Anti-Defamation League accuses Fox’s Lara Logan of comparing Fauci to Nazi war criminals

The Anti-Defamation League, along with other Jewish groups and Holocaust tribute organizations, condemned Fox Nation host Lara Logan for comparing the nation’s top infectious disease expert to a Nazi war criminal notorious for his medical experiments on death camp prisoners.

Logan, a once respected investigative reporter become a right-wing expert, announced in an appearance on Fox News on Monday night that “people around the world” had told her that Dr. Anthony Fauci resembled Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor dubbed the “Angel of Death”.

“What you see in Dr. Fauci, this is what people tell me, that he doesn’t represent science to them,” she said. Fox News Primetime. “He represents Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who experimented on Jews during World War II and in concentration camps. “

Logan’s offensive comments quickly sparked a backlash. ADL accuses the award-winning former CBS News reporter of her “outrageous” comparisons.

“As we have said time and time again since the outbreak of this pandemic, there is absolutely no comparison between the mandate to wear a mask, require a vaccine, and other COVID-19 mitigation efforts. with what happened to Jews during the Holocaust,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement.

Greenblatt added: “This includes making strange and insulting comparisons that suggest that Dr Anthony Fauci is somehow similar to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, who is known. with gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.

The Auschwitz Memorial took to Twitter to decry the Fox News character’s remarks, noting that much of Mengele’s atrocities during the Holocaust were committed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

“Exploiting the tragedy of people who became victims of criminal fake medical experiments in Auschwitz in a debate about vaccines, pandemics and those fighting to save lives is shameful.” The museum’s official Twitter account posted. “It’s disrespectful to the victim & a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.”

Meanwhile, the American Jewish Committee called on Logan to apologize for her remarks, calling it “absolutely shameful” for comparing COVID-19 mitigation efforts to the Holocaust.

“Josef Mengele earned his nickname by performing deadly and inhuman medical experiments on prisoners of the Holocaust, including children,” AJC wrote on Twitter. “Lara Logan, the hell these victims have gone through cannot be compared with public health measures. An apology is needed.”

Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment.

Before selling more and more unnecessary rhetoric and conspiracies On Fox News regularly, Logan was once a well-known CBS News reporter and correspondent for the network’s icon 60 minutes News program. That is, until Her fully revealed 2013 story on Benghazi resulted in the network issuing a series of apologies and Logan having to quit.

After leaving CBS News in 2018, Logan made his way to Fox News after becoming “right-wing heroine“To regularly criticize the “moral cowards” in CBS and the mainstream media. Since then, she has reliably pushed obvious hoaxes, asserting that the COVID-19 vaccine is not “really a vaccine, “And warn that border migrants are”virus bomb. ”