he’s certainly not going to do it for the Jews. He’s decided that the Republican future belongs to anti-Semites.

Every night when I say my prayers, I ask G-d to protect President Donald J. Trump. Those prayers take on a stronger meaning out of worry that the “Woke Reich” will put Vance in the Oval Office before the next presidential election, when many Americans are looking to SOS Marco Rubio to be the presidential nominee and continue MAGA.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter and can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com

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  1. Is Vance channeling Dan Quayle, now?

    The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. [on followup] No, not our nation’s, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century, but in this century’s history. – Dan Quayle

    Press conference (September 15, 1988), paraphrased in Esquire (August 1992), The New Yorker (October 10, 1988), p. 102

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle

    • A charitable interpretation of Trump’s selection of Vance as VP running mate: life insurance?

      Reagan narrowly survived an assassination attempt. Reagan’s VP was George H.W. Bush.

      George H.W. Bush selected Quayle.

      G.W. Bush selected Dick Cheney.

      Obama selected Biden.

      Trump selected Vance.

      The moral of the story: Always select a tactless fool as your successor.

      “You should vote for Trump. You should vote for Trump.
      Jeanine Santucci (22 November 2019), “Joe Biden tells activist, ‘You should vote for Trump,’ over criticism of Obama deportations”, USA Today”

      “If Haiti, a God-awful thing to say, if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interest.
      As quoted in ‘1994, U.S. Invasion of Haiti’, by Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, (27 April 2021)”

      “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
      Speaking of Presidential candidate Barack Obama”

      “I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?
      Why is it that my wife, who is sitting out there in the audience, is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?
      [Of his Irish ancestors] Those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse? Is it because they didn’t work hard? My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours? No, it’s not because they weren’t as smart. It’s not because they didn’t work as hard. It’s because they didn’t have a platform upon which to stand.
      Quoted in “No Time to Cite Source, He Says : Biden Stirs Row by Using Lines From Briton’s Talk” Los Angeles Times (September 13, 1987)
      Speech plagiarized from a speech delivered by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock in May 1987. Biden explained to the Los Angeles Times: “It was a two-minute closing […] There wasn’t a single thing wrong with what I did. The only thing that made it happen was time–the absolute two minutes. . . . If I’d have thought, I would have attributed it to him.” On September 24, Biden withdrew from the presidential campaign: “And I am no less frustrated for the environment of Presidential politics that makes it so difficult to let the American people measure the whole Joe Biden and not just misstatements I have made.” See “Biden Withdraws Bid for Presidency in Wake of Furor” The New York Times (September 24, 1987)”

      “Hell, I might be president now if it weren’t for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn’t have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn’t work.
      The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (July 28, 2004)”

      Or, actually, pick almost anything. 😀

      https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

      Google: “In January 2018, at a Council on Foreign Relations event, Joe Biden described a conversation with Ukrainian officials:”I said, ‘You’re not getting the $1 billion.’ I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”

      —
      “Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.”
      “Remarks after introducing a legislation to create a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil to soar by billions of dollars per year October 1986”

      https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney

      “[Comedians]’ paradise.”

  2. José Arturo Castellanos – The Salvadoran who chose life and saved 40,000 Jews from the Holocaust.
    You will always be remembered as a great hero ???

    José Arturo Castellanos Contreras was not a hero of speeches or weapons.
    He was an ordinary man in an extraordinary moment… and there he made a decision that made him eternal.

    ?? He was born in El Salvador in 1893.
    A career military officer, engineer, and later diplomat. In 1942, he was appointed Consul General of El Salvador in Geneva, Switzerland, in the middle of World War II.

    The world was burning.
    Europe was under Nazi terror.
    Being Jewish was a death sentence

    The encounter that changed thousands of destinies

    In Switzerland, Castellanos met George Mantello, a Hungarian Jew desperately seeking help to save his people.
    Castellanos could have said “no.”
    He could have taken refuge in neutrality.
    He could have followed orders.

    But he chose something higher: his conscience.

    A piece of paper against extermination
    Castellanos began issuing Salvadoran citizenship certificates to Jews persecuted by the Nazi regime.

    ? A simple document…
    yet with immense power.

    Those papers stated:
    “This person is a citizen of El Salvador ??.”

    This removed them from the status of condemned Jews and turned them, in the eyes of the Nazis, into foreigners from a neutral country.
    Many were sent to internment camps instead of extermination camps.
    Many survived because of that paper.

    The risk? Total

    Castellanos:
    Acted without authorization from the Salvadoran government
    Violated diplomatic norms
    Risked his career
    Risked his freedom
    Risked his life

    He knew that if he were discovered, he could lose everything.
    And yet… he did not stop.

    40,000 lives. 40,000 worlds.

    It is estimated that more than 40,000 Jews were saved directly or indirectly through these actions.

    Not numbers.
    Families.
    Children.
    Grandparents.
    Futures that exist today thanks to him.

    Silence, humility, and obscurity

    After the war, Castellanos never claimed to be a hero.
    He returned to El Salvador.
    He lived without honors.
    He died in 1977, almost in anonymity.

    But within the Jewish people, the truth is never forgotten.

    Righteous Among the Nations

    In 2010, the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem recognized him as:

    ?? “Righteous Among the Nations”
    The highest honor granted to a non-Jew who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

    His name is forever engraved among those who chose life when the world chose death.
    Legacy

    José Arturo Castellanos left us an eternal lesson:
    True neutrality in the face of evil is to take a stand for good.
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