French anti-vax protesters compare themselves to persecuted Jews

More than 100,000 people marched against vaccine rules, some wearing yellow stars echoing those worn by Jews in WW2; Polish protesters chant ‘Jews behind the pandemic’

Holocaust survivor slams French protesters for comparing vaccine to Nazi horrors (AP/Times of Israel)

A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation.

As more than 100,000 people marched around France against government vaccine rules on Saturday, some demonstrators wore yellow stars recalling the ones the Nazis forced Jews to wear. Other demonstrators carried signs evoking the Auschwitz death camp or South Africa’s apartheid regime, claiming the French government was unfairly mistreating them with its anti-pandemic measures.

'Jews are behind the pandemic' chanted at anti-vaccine protest in Poland (Jerusalem Post)
'Every Pole can see today that behind the ‘pandemic’ are the Jews,' the crowd chanted

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Anger as protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors in France (AP/SMH)

Photo: A yellow star that reads 'not vaccinated' is attached to the back of a protester during a rally in Paris, July 17, 2021 (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)