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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks with reporters after voting on the establishment of a commission to investigate the events of January 6 on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Nearly four months after condemning Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene s comments on antisemitic conspiracy theories, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is once again rejecting the Georgia Republican s rhetoric this time over her equating of COVID-19 safety measures with the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.
The remarks by the freshman Republican congresswoman and criticism of them come against the backdrop of antisemitic incidents across the United States in apparent response to the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip that saw a large number of civilian casualties. Those domestic incidents have been condemned across the political spectrum,
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Washington Examiner regarding the controversy but was quick to point the finger at the Democratic Party.
“The media and Democrats and everyone feeding into it is allowing them to hide the truth, which is the disgusting antisemitism within the Democrat Party,” she said.
In an interview last week, Greene claimed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to lift the mandate was the equivalent of how Nazis singled out Jews.
“You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens,” she said. “So much so, 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.”
The freshman Georgia lawmaker has continued to create fresh headaches for her party s leaders since arriving in Congress as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has struggled to rein her in.