Canadian Jewish group angered by Holocaust imagery at anti-mask protest

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Canadian Jewish group angered by Holocaust imagery at anti-mask protest

March 28th, 2021

Awake Goy

B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish organization advocating on the behalf of Canadian Jews, expressed its outrage Friday over the presence of Holocaust imagery at a protest against coronavirus regulations in Calgary last week, Newsweek reported.

The Canadian Jewish organization said that the use of such imagery by the protesters “tarnished” the memory of Holocaust victims.

Photos that surfaced from the March 20 protest showed one protester posing with a yellow Star of David with the marking “Mask Exempt.” Other demonstrators were shown carrying placards referring to conspiracy theories, particularly in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, vaccines and 5G, as well as QAnon.

B’nai Brith Canada also expressed its concern over a column published in the Calgary Herald, which referred to the Nuremberg Trials in connection to what they believe to be a Canadian government plot to force people to vaccinate. The newspaper later clarified that “The horrors of the Holocaust are without precedent, and no modern-day event should ever be compared to it.”

“The author’s reference to the Nuremberg Code was not to draw equivalency but to underscore the historical fact that the Nuremberg Code formed the basis for modern medical ethics, the first principle of which is that a person must be able to choose if they want to receive experimental medical treatments,” the Herald wrote.

Beyond this incident, numerous other cases of using Holocaust imagery in relation to the coronavirus were mentioned by B’nai Brith, such as a woman selling T-shirts with a yellow Star of David and the word “Covidcaust” written on them, along with another op-ed in the The Globe and Mail that said the coronavirus lockdown is akin to Anne Frank’s experience hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

“The abuse of the memory of the Holocaust to serve a toxic and conspiratorial agenda must stop,” CEO of B’nai Brith Canada Michael Mostyn noted in a statement to Newsweek. “There is room for a healthy debate in Canadian society on how to tackle COVID-19, but the cheap use of Holocaust imagery is horrifying and beyond the pale.”

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