House GOP Whip Tom Emmer compares campus protesters to "Nazi Germany."

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Tuesday compared pro-Gaza college protesters to Nazis, saying they’re “promoting Hitler’s ‘Final Solution.’”

“For more than a week, the world has watched as pro-terrorist antisemites at American universities exude some of the clearest acts of bigotry against Jewish students on campus since the late 1930s in Nazi Germany,” the Republican from Minnesota said during a news conference with House GOP leadership.

Last week, a pro-Palestinian protester at George Washington University was reportedly spotted with a banner that read, “Final Solution.”

“From forming human chains around Jewish students to block them from walking on campus, to chanting for the total annihilation of Israel, to promoting Hitler's ‘Final Solution,’ it's safe to say these demonstrations are not a movement for peace, as some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have disgustingly referred to them,” Emmer continued. “They are movements of pure antisemitic violence.”

Emmer also hammered Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for suggesting that some Jewish students as “pro-genocide” during a visit to Columbia University last week.

“By embracing pro-terrorist extremists, Ilhan Omar is encouraging violence against Jewish students,” Emmer said. “There should be zero tolerance for antisemitism on our college campuses, in our communities, or anywhere across our country.”