From TVNZ – Breakfast…
Protesters using the atrocities of the Holocaust as a comparison to New Zealand’s Covid-19 restrictions have been condemned.
Holocaust Centre of New Zealand chairwoman Deborah Hart told Breakfast the use of placards was “absolutely appalling and very upsetting” to those in the Jewish community, particularly to survivors and their families.
“What you have to understand is what the Holocaust was, it was the deliberate attempt to exterminate the Jews. It was defined by antisemitic ideology, propaganda and legislation and it was the systematic implementation of unprecedented extermination techniques.
“Of course it wasn’t just aimed at the Jews — those who were gay, disabled, political opponents. Eleven million people murdered, six million of them Jews — 1.5 million children murdered in the Holocaust. To equate that to what is happening now, it’s just a complete false equivalence.”
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