My fellow Jews who take offense at these semantics have not learned the lesson of the Holocaust. Nearly all of my family was murdered then. When I asked the few survivors about their experience, their eyes went blank and cold. I saw that same look, years later, when I represented Central American refugees at what was called the "Detention Center" by the border, in applying for asylum.

The lesson from all of these experiences should be that this should not be done by anybody, to anybody. Period. This is not a contest of which group suffered the most. It should be a lesson in compassion and solidarity. To paraphrase the poem by Rev. John Donne which my Mother drilled into me:

The harm to any human harms me, for I am involved in humanity.

So ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee.