Israhell's "vaccine passport" plot compared to yellow stars, "causing outrage"

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Politicians are Causing Outrage Comparing COVID19 Passports to the Holocaust/Nazi Germany
https://www.stopantisemitism.org/antisemitic-incidents-72/politicians-are-causing-outrage-comparing-covid19-passports-to-the-holocaustnazi-germany

Political activists, including Congressman Madison Cawthorn are comparing the idea of "vaccine passports" to Nazi Germany, with many invoking the yellow Stars of David that Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.

Vaccine passports refer to documentation that would allow those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 to access public spaces such as gyms, malls, museums or theaters that would require such proof in the future.

Israel, which has inoculated the majority of its population of 9 million, has been implementing a vaccine passport system for about a month. Supporters of the idea say it will allow vaccinated people to enjoy a relative return to normalcy while encouraging others to get the vaccine.

But some opponents have implied that the idea of opening recreational spaces to those who aren't at risk of COVID is similar to the Nazis' persecution Europe's Jews, which culminated in genocide.

"Proposals like these smack of 1940s Nazi Germany. We must make every effort to keep America from becoming a 'show your papers society,'" said Cawthorn, a freshman Republican congressman from North Carolina, according to Fox News. "The Constitution and our founding principles decry this type of totalitarianism."

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky caused outrage on Twitter, comparing the passport to the yellow Star of David Jews were forced to wear during WW2 and the Holocaust.

In a Tuesday tweet that has since been deleted, the Libertarians also condemned "banksters and politicians" and displayed a quote, ostensibly by a member of the Rothschild family, about how being able to "issue and control a nation's money" is more important than being able to write laws. The false notion that the Jewish Rothschild family controls international finance is an age-old antisemitic stereotype.

The trend is the latest instance of people, generally but not only on the political right, equating public health mandates they don't like to the Holocaust — a practice that anti-Semitism watchdogs and Holocaust scholars have repeatedly condemned. In the past, anti-lockdown activists have compared COVID-related public health restrictions to the Holocaust. In 2019, before the pandemic, some anti-vaccine activists compared themselves to Jews suffering under the Nazis, also by appropriating yellow stars.