Regarding the letter from Melissa Karpel of the PETA Foundation (“Animal-rights group wants to send message on suffering,’’ Ideas, May 8): I don’t think Jeff Jacoby got PETA’s message wrong in his May 1 column “The end of Holocaust remembrance.’’ Even if the project in question from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were funded by a “Jewish philanthropist,’’ as if that justifies anything, and even if Isaac Bashevis Singer has an opinion that might occasionally run parallel to PETA, nevertheless, the analogy of comparing farm animals to murdered Jews in Nazi concentration camps is patently offensive to the vast majority of Jews.

Rather than raise animals to the level of humans (“sentient individuals who love their families’’), the “Holocaust on Your Plate’’ campaign lowers Nazi victims, most of whom were Jews, to the level of animals to be slaughtered.

Using my extended family’s suffering and murder as some kind of dramatic teaching device propagates the racist Nazi ideology that gave us the Holocaust in the first place.

Nathan S. Zielonka

West Roxbury