ADL Calls on Josh Mandel to Apologize for Comparing New Vaccine Mandates to Nazi Germany
The Anti-Defamation League is calling on a Republican Senate candidate to apologize for invoking the Nazis in decrying new vaccine mandates.
After President Joe Biden announced those new planned requirements for businesses, Josh Mandel responded by telling people they should not “comply with the tyranny.”
He even said, “When the Gestapo show up at your front door, you know what to do.”
The ADL reacted with disgust to Mandel’s commentary and said, “Being asked to wear a mask or take an FDA-approved vaccine is not equivalent to the actions of the Gestapo in Nazi-era Germany or the systemic annihilation of an entire group of people. These comparisons are beyond the pale and need to stop.”
Being asked to wear a mask or take an FDA-approved vaccine is not equivalent to the actions of the Gestapo in Nazi-era Germany or the systemic annihilation of an entire group of people. These comparisons are beyond the pale and need to stop.@JoshMandelOhio needs to apologize. https://t.co/Wj1TNc37bq
— ADL (@ADL) September 10, 2021
They called on him to apologize.
Mandel responded by insisting he won’t apologize, saying the ADL should be apologizing instead, and accusing them of “play[ing] footsie with Jew-haters.”
Hi @ADL, I will not stop. I will not apologize.
It’s you and kapo @JGreenblattADL that should apologize.
As you guys play footsie with Jew-haters, I will keep fighting alongside Patriots like @Cernovich and @JackPosobiec as we defend the Judeo-Christian bedrock of America. https://t.co/8A5UVxUp3a
— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) September 10, 2021
Mandel also attacked ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt as a “kapo,” and if you don’t know what that is, here’s a brief history lesson.
The term refers to prisoners in concentration camps who were assigned to oversee and carry out the torment of fellow prisoners. Attacking another Jew with that label is, in the words of former Jewish Chronicle reporter Daniel Sugarman, “the worst insult a Jew can give another Jew.”
There have, unfortunately, been a number of people comparing mask and vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany, including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Congressman Thomas Massie, Alex Berenson, the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police president, and more.
