Troy Jackson Apologizes for Gaza Remarks on Jewish Mainers, Citing 6 Million Holocaust Victims
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 30
Troy Jackson Apologizes for Gaza Remarks on Jewish Mainers, Citing 6 Million Holocaust Victims
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 30
Summary
Jackson issued a statement apologizing after saying in a Maine TV interview that Jewish Mainers were reluctant to call the Gaza war a “genocide” because of what the term means after the Holocaust.
In the apology, he said he misspoke, made an improper generalization about Jewish Mainers’ views and recognized that “genocide” carries particular weight for many Jewish families because 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
The Democratic Senate nominee has repeatedly labeled the Gaza war a genocide during his campaign, opposes U.S. military aid to Israel and also said in the interview that Hamas bore blame for “senseless murders” on both sides.
The episode lands in a high-stakes Maine race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a contest central to Democrats’ effort to win back control of the U.S. Senate.