Every Jewish Democrat in the US House of Representatives issued a joint statement on Monday condemning conservative commentator Tucker Carlson for platforming a Holocaust revisionist. 

In the statement, the 24 House members wrote that they were “appalled” that Carlson “hosted and promoted Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper on his podcast.” The lawmakers argued that Cooper downplayed the Holocaust by stating that “Jews in concentration camps ‘ended up dead’ only because the Nazis did not have the resources to care for them.”

“This revisionist and morally repugnant retelling of history is an insult to the six million Jews who were methodically murdered at the hands of the Nazi regime and is especially dangerous now as antisemitism is on the rise globally,” the representatives wrote. 

“The normalization of Nazism is unacceptable and dangerous, and must be forcefully condemned,” they continued. “Americans deserve to know that their leaders will rebuke the cancers of antisemitism and Nazism whenever and wherever they appear.”

Carlson hosted popular historian Cooper on his podcast last Monday for a wide-ranging discussion on topics ranging from World War II to the Jonestown cult. During the conversation, Cooper appeared to downplay the Holocaust and argued that the US was on the “wrong side” of the war. He also asserted that Winston Churchill, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, “was the chief villain of World War II.” Cooper also suggested that the slaughter of six million Jews in concentration camps was “humane” because the Nazis did not have food to feed the “prisoners of war.”

The interview drew widespread backlash from both sides of the political aisle. Conservative commentator Ben Domenech called Carlson’s interview “extremely disappointing.” Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (WY) accused Carlson of spreading “pro-Nazi propaganda.” Political analyst Francois Valentin wrote that the interview between Carlson and Cooper “feels like a skit from ‘Succession,’” referencing the popular HBO show. Jewish US Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) called Cooper’s Holocaust revisionism “deeply disturbing.”

The White House also issued a statement blasting Carlson, saying that “giving a microphone to a Holocaust denier who spreads Nazi propaganda is a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans, to the memory of the over 6 million Jews who were genocidally murdered by Adolf Hitler, to the service of the millions of Americans who fought to defeat Nazism, and to every subsequent victim of antisemitism.”

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