The president of the Holocaust commemoration group From The Depths, Edward Mosberg, said Monday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., "should be removed from office" for calling migrant detention centers concentration camps.
"She should be removed from Congress. She's spreading anti-Semitism, hatred, and stupidity," Mosberg, a Polish-born real estate developer and philanthropist who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps, told The New York Post. "The people on the border aren't forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn't know the difference, either they're playing stupid or they just don't care.
Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter in June:
"Concentration camps are considered by experts as 'the mass detention of civilians without trial.' And that's exactly what this administration is doing."
Mosberg later invited her on a tour of European concentration camps, a tour Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, took previously.
"Her statement is evil. It hurts a lot of people. At the concentration camp, we were not free," Mosberg said. "We were forced there by the Germans who executed and murdered people — there's no way you can compare."
He added, "If you're not there, you will never know what happened. She doesn't want to learn — she's looking for excuses. I would like to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in stupidity."