Germany’s anti-Semitism chief urges ban on yellow star to protest lockdowns

Felix Klein urged authorities across Germany to bar protesters from using the symbol, saying it relativises the Holocaust

GERMANY’S ANTI-SEMITISM commissioner is urging a crackdown on protesters who don yellow stars to complain about the pandemic lockdown.

Speaking Friday, Felix Klein urged authorities across Germany to bar protesters from using the symbol, saying it relativizes the Holocaust. The Nazis forced Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as a means of humiliating them and marking them for further persecution, deportation and murder.

Some demonstrators have used the star, emblazoned with the words “non-vaccinated” in a Hebraicised script, to boost their claim of being persecuted for opposing coronavirus policies.

Germany does not require that citizens be vaccinated but is offering to loosen social-distancing restrictions for those who get the shots.

“If people pin so-called Jewish stars on themselves … thereby drawing comparisons that relativize the Holocaust, then the means provided by law should be applied against them,” Klein told Germany’s Tagesspiegel newspaper.

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Photo: A man protests coronavirus restrictions with a yellow star and a photo of Anne Frank outside the Holocaust memorial in Berlin (@ZSKberlin/Twitter)