Marjorie Taylor Greene Challenged by Democrat to Visit Holocaust Museum

Jewish congressman Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat, challenged Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, on Wednesday to visit a Holocaust museum after she made unfound claims that the Ukrainian people were Nazis.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he claimed that he wanted to “denazify” the Eastern European country.

Putin’s denazification claim has received widespread backlash from critics who believe Russia is infringing on Ukraine’s sovereignty in a power grab. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish and had family who died in the Holocaust, has condemned the Russian president’s claim.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on China on Wednesday, Greene presented two articles about Nazis in Ukraine, one was from Time magazine in January 2021 titled “Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members” and the other was from NBC News in March 2022 titled “Ukraine’s Nazi problem is real, even if Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim isn’t.”

“It’s amazing to me that just in a few years time, it’s now considered misinformation to talk about the Nazis in Ukraine,” Greene said at the hearing.

Newsweek reached out to Greene’s office via email and Moskowitz’s office via phone for comment.

Moskowitz, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, later replied to Greene’s comments, without specifically naming the congresswoman, saying at the hearing: “There are no concentration camps in Ukraine…There’s no gas chambers. There’s no ovens…They’re not trying to erase a people.”

“Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler,” he said. “The only people who know about Nazis and Hitler are the 10 million people and their families who lost their loved ones, a generation people who…