Until Monday, Vish Burra was the producer of Matt Gaetz’s show on the far-right One America News Network. Last week, Burra posted on Xitter an AI-generated cartoon that could not have made Nazis happier. It “depicted him entering a ‘scheming room’ that featured a label with the Star of David. The cartoon portrayed Jewish people as cockroaches that scurried away as he entered the room,” The Wrap reported.
Likening Jews to cockroaches and other vermin “have a long and sordid history, beginning in the medieval period and intensifying during the 19th and early 20th century before reaching the horrific low in Nazi Germany under the Third Reich,” The Daily Beast pointed out.
On Monday, Burra was fired by OANN for his “highly offensive” and “antisemitic” comments, according to The Wrap.
But Burra’s public display of virulent antisemitism was nothing new. OAN anchor Stella Escobedo posted a slew of them on Xitter over the weekend. In one, he called a Jewish woman a “stinky yenta,” for example. In another he defended someone apparently being accosted for wearing a Nazi uniform on Halloween, saying, “it’s 2025… We don’t have to tolerate this anymore.”
