comparison is because I was asked. And I did it very carefully, and I presented it in terms of my personal story, of the conclusions that I drew from my personal story. I didn't present it as an edict." In 2005, Newkirk apologized for the pain the campaign had caused some people, while defending the goals of the campaign. The Guardian said Newkirk's comments "[did] little to calm the fury of Jewish groups". The campaign was also banned in Germany for making the Holocaust seem "insignificant and banal". On February 20, 2009, the German Federal Constitutional Court dismissed a legal move challenging an appeal court's ruling that PETA's campaign was not protected by free speech laws. While not entering formal proceedings to decide in the matter, the court expressed severe doubts as to whether the campaign constituted an offense against human rights in its opinion to dismiss the appeal, as had been found by the orderly courts, but acceded to the other grounds of the former rulings that the campaign constituted a trivialization of the Holocaust and hence a severe violation of living Jews' personality rights. Criticism Antisemitism The ADL says that the use of Holocaust imagery by animal rights activists is "disturbing" and antisemitic. Roberta Kalechofsky of Jews for Animal Rights argues in her essay "Animal Suffering and the Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons" that, although there is "connective tissue" between animal suffering and the Holocaust, they "fall into different historical frameworks, and comparison between them aborts the ... force of anti-Semitism." Holocaust survivor Abraham Silverman argued that the comparison is offensive, undermines the suffering of Jews during World War II, and inspires antisemitism online. Alex Hershaft, who is himself a Jew and a Holocaust survivor, has stated he does not take accusations of antisemitism seriously, adding: "The main criticism is that we're making light of the sacrifice of the Holocaust, and of course, we're not. Far from it. We're honoring it by trying to draw some lessons for humanity." Comparability Roberta Kalechofsky has written that she "agree[s] with I.B. Singer's statement, that 'every day is Treblinka for the animals, but also that "some agonies are too total to be compared with other agonies", and compared it to telling a dying child's parent "Now you know how an animal feels." Lack of human conflict with animals Roberta Kalechofsky, a Jewish animal rights activist, wrote: "The agony of animals arises