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More from the Department of Inappropriate Holocaust Analogies, this time from a Jewish group in Canada.

I’m not sure why there’s no women’s ski jump competition in the Winter Olympics, and can’t imagine the IOC has a better reason than “this is how it’s always been done,” but I’m pretty sure it’s a stretch to say the men’s-only policy is akin to the Nuremberg Laws.

But B’nai Brith Canada begs to differ. In a press release calling for the IOC and the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to end the exclusion of women, its League for Human Rights writes:

In a letter to John Furlong, CEO of VANOC, the League recalled the 1936 Berlin Olympics when the IOC turned a blind eye to Hitler’s fascist regime, which was even then implementing discriminatory policies against Jews that impacted Games that year. The League asks the IOC and the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to focus on its policies and practices relating to discrimination, “and that includes eliminating discrimination against women now, just as it should have included resistance to discrimination against Jews then”.

Wow. Did no one at B’nai Brith Canada pause and think, “Sure, discriminaton of any kind is awful, but do we really want to compare a boneheaded policy by some piggy snow jocks to the systemmatic apartheid and dehumanization policies that led to the slaughter of 6 million Jews? Won’t that sound, I don’t know, out of proportion?”