'Her ignorance is appalling': Internet supports Jared Moskowitz as he confronts Marjorie Taylor Greene on Ukraine, Nazi remarks

WASHINGTON, DC: Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) went scorched earth on Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during a hearing inside Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

The cause for his strong disapproval was Greene's repeated assertion that modern-day Ukraine is being run by Nazis, per a report from Mediaite.

Specifically, Greene mentioned the Azov battalion, a controversial Ukrainian military unit, and countered a witness's claim that the accusations of neo-Nazism in Ukraine were a result of a “disinformation trope” employed by Vladimir Putin's Russia.

What did Marjorie Taylor Greene say and how did Jared Moskowitz retaliate? 

The Georgia Republican congresswoman held up a prop at one point, showing the headline, and said, “Do you see this headline? This is NBC News. They say that Ukraine’s Nazi problem is real. Even if Putin’s denazification claim is not, so even our own American media, unless you consider NBC or Time magazine misinformation spreaders or disinformation media outlets. This is contrary to what you testified.”

“And there’s frequent pictures all over. Anybody can find them, of Nazis. Here they are. This looks like something you’d see out of Hitler’s Germany – from Ukraine,” the far-right lawmaker argued while holding up a photo.

Florida Democrat Jared Moskowitz responded when he spoke after Greene, saying, “Now I want to address something else that went on in this committee. By another member and I say this as someone whose grandparents, escaped the Holocaust.”

“So my grandmother was part of the Kindertransport out of Germany. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My grandfather, her husband escaped Poland from the pogroms. You know, the idea that we pretend that behavior is acceptable and regular,” he continued.

“There are no concentration camps in Ukraine. They’re not taking babies and shooting them in the air because they’re Jewish. There’s no gas chambers. There’s no ovens. They’re not railing people in. They’re not ripping gold out of people’s mouth. They’re not taking stuff out of their home. They’re not trying to erase a people, the Ukrainians,” Moskowitz asserted.

The Sunshine State congressman remarked in conclusion, “Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler. The only people who know about Nazis and Hitler are the 10 million people and their families who lost their loved ones. Generations of people who were wiped out. It is enough of this disgusting behavior using Nazis as propaganda. You want to talk about Nazis? Get yourself over to the Holocaust Museum, you go see what Nazis did. It’s despicable that we use that and we allow it, and we sit here like somehow it’s regular.”

Rep Greene, in the past, has referred to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “war against Russia in Ukraine.”

She was addressing the coverage of a militia, with roots in Nazism, in the eastern part of Ukraine by US media outlets.

Since 2014, this militia has been fighting Russian separatists in the region. However, it is important to note that this militia is a controversial entity, even within Ukraine, and it is not indicative of the Ukrainian military as a whole.

Internet skewers Marjorie Taylor Greene as Jared Moskowitz’s response won over netizens

One X user remarked, "@DrAnnaPirates - Marjorie Taylor Greene gets a lesson in history."

Another user wrote, "Trump called the Nazis in Charlotte, NC "fine people". He has also praised most of the world's dictators and openly admired how they "handle things'. Marge Greene is a distraction... never forget who the greatest threat to America's future is!"

Another user said, "Good for him. Marjorie Taylor Greene is despicable."

One user claimed, "Moskowitz is a legend."

Another X user remarked, "He just let @RepMTG, and the rest of the bunch know what is what!!! Enough with the anti-Semitic vitriol. #Moskowitz."

Finally, this user tweeted, "Thank you for saying this, @JaredEMoskowitz. Her ignorance is appalling."

 

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