The Anderson County Review, a local Kansas newspaper owned by Anderson County Republican Party chairman Dane Hicks, shares a cartoon comparing mandatory masks to the Holocaust.
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Republican Alaska State Rep says, “People want to say Hitler was a white supremacist. No. He was fearful of the Jewish nation, and that drove him into some unfathomable atrocities.”
Read MoreOn their official Facebook account, the Berk County Republicans call Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf a Nazi for enforcing stay-at-home orders in counties that ignore state rules. Criticized by local Jewish groups, as well as county and state politicians, they change the word “Nazi” to “Marxist Left” and refuse to apologize.
Read MoreA couple attacks a group of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, ripping off their masks and shouting antisemitic statements related to the spread of COVID-19.
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White nationalist groups that traffic in antisemitic conspiracies rally in Huntington Beach, California, to protest COVID-related restrictions. They carry antisemitic signs and banners, which have become a staple of anti-lockdown protests.
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Three Republican Washington State Representatives speak at an anti-lockdown protest attended by white nationalists and neo-Nazis, alongside a leader of Patriot Prayer, a violent white nationalist group.
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The city of San Antonio passes a resolution against using racialized speech when referencing COVID, in response to a rise in hate crimes. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) calls the resolution “NUTS,” and accuses the San Antonio city council of being “triggered,” amplifying a tweet that describes the resolution as “a Gestapo or Soviet move.”
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Pennsylvania State Rep. Cris Dush (R) compares Governor Tom Wolf’s (D) administration to the Nazis during a House State Government Committee hearing.
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Several weeks after attending an Ohio anti-lockdown protest while holding an antisemitic sign referring to Jews as “the real plague,” neo-Nazi Matthew Slatzer walks into a convenience store with a machete and a hatchet, and says he is going to Kent State University to “find Jews.”
Read MoreAn anti-lockdown protestor in Idaho compares the temporary closure of non-essential businesses to the mass murder of Jew in Nazi Germany. Donald Trump and leaders of the GOP have repeatedly expressed support for anti-lockdown protests, and have failed to condemn the growing presence of antisemitism at these events.
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Republican politicians have praised these “Reopen” protests from the start, and continue to do so even as the involvement of antisemitic and white nationalist groups grows — from overtly antisemitic signs, to the presence of the Proud Boys, to the involvement of people who attended Unite The Right in Charlottesville in 2017, to messaging comparing Democratic governors to Hitler and stay-at-home orders to Nazi takeovers.
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After Ohio Department of Health Director, Dr. Amy Acton, extended the state’s stay-at-home order until the end of the month, Ohio State Representative Nino Vitale lashed out, calling her a “globalist.” Dr. Acton is Jewish, and “globalist” is an antisemitic slur frequently used by Republican politicians.
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Just three days after an anti-lockdown protester in Ohio is spotted brandishing an antisemitic sign, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks out in support of anti-lockdown protests, saying, “I applaud these people for speaking up and defending liberty.”
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In an interview, Idaho State Representative Heather Scott says her state’s stay-at-home order and closure of non-essential businesses is “no different than Nazi Germany.”
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The federal department of Health and Human Services hires a new Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Michael Caputo, whose personal Twitter shows him repeatedly making racist and antisemitic statements, and spreading conspiracy theories about COVID-19. In addition to retweeting a post that referred to George Soros as “the real virus,” Caputo called economist David Rothschild an “inbred elitist sphincter whose family craves control,” invoking an antisemitic conspiracy about the Rothschilds.
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Florida’s Republican Governor, Ron DeSantis, suggests that his state’s outbreak is the result of New Yorkers traveling to Florida, despite the fact that, at the time, the beaches in his state are still open and full of people.
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Colorado State House Minority Leader Patrick Neville says that the stay-at-home order Governor Jared Polis, who is Jewish, put in place, are causing a "Gestapo-like mentality.”
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Rick Wiles, founder of the antisemitic site TruNews, claimed that Jews are the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. TruNews has received White House press credentials on multiple occasions, The White House has never responded to questions as to why it continues to credential a virulently antisemitic site.
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After being criticized for using the antisemitic trope of “globalization” to criticize a Jewish lawmaker, Gaetz tries to justify his comment by resorting to anti-Asian racism.
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At a rally in North Carolina, Trump claimed: “There are fringe globalists who would rather keep our borders open than keep out infection.” This claim invokes the antisemitic dog whistle “globalists” — often used as code for “Jews” and promotes the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are secretly responsible for immigration, and for the spread of COVID-19.
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