mtg vaccine holocaust comparison
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
  • Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday made another vaccine-Holocaust comparison.
  • She made the analogy based on a local news report about a grocery store.
  • Greene attempted to clarify she only meant "discrimination against Jews in early Nazi years."
  • See more stories on Insider's business page.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia once again compared COVID-19 public health measures to the systematic discrimination and killing of Jews in the Holocaust.

In a tweet early Tuesday morning, Greene linked to a local news report about a grocery store allowing vaccinated customers to shop mask-free if they show proof of vaccination. Part of the report involved employees being able to go mask free if they wore a "vaccination logo displayed on their name badge," according to WVLT 8, a CBS affiliate in Tennessee.

"Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi's forced Jewish people to wear a gold star," Greene tweeted. "Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable."

The "gold star" Greene was referring to, more commonly referred to by historians as a yellow star, were used as identification that Jews were forced to wear by the Nazi regime across occupied territories in Europe during the Holocaust.

Read more: Assassination threats, AOC potshots, and wolf teats: 2 wild weeks inside Marjorie Taylor Greene's Georgia district as it flips a giant middle finger at DC

Greene subsequently lashed out at critics, claiming she was referring to "only the discrimination against Jews in early Nazi years."

Those "early" human rights violations by Nazi forces, such as the compulsory yellow stars and pogroms such as Kristallnacht, directly led to the rounding up of Jews for mass executions and forced labor in concentration camps.

Greene made a similar comparison earlier this month in a tirade against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over mask mandates in the lower chamber.

The freshman congresswoman has a well-documented history of promoting conspiracy theories, several of which involve antisemitic tropes.

In February, Greene was stripped of all her committee assignments by a majority of House members, giving her minimal input on legislation while remaining an elected member of Congress.

Read the original article on Business Insider