Tagged Holocaust comparisons

Leave the Holocaust out of your self-promotion, political agenda and profit-seeking

Clockwise from top left: A protester bearing a sign comparing Trump to Hitler; Russia’s Anton Shulepov performs in the men free skate at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating; an ornament sold on Amazon depicting a concentration camp; American protesters comparing abortion to an American Holocaust; another ornament sold on Amazon depicting a concentration camp. (Getty Images / Amazon Screenshots)
December 5, 2019 / Jonathan A. Greenblatt

NEW YORK (JTA) — Here we go again: Just this week, two more cases of the abuse of Holocaust imagery have surfaced and created an international stir. In November, Russian figure skater Anton Shulepov wore an Auschwitz-themed costume during his free skating performance at the Grand Prix of Figure… Read more »

How Jews have reacted to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s concentration camp comments

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pictured at the National Action Network's annual convention in April, has drawn fire for calling migrant detention centers "concentration camps." (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
June 25, 2019 / Josefin Dolsten, JTA

NEW YORK (JTA) — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been getting plenty of criticism since referring to migrant detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border as “concentration camps.” “The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the freshman New York Democrat said June… Read more »

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared the migrant caravan to Jews fleeing Nazi Europe. Is it a fair take?  

Migrants climb up a bank of the nearly dry Tijuana River as they attempt to make their way past a police blockade to the El Chaparral port, Nov. 25, 2018. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
November 27, 2018 / Ron Kampeas, JTA

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just one of 435 members of the incoming U.S. House of Representatives, but her youth, surprise primary win in her Bronx-area district, socialism and, above all, outspokenness have attracted outsize attention. So when Ocasio-Cortez, 29, likened the crisis at the U.S. border with… Read more »