Washington State Rep. Jim Walsh compared coronavirus vaccine mandates to the Holocaust in a video posted to his Facebook page. He later apologized. (Screenshot via JTA)
JTA — Republican lawmakers in Washington state and Alaska likened coronavirus mandates to Nazi laws — a phenomenon that Holocaust remembrance and Jewish groups have said is offensive.
State Rep. Jim Walsh of Washington wore a yellow star over the weekend in a speech to conservative activists in Lacey.
“It’s an echo from history,” Walsh wrote on a Facebook page where the event was recorded, The Seattle Times reported. “In the current context, we’re all Jews.”