Friday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held every year on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The White House, which issues a statement on the day every year, is being criticized for the one released on Friday which honors the “victims, survivors, and heroes” of that time, but fails to make any mention of the Jews or anti-Semitism.

Many thought it was odd that Donald Trump declined to honor Jews specifically, who, history shows, were the most persecuted group during the Holocaust. When CNN asked for some kind of clarification, Trump administration spokeswoman Hope Hicks said that “despite what the media reports, we are an incredibly inclusive group and we took into account all of those who suffered.” In comparison, both Barack Obama’s and George W. Bush’s statements mentioned either Jews, Israel, or anti-Semitism by name.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus spoke to NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Sunday morning, further defending the President’s choice of words. “We acknowledge the horrible time of the Holocaust and what it meant for history,” Priebus said, adding, “You know that President Trump has dear family members that are Jewish, and there was no harm or ill will or offense intended by any of that.”

Todd told Priebus that Trump had effectively “whitewashed” Jews from the Holocaust with this statement, but Priebus said that that wasn’t true. When Todd asked if Priebus or Trump regretted not mentioning Jews, Priebus said he did not. “I mean, everyone suffering in the Holocaust including, obviously, all of the Jewish people affected in the miserable genocide that occurred is something that we consider to be extraordinarily sad, and something that can never bet forgotten, and something that if we could wipe it off the history books we could, but we can’t.”

Many criticized the statement and Priebus’s defense of it, citing the “All Lives Matter” movement, which is usually invoked to derail any conversation about the discrimination of a specific group of people.

The Holocaust culminated in what Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers called the “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem,” calling for a mass genocide of all the Jews residing in Europe during the 1930s and 40s. Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, as were five million people of other ethnicities, backgrounds, sexual orientations, political affiliations, or mental or physical abilities.