Following his statement marking the first anniversary of a series of deadly Islamist attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher supermarket, Secretary of State John Kerry is being criticized for what he left out: any mention of the actual attack on the French Jewish supermarket.

Kerry’s statement came one year after President Barack Obama downplayed the notion that Jews were specifically targeted at the kosher market, telling Vox at the time that the four Jews taken hostage then killed were “a bunch of folks” who were “randomly” shot.

Answering a question about Kerry’s statement, State Department Spokesman John Kirby asserted that it did address “the anniversary of both” attacks.

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