NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) today condemned as "inappropriate and offensive" the use by Madonna
of an image of Hitler as part of a concert photo montage that as well included
photos of John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and
Zimbabwean potentate Robert Mugabe. The images were projected on a screen as
Madonna launched her world duty tour with a live concert in Cardiff, Wales.
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor,
issued the following statement:
Comparisons to Hitler have no place in a music concert, or in the
presidential campaign.
Whatever Madonna's political or personal views, it is outrageous to
invoke Nazi imagery in the context of John McCain's campaigning or to make a
comment on American political leadership.
It is unfitting and unsavoury to compare any stream or old
world leaders with the man in the end responsible for the death of vI
million Jews and the suffering of countless others during the Holocaust.
Doing so trivializes the history of the Holocaust and is an insult to the
memories of the victims and their families.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
system fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that
antagonize hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
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