‘Stop Bringing Up Nazis and Hitler’: Moskowitz Goes Off On Marjorie Taylor Greene In Tense Hearing

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) went off on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during a Wednesday hearing after the Republican congresswoman repeated her regular claim that Nazis are running around modern-day Ukraine.

Greene spoke of the controversial Azov battalion and hit back at a witness before the committee calling accusations of neo-Nazism in Ukraine a “disinformation trope” sourced out of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

“Do you see this headline? This is NBC News,” said Greene at one point, holding up a prop showing the headline.

“They say that Ukraine’s Nazi problem is real. Even if Putin’s denazification claim is not, so even our own American media, unless you consider NBC or Time magazine misinformation spreaders or disinformation media outlets. This is contrary to what you testified. And there’s frequent pictures all over. Anybody can find them, of Nazis. Here they are. This looks like something you’d see out of Hitler’s Germany – from Ukraine,” Greene argued, holding up a photo.

Moskowitz hit back when he spoke after Greene, saying, “Now I want to address something else that went on in this committee. By another member and I say this as someone whose grandparents, escaped the Holocaust.”

“So my grandmother was part of the Kindertransport out of Germany. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My grandfather, her husband escaped Poland from the pogroms. You know, the idea that we pretend that behavior is acceptable and regular. There are no concentration camps in Ukraine. They’re not taking babies and shooting them in the air because they’re Jewish. There’s no gas chambers. There’s no ovens. They’re not railing people in. They’re not ripping gold out of people’s mouth. They’re not taking stuff out of their home. They’re not trying to erase a people, the Ukrainians,” fumed Moskowitz, concluding:

Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler. The only people who know about Nazis and Hitler are the 10 million people and their families who lost their loved ones. Generations of people who were wiped out. It is enough of this disgusting behavior using Nazis as propaganda. You want to talk about Nazis? Get yourself over to the Holocaust Museum, you go see what Nazis did. It’s despicable that we use that and we allow it, and we sit here like somehow it’s regular.

Greene, who has in the past called the Russian invasion of Ukraine a “war against Russia in Ukraine,” was referring to U.S. media outlets covering a militia in the eastern part of Ukraine that does indeed have roots in Nazism. The militia, which has been fighting Russian separatists in the region since 2014, is controversial also inside Ukraine and is not indicative of the Ukrainian military in general.

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