Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has been accused of spreading a “disgusting centuries-old anti-Semitic trope” after sharing a social media post accusing Israeli authorities of “medical apartheid” in the fight against COVID-19.

Earlier this week activist group Jewish Voice For Peace shared an edited screenshot of a New York Times article. It originally read, ‘How Israel Became a World Leader in Vaccinating Against COVID-19’, but the group “fixed it for them” by crossing out ‘Vaccinating Against COVID-19’ and replacing it with ‘MEDICAL APARTHEID’ in bright red letters.

The subheading, ‘Badly hit by the coronavirus, Israel has distributed the first of two vaccine doses to more than 10 percent of its population,’ had the addition, ‘excluding the 5 million Palestinians it occupies’.

Iranian-born Ghahraman shared Jewish Voice For Peace’s post on her Instagram account, horrifying the Israel Institute of New Zealand, which called it “disappointing” and the comparison to apartheid, “disgusting”.

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