Holocaust Imagery & Rhetoric Continue At Protests In State Capitols

As reported in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, protests against mandatory stay-at-home orders in state capitals across the United States continue to be marred by Holocaust imagery and rhetoric. Last Friday, at a protest in Illinois against Governor JB Pritzker, who is Jewish, protesters held signs reading “Heil, Pritzker” and “Arbeit Mach Frei JB.”

Arbeit Mach Frei is the German phrase meaning “work will make you free” that is inscribed on the gate of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp where more than 1.1 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

The day before the Illinois rally, a protester at the State Capital in Lansing, Michigan held a sign that depicted Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as Nazi Dictator Adolph Hitler. Such references and comparisons diminish the horrors of the Holocaust and can incite further acts of hatred towards Jewish people.

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