Jewish Republicans with close ties to House GOP leadership are rebuking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for comparing the Holocaust to mandates to wear face masks and get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and lobbyist Jeff Miller, an ally and longtime personal friend of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, sharply admonished Greene on Twitter on Tuesday. They were responding to the Georgia Republican’s tweets that assert government and corporate mandates that enforce COVID-19 vaccinations and the wearing of protective masks are tantamount to Nazi Germany’s roundup and genocide of 6 million European Jews.
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“Please educate yourself so that you can realize how absolutely wrong and inappropriate it is to compare proof of vaccination with the 6 million Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. You’re an embarrassment to yourself and the GOP,” Brooks said.
Miller, who former President Donald Trump appointed to the board of trustees of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, was similarly critical. “WTF is wrong with you? I think you need to pay a visit to the US Holocaust Museum. I’d be happy to arrange. Then maybe going forward you wouldn’t make anymore disgusting, ignorant and offensive tweets. If I’m wrong and you’re not ignorant about Holocaust..then you are disgusting,” Miller tweeted.
Greene, 47, is a first-term congresswoman who represents a conservative, northwest Georgia House district and aligns herself with Trump. The congresswoman’s ardent opposition to masks and vaccine mandates is shared by many House Republicans — and GOP voters.
“Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star,” Taylor Greene tweeted Tuesday, prompting a response from Brooks and Miller. “Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.”
The congresswoman’s tweet was similar to comments she made Thursday in an interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network, during which she criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for continuing to mandate the wearing of masks when members are in the chamber voting. Pelosi has blamed the mandate on House Republicans who refuse to get vaccinated.
“We can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens. So much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about,” Greene told host David Brody.
In that interview, Greene was defending yet more comments she made comparing the Holocaust to mask and vaccine mandates.
“And I think any rational Jewish person didn’t like what happened in Nazi Germany, and any rational Jewish person doesn’t like what’s happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies,” Greene told a reporter in Arizona, where she was traveling for a political event.
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Greene has been in hot water previously for fanning bizarre conspiracies and making statements that were considered racist and antisemitic. After she claimed ignorance and apologized to Republican colleagues in a closed-door meeting, House GOP leaders and most of the rank and file decided her contrition was sufficient. They voted against a Democratic motion, which was ultimately successful, to remove the Georgia congresswoman from her committees.
It is unclear if Greene’s last comments will cause McCarthy and his leadership team, and the broader GOP conference, to reassess.
