Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the Democratic Party’s 2024 nominee for vice president, is facing fierce backlash after he compared Anne Frank hiding from Nazis in Germany before dying in a concentration camp to the plight of illegal immigrants in the United States.
Now the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., is condemning any such comparisons as “never acceptable” and “deeply offensive.”
“Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish,” the museum stated on X. “Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable.”
It continued, “Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.”
While the post from the museum didn’t include Walz’s name, it came one day after the leftist governor said children in Minneapolis are “hiding in their houses” because of President Donald Trump’s effort to enforce immigration laws through Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
“We have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside,” he said at a press conference after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent. “Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
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