Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouts at journalists as she goes through security outside the House chamber on Capitol Hill, Jan. 12, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Caballero-Reynolds-AFP via Getty Images) News Politics Gazpacho police? Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Nazi faux pas goes viral Facebook Twitter Email SMS WhatsApp Share By Ron Kampeas, JTA | February 10, 2022 If Marjorie Taylor Greene sets out for another repentant trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, she might want to stop by a Spanish restaurant on the way. That way the Georgia Republican congresswoman can figure out the difference between the Gestapo, Hitler’s atrocity-committing shock troops, and gazpacho, the yummy Spanish cold soup. In an interview on the pro-Trump One America News Network, Taylor Green laced into investigations by a special House committee into the violent Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol using the mangled kind of Nazi comparisons that Jewish groups have implored her to avoid. “Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. Gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police, spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens who want to come talk to their representatives,” Taylor Greene said. The Republican Accountability Project, a Twitter feed run by Republicans seeking to purge their party of acolytes of former President Donald Trump, on Wednesday posted a snippet of the interview. Just to clear things up, @RepMTG Gazpacho: a vegetable-based Spanish cold soupGestapo: Nazi Germany's secret police pic.twitter.com/T9q76r706G — The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) February 9, 2022 Sarah Longwell, a founder of the group, saw the tweet going viral and seized an opportunity. “Our team is covering the GOP from soup to nuts,” she said. Jewish liberals shared Taylor Greene’s statement with puns, some more digestible than others. “I join her in her fight against both the Gazpacho police and their collaborationist allies in the Vichyssoise,” said lawyer Akiva Cohen, punning on the French collaborationist Vichy regime and another continental cold soup. “The things the gazpacho police would do to the juice!” said Eric Muller, a Holocaust scholar at the University of North Carolina. “In their tortilla chambers!” There were plenty of obvious references to a certain Seinfeld episode. “MTG thinks Pelosi is a soup Nazi,” said Andy Levy, a podcaster. There were also plenty of regrets that Taylor Greene did not confuse “gulag,” the Soviet prison system, with “goulash” — a soup that can be served hot and cold. On a more serious note, some observers were dismayed that Taylor Greene, despite her visit to the Holocaust Museum and apologizing for using Holocaust analogies, continued the habit. “Folks, I’m beginning to get the sense that Marjorie Taylor Greene’s trip to the Holocaust Museum didn’t actually take,” tweeted Yair Rosenberg of The Atlantic. All you people claiming that there's no such thing as the Gazpacho Police clearly are unfamiliar with the Soup Nazi. — Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) February 9, 2022 By the end of the evening, Taylor Greene was joining in the fun. “No soup for those who illegally spy on Members of Congress, but they will be thrown in the goulash,” she said on her congressional Twitter account, adding the hashtags “#Gazpacho #Gestapo” Here are some more highlights from Wednesday night: Next thing you know, the gazpacho police will come for your mazel tov cocktails pic.twitter.com/3MvCvGt86U — Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 9, 2022 With the Gazpacho Police, every crime is a cold case — Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) February 9, 2022 Any gibbering idiot knows that the Gazpacho were the feared secret enforcement arm of the Spanish Inquisition. The Nazi regime was notorious for adulterating chicken soup with pork dumplings as a vicious and unkosher act of anti-Semitism. History demands rigor. https://t.co/zZrE4X84dP — David Simon (@AoDespair) February 9, 2022 Dear @RepMTG the Gazpacho police was created by me in 1993 to make sure that no one will add Tabasco or jalalpeño or strange things to my beloved soup! Please don’t blame anybody else but me…stop by for a glass anytime. Don’t forget your mask and vaccination card!😜 https://t.co/srhSZXWv6L — José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) February 9, 2022 Ron Kampeas Ron Kampeas is the D.C. bureau chief at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. JTA Content distributed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news service. Also On J. Bay Area JewBelong’s edgy #EndJewHate billboards return to Bay Area Local Voice As a South African Jew, Amnesty's ‘apartheid’ label for Israel is absurd Opinion Republicans must stop obstructing antisemitism monitor's confirmation Small Bites Midnite Bagel goes brick-and-mortar; etc. Subscribe to our Newsletter Enter Email Sign Up