So, as an Israeli Jew who obviously finds this day (that we call "Yom Hashoah") important, I decided to make a quick research and see which 2020 candidates released a tweet about it, thus at least acknowledging it. This is a minor detail that shouldn't factor into one's calculations much, but I do think it's interesting to see who sees the Jewish community as important enough to make that minimal effort at the very least. I only checked twitter accounts (for congresspeople, both official congress accounts and personal campaign accounts) because it seems like the most important social media site for American politicians, but if any of them posted something in another social media site or spoke out publicly, feel free to correct me! So this is what I found:
Tweeted about Yom Hashoah:
Kamala Harris (personal account- one of two who only used the English name and didn't call it Yom Hashoah)
Elizabeth Warren(Senate account)
Pete Buttigieg
Amy Klobuchar (personal account- also didn't call it Yom Hashoah, but has a pinned tweet condemning antisemitic attacks)
Kirsten Gillibrand (Senate account)
Eric Swalwell (personal account)
Tim Ryan (House account)
John Delaney (personal account)
Didn't bother to release a tweet about Yom Hashoah:
Joe Biden
Bernie Sanders
Beto O'Rourke
Cory Booker
Michael Bennet
Andrew Yang
John Hickenlooper
Tim Ryan
Wayne Messam
Jay Inslee
Julián Castro
Tulsi Gabbard
Marianne Williamson
Steve Bullock
Donald Trump (couldn't find a public mention from this year either)
Bill Weld
Special place in hell:
Mike Gravel's kids (tweeted about Yom Hashoah- and made sure to mention modern American systematic racism and Israel's oppression of the Palestinians in the same tweet, I hope I don't have to explain how disrespectful and offensive this is)
The teens who manage Mike Gravel's account, are on Gloria La Riva level.
Not even Gabbard would do that, Sanders wouldn't do it as he is technically "jewish" and would make him lose voters.
