By Dan Satherley on Newshub…
The Jewish community is horrified Kiwis opposed to vaccinations and COVID-19 restrictions are using Holocaust and Nazi imagery in their protests.
Thousands descended on Parliament on Tuesday, brandishing signs comparing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to Hitler, linking the media with the Nazis and calling for a new round of Nuremberg trials (the original resulting in death penalties for many senior Nazi figures).
At least one protester was reportedly wearing a Star of David with the word ‘unvaccinated’ – comparing themselves to the Jewish under Nazi occupation prior to World War II, who were made to wear badges to “mark them out for segregation and discrimination”.
Making things worse, the protest took place 83 years to the day since Kristallnacht – the day the Holocaust began.
“Over 80 years later here in New Zealand we are seeing the Star of David being misused for ‘freedom’ protests and protestors invoking the Holocaust for their own ends,” the Holocaust Centre of NZ said in a statement on Wednesday.
“If people wish to protest, they should do so without citing the industrialised genocide of 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million Jewish children, as the reason they need to do so.”
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