The omission of Jews from the Holocaust Remembrance Day statement is even more insidious than the imagery of the above examples, because it is more easily explained away by those who would, in fact, denounce overt expressions of anti-Semitism. At worst, the statement ignores or minimizes the fact that the Nazis' final solution explicitly aimed to exterminate flesh-and-blood Jews from the earth and to expunge their memory from the human story. At best, the statement incorporates Jews and their particular history and identity into a universal notion of humanity. Yet while universalist ideals may sound attractive and may appeal to our best inclinations to unity, too often they serve to advance the perspectives, assumptions, and interests of one group of human beings over those of other groups.