'It was disgusting. It was vile,' Governor Mike DeWine said Wednesday about an anti-Semitic sign seen during a coronavirus protest outside the Ohio statehouse last weekend.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine spoke out Wednesday against protesters who brought anti-Semitism into the mix at a demonstration last weekend opposing the state's stay-at-home order.
A protester is seen with an Open Ohio sign at a rally to protest the stay-at-home order amid the Coronavirus pandemic in Columbus, Ohio on April 20, 2020. - For the third time in the last week, hundreds of protesters gathered at the Ohio State House to protest the stay home order that is in effect until May 1st. On April 22, Governor Mike DeWine denounced anti-Semitic signs that were seen at a protest last weekend, calling the signs"disgusting" and"vile.
The signs, which portrayed a rat bearing the Star of David on its side with the phrase"the real plague" above its head,"play on some of the oldest anti-Semitic tropes around," Pasch said."It's unfortunate that I was not surprised by it. It's not new."
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