A comment by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticising President Trump’s statement on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which he failed to mention that the victims were Jews, drew a negative comment by World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder.

"It does no honor to the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust to play politics with their memory,’’ Lauder said in his comment.

"Any fair reading of the White House statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day will see it appropriately commemorates the suffering and the heroism that mark that dark chapter in modern history.

"There are enough real anti-Semitism and true threats facing the Jewish people today. Our community gains nothing if we reach a point where manufactured outrages reduce public sensitivity to the real dangers we confront," Lauder said.

Greenblatt has also condemned President Trump’s planned Executive Order on immigration and refugee entry into the United States. The draft order would direct the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to “cease refugee processing of and the admittance of nationals of Syria as refugees,” to cap the annual number of refugees at 50,000, and to halt all travel from certain Muslim countries.

The order — titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States” — immediately suspends all refugee resettlement from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days and forbids those from war-ravaged Syria from entering the country indefinitely.

The order is a response to the dangerous flaws with the U.S. vetting and immigration system that have enabled foreign terrorists to perpetrate fatal terrorist attacks on American soil, including 9-11, as well as the Boston Marathon and San Bernadino massacres. For ADL, however, ‘’this will effectively shut America’s doors to the most vulnerable people in the world who seek refuge from unspeakable pain and suffering.’’

Greenblatt noted that the presidential executive order was signed on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, likening it to passengers of the MS St. Louis, a German ship filled with 937 Jewish refugees, who were denied entry into the United States, as well as Cuba and Canada, in 1939.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which supports the Executive Order, said it ‘’is appalled that leftwing Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Reform Movement are “strongly condemning” this draft Executive Order.’’ ‘’Why in the world are the ADL and Reform Movement supporting continuing to bring people into the U.S. who are not properly vetted, a significant number of whom support terrorism and have extremely hostile views towards Jews and Israel, over the safe and humane alternative proposed in President Trump’s draft Executive Order?,’’ asked the group’s President Morton A.Klein.