Mountain Iron City Council Member Julie Buria, candidate for Minnesota House seat 6B, shares an image on Facebook containing graphic imagery from the Holocaust, comparing COVID-19 public health measures to the murder of 6 million Jews.
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The Washaba County GOP posts a Facebook image comparing Minnesota's mask mandate to Nazi Germany forcing Jews to wear yellow stars. The MN GOP Chairwoman initially claims the Facebook page was hacked. She later admits the post was shared by a county party board member.
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Minnesota City Councilman suggests people with COVID should wear “a bright yellow star” as a “badge.” He refuses to apologize, saying instead “People are overly friggin’ sensitive,” and arguing that he cannot be antisemitic because he has “been to Israel.”
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Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), who ran antisemitic campaign advertisements in the 2018 midterm elections, refers to “Judeo-Christian values” in a racist attack against the Black Lives Matter movement. He then accused the Black-led movement, which has been the focus of multiple antisemitic conspiracy theories, of waging war against “western values.”
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The Princeton College Republicans host an event with Representative Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), who ran antisemitic campaign advertisements to win his election in 2018, prompting backlash from Jewish students.
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Donald Trump, Jr., Kimberley Guilfoyle, and Republican Jewish Coalition Chair, Norm Coleman, host a fundraiser for Jason Lewis, a Republican candidate running for Coleman’s former seat. Lewis has a long history of antisemitism, including his invocation of the antisemitic “dual loyalty” trope, and his comments about a “Jewish lobby.”
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Bob Kroll, who has been accused of involvement with a white supremacist motorcycle club, says, “I think George Soros is behind a lot of the funding of the ultra-left, and sometimes violent groups you see out there such as Antifa, and other protestors.” He later threatened a Jewish activist who challenged him.
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Trump endorses, and Vice President Mike Pence campaigns with, Minnesota Republican candidate for Senate, Jason Lewis. Lewis has accused Jews of dual loyalty and has claimed that the “Jewish Lobby” controls the GOP.
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Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, claims Jewish billionaires, Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg, “bought Congress for the Democrats.”
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After running antisemitic campaign advertisements during the 2018 midterms, Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) wins his race to represent Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District in U.S. Congress.
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The day after the Pittsburgh shooting, and one week after a bomb sent to George Soros was intercepted, then-NRCC Chairman Rep. Steve Stiver (R-OH) defends an antisemitic advertisement that depicted a Jewish Congressional candidate surrounded by piles of cash and accused Soros of bankrolling “left-wing mobs paid to riot in the street.” When asked if he thinks it has anything to do with violence against Soros, (who the ad accuses of funding violence), he responds, “It’s a factual ad. It has nothing to do with calling for violence.”
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The National Republican Congressional Committee runs an advertisement in Minnesota's 1st Congressional District attacking Democrat Dan Feehan, by claiming George Soros (depicted surrounded by piles of cash) bankrolls not only Feehan but also “left-wing mobs paid to riot in the streets,” as well as referencing Colin Kaepernick.
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