MINNEAPOLIS – Jews have taken strong exception to Republican Scott Jensen for likening Democratic Governor Tim Walz to Hitler for restrictions that the governor imposed, including face masks, during the CoVid pandemic. Jensen has been making Hitler and Holocaust comparison in his campaign to unseat Walz. Such a comparison trivializes the Holocaust, said Ethan Roberts, a lobbyist for the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. “Generally speaking, no one should ever compare things to the Holocaust unless we’re talking about genocide. Full stop,” Roberts said. “Such comparisons are inflammatory.” Roberts called Jensen’s assertions “deeply historically inaccurate” and “an extremely bad analogy,” The Holocaust, he said, wasn’t a story about incrementalism but a story about genocide.

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