By Anna Harcourt on ReNews…
Thousands of people gathered at Parliament today to protest vaccine mandates and lockdown. While many held banners about freedom or Covid, a surprisingly large number focussed on Nazi insignia, apartheid and Trump. The protest occurred as research, released today, showed New Zealand’s most recent Delta lockdown resulted in a sharp increase in Covid-19 disinformation related to far-right ideologies.
One anti-vax protester wore a star of David, hand-lettered with the words ‘unvaccinated’.
“It’s actually just disgusting,” says Jewish Council spokesperson Juliet Moses. “I know Holocaust survivors, there are still Holocaust survivors in New Zealand – one of them still has the yellow star of David he was forced to wear. He was in a concentration camp.”
Anti-mandate protestors may be going through hardship, she says, and “may be without jobs or at risk of losing a job or feeling ostracised by society, but that is nothing on the level of Holocaust victims went through.”
Protestors have grabbed onto “the most horrendous form of human rights atrocity persecution they can think of… so they use that to make their point very dramatically.”
Read the full article on ReNews here.
