Published: 21 April 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Jewish Colorado governor accused of Nazism for stay-at-home coronavirus order (Jerusalem Post)
“As a Jewish American who lost family in the Holocaust, I’m offended by any comparison to Nazism,” Polis said Wednesday during his briefing in Denver. “We act to save lives. The exact opposite of the slaughter of six million Jews and many gypsies and Catholics and gays and lesbians and Russians and so many others.”
His voice cracked and tears welled up in his eyes as he responded to the question.
Polis, a Democrat elected in 2018, is Colorado’s first Jewish governor, and was the first openly gay man elected governor of a state.
“We’re hearing a lot of reports around here,” the reporter said, “and I know I’ve seen some stuff going on statewide about neighbours reporting on other neighbours for not following the orders, seeing a lot of rebellion out here against your orders, which have been called tyrannical, against local health department orders, being equated to Nazism.
How do you react to that? What do you say to those people who are clearly getting frustrated with this stay-at-home order?”
Senior Romanian priest compares Jews to coronavirus in Easter greeting (JTA/Jerusalem Post)
The disciples of Jesus, he said, reading from the Christian Bible, “feared the Jews, and here in the bracket we should read: feared the virus”
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Minnesota high schoolers mock Jews being sent to Auschwitz in tiktok video (Jewish Journal)
Photo: Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado (Wikimedia Commons)
