{"id":1219151,"date":"2022-01-16T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219151"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:19:13","slug":"exclusive-zoa-urges-immediate-resignation-of-florida-democrat-nikki-fried-over-sick-demented-hitler-desantis-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-zoa-urges-immediate-resignation-of-florida-democrat-nikki-fried-over-sick-demented-hitler-desantis-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE \u2014 ZOA Urges Immediate Resignation of Florida Democrat Nikki Fried over \u2018Sick, Demented\u2019 Hitler-DeSantis Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-zoa-urges-immediate-resignation-of-florida-democrat-nikki-fried-over-sick-demented-hitler-desantis-comparison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein expressed outrage after Florida Agriculture Commissioner and Democrat candidate for governor Nikki Fried compared her potential general election opponent Gov. Ron DeSantis to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, calling her remarks \u201cthe ugliest hate speech I\u2019ve ever heard\u201d while urging for her immediate resignation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/01\/14\/listen-fl-democrat-gubernatorial-hopeful-nikki-fried-likens-ron-desantis-to-hitler\/\"><span>likening<\/span><\/a><span> of Gov. Ron DeSantis to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democrat candidate for governor in the Sunshine State, the nation\u2019s oldest pro-Israel organization released an exclusive statement to <\/span><i><span>Breitbart News<\/span><\/i><span> on Sunday calling on Democrats to condemn her \u201csick, demented\u201d comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cEspecially as a child of Holocaust survivors who lost aunts, uncles and grandparents to the horrors of Hitler, I urge that Florida Democrat Nikki Fried be condemned by Democratic Party officials in Florida and America for her sick, demented comparison of the great Republican Governor DeSantis to one of the Jew-hating monsters in history, Adolf Hitler,\u201d Klein stated.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19137594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/florida-gov-ron-desantis-r-july21-tampa-gage-skidmore-flickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19137594\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/florida-gov-ron-desantis-r-july21-tampa-gage-skidmore-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Ron DeSantis speaking with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. (Gage Skidmore\/Flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is not only absurd, it diminishes and even whitewashes what the Jewish people and the world endured for six long years,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He then called for Fried\u2019s prompt departure, adding that her Jewish background made her remarks all the more infuriating.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI also urge that officials join me in demanding that Fried should immediately resign,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe fact that Fried is Jewish only increases my anguish. There is clearly something emotionally and intellectually very wrong with Nikki Fried.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShe should be removed from public life and from having any say in people\u2019s lives,\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18066506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Morton.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18066506\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/Morton.jpeg\" alt=\"Morton Klein of Zionist Organization of America attends a hearing at the National Oversight and Government Reform Committee on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Capitol Hill on November 8, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Morton Klein of Zionist Organization of America attends a hearing at the National Oversight and Government Reform Committee on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Capitol Hill on November 8, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Calling for her to \u201cgo away,\u201d Klein deemed her comments \u201cespecially insane\u201d due to DeSantis\u2019 time-tested support for Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHer beliefs are especially insane since Gov. DeSantis was the greatest congressional friend to the Jewish State and went to Israel as his first international trip as governor,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd I\u2019m proud to have accompanied him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Klein concluded by urging Jewish groups and leading figures to join in the ZOA\u2019s condemnation and call for Fried\u2019s swift removal.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cEvery Jewish organization and its leaders must condemn Fried and demand her resignation immediately,\u201d he stated, calling her remarks \u201cthe ugliest hate speech I\u2019ve ever heard.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe dare not allow in this new era of woke irrationality for dangerous analogies like this to go unanswered,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Fried\u2019s remarks, which included her deeming actions DeSantis\u2019 has taken as governor \u201cexactly what Hitler did to the Jews back during World War II,\u201d were made during an interview that aired on Florida Public Radio\u2019s \u201cThe Florida Roundup\u201d on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the interview, Fried was asked by host Melissa Ross if she regretted her past likenings of the Florida governor to an authoritarian and dictator, to which Fried doubled down, saying she did not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNot at all,\u201d she replied. \u201cGrowing up in Miami, and having neighbors that were Cubans, hearing stories of so many of our Floridians who have left dictatorships, and communism, and socialist countries, and coming here to the state of Florida for capitalism, for open opportunities to succeed \u2014 he is doing everything possible to take away power from local governments, taking away people\u2019s ability to protest, making it harder to vote, talking about banning books \u2014 that\u2019s what dictators do.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cInstead of listening and trying to govern with the people, he is trying to govern over the people,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 44-year-old Fried then claimed to have seen Hitler\u2019s ascension.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m sorry \u2014 I\u2019m a student of history, too,\u201d she said. \u201cI saw the rise of Hitler; I\u2019ve learned of those stories.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She was then interrupted by the host and asked if she was comparing DeSantis to the Nazi leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn a lot of ways, yes,\u201d she replied. \u201cI have studied Hitler and how he got to power, wanting his own militia and having his own\u2014.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After Ross noted other states possessed militias, Fried said those states had different motivations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe reason why this governor wants it is different than the other states that have been utilizing it for emergency purposes,\u201d she said. \u201cThis governor is doing it for the sole purposes of power and doing so to make fear and instill that \u2014 to blame people for what is happening in their lives, blaming certain parts of our society and our culture, and that\u2019s exactly what Hitler did to the Jews back during World War II.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After being informed her comparison could be viewed as offensive, Fried was unmoved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDo I think that we\u2019re going to get to this extent of Hitler\u2019s power? Of course not,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the rise of his power and what he did to scapegoat certain parts, in especially the Jewish community, in Germany and how he utilized going after the media, going after and scapegoating people and blaming people and putting fear and then taking over the military \u2014 that\u2019s what this governor is doing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After her remarks went public, political voices from Florida blasted Fried\u2019s \u201cdangerous,\u201d \u201coffensive,\u201d and \u201cfalse\u201d equation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>If we had an honest media instead of DNC stenographers, reporters would be criticizing<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiFried\"><span>@NikkiFried<\/span><\/a><span>\u2018s dishonest and offensive claim that<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\"><span>@GovRonDeSantis<\/span><\/a><span> is the modern Hitler,\u201d wrote DeSantis\u2019 press secretary Christina Pushaw.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSuch a comparison trivializes Hitler\u2019s crimes against humanity,\u201d she added. \u201cThis is not funny, it\u2019s sick.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If we had an honest media instead of DNC stenographers, reporters would be criticizing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiFried?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NikkiFried<\/a> &#8216;s dishonest and offensive claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> is the modern Hitler. Such a comparison trivializes Hitler&#8217;s crimes against humanity. This is not funny, it&#8217;s sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1482148190908420097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a Jew, I am repulsed by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiFried\"><span>@NikkiFried<\/span><\/a><span> comparing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\"><span>@GovRonDeSantis<\/span><\/a><span> to Hitler,\u201d wrote Florida Rep. Randy Fine (R).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNo Governor has done more to help Jews in their state than Governor DeSantis,\u201d he added. \u201cShe needs to disavow her repugnant anti-Semitism \u2014 or resign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a Jew, I am repulsed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiFried?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NikkiFried<\/a> comparing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> to Hitler.  No Governor has done more to help Jews in their state than Governor DeSantis.   She needs to disavow her repugnant anti-Semitism \u2014 or resign.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChristinaPushaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoteRandyFine\/status\/1482445237796679683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cHitler systematically murdered 6 million Jews and appx 3 million others,\u201d wrote Gabriel Groisman, Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\"><span>@GovRonDeSantis<\/span><\/a><span> is loved by the Jewish community and has led our state with dignity on so many issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiFried\"><span>@NikkiFried<\/span><\/a><span>, Your desperation is showing,\u201d he added. \u201cDisagreeing with his policies doesn\u2019t make him Hitler. Low.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hitler systematically murdered 6 million Jews and appx 3 million others. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> is loved by the Jewish community and has led our state  with dignity on so many issues.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiFried?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NikkiFried<\/a>, Your desperation is showing. Disagreeing with his policies doesn\u2019t make him Hitler. Low.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Gabriel Groisman (@GabeGroisman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabeGroisman\/status\/1482507788416954369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cTo think of Nikki Fried as a student of anything is pretty laughable given her lack of accomplishments,\u201d wrote Helen Aguirre Ferre, executive director of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat isn\u2019t funny is the denigration of the memory of more than 12 million souls who perished from the Holocaust,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To think of Nikki Fried as a student of anything is pretty laughable given her lack of accomplishments. What isn\u2019t funny is the denigration of the memory of more than 12 million souls who perished from the Holocaust.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/adxN90ouis\">https:\/\/t.co\/adxN90ouis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Helen Aguirre Ferr\u00e9 (@helenaguirrefer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/helenaguirrefer\/status\/1482361277854924800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein expressed outrage after Florida Agriculture Commissioner and Democrat candidate for governor Nikki Fried compared her potential general election opponent Gov. 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