'You simply cannot compare the victory of Bernie Sanders, whose kin was murdered in the Holocaust, to the Nazi defeat of France,' Anand Giridharadas said.
Giridharadas' comments came as Matthews continued to face intense backlash for comparing Sanders' early lead in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night to Adolf Hitler's invasion of France in 1940. As results began rolling in, the host of MSNBC'sclaimed that Republicans would release opposition research on the progressive candidate that would likely"kill him" if he secured the Democratic 2020 nomination.
#FireChrisMathews began trending on Twitter Sunday as thousands of Sanders supporters and journalists called for the host to resign or the network to terminate his employment over the remarks. Many users pointed out that the statement was particularly distasteful as the senator, who is Jewish, had lost family members to the Holocaust.
IfNotNow, an American Jewish progressive activist group that opposes the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank,on Saturday evening."The second time in as many weeks that an MSNBC commentator has used Nazi comparisons when talking about @BernieSanders, a Jewish candidate with family that was murdered in the Holocaust," the group tweeted."We demand an apology from @HardballChris—and we're still waiting for @chucktodd's apology.
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