Conservative American talk show host Dennis Prager told Jewish Republican leaders, "They’d still be gassing Jews" if liberals and peace activists had their way. "The left does not understand that Auschwitz was not liberated by peace activists," he said at a reception for Republican governors at the Republican national convention.

Prager also told the politicians, "Gandhi said to the Jews, 'Do not resist Hitler.' Gandhi did a lot of great work in India. You know why? Because when you advocate peaceful resistance against the British, it works. Peaceful resistance against evil does not work."

Several Jews objected to Prager's analogy to the Holocaust, but he said if anyone was offended, "That’s fine with me, so what? Auschwitz was liberated by military people, not by poets and not by peace activists. If one is no longer allowed to say that, we are in a very scary period."