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Germany wants ban on wearing yellow star to protest pandemic lockdowns
The Times of Israel ^ | May 2021 | Toby Axelrod

Posted on 05/11/2021 3:29:06 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Germany’s antisemitism 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 Hebraicized 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.

M While Holocaust denial is against the law in Germany, relativization skirts the legal boundaries. But it is important to ban this particular abuse of history, German political scientist and antisemitism expert Hajo Funke said in a telephone interview.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Germany; Israel
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; covid; germany; holocaust; israel; lockdown; lockdowns; nuremberg; starofdavid; vaccinated; vaccines; yellowstars
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1 posted on 05/11/2021 3:29:06 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Where can I buy mine?


2 posted on 05/11/2021 3:38:20 PM PDT by BipolarBob (This is my chainsaw. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Too close to the truth for the Ministry of Truth.


3 posted on 05/11/2021 3:39:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Deutchland has no BLM?

What are they?

Buncha racists?


4 posted on 05/11/2021 3:40:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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.

So the German government is going to now persecute those wearing yellow stars. The irony runs deep.


5 posted on 05/11/2021 3:40:25 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Optics.

WHO to open a global pandemic ‘intelligence’ hub in Germany

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/who-to-open-a-global-pandemic-intelligence-hub-in-germany.html


6 posted on 05/11/2021 3:41:15 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They still love to bans things in Germany it seems.... well except migrants from turd world shit holes...


7 posted on 05/11/2021 3:41:23 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Speaking Friday, Felix Klein urged authorities across Germany to bar protesters from using the symbol, saying it relativizes the Holocaust.

I would say that's the point.

8 posted on 05/11/2021 3:42:32 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
You would think the government of Germany would hesitate before reinstating measures of their Nazi past.

Forcing experimental treatment on individuals was specifically addressed in the permissible experiments section of the Nuremberg Code in 1947.
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/

"The great weight of the evidence before us to effect that certain types of medical experiments on human beings, when kept within reasonably well-defined bounds, conform to the ethics of the medical profession generally. The protagonists of the practice of human experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts:"

"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision."

"The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity."

"The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury."

"Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability or death."

"The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment."

"During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible."

9 posted on 05/11/2021 3:43:00 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Germany has anti-free speech laws which should be totally removed.


10 posted on 05/11/2021 3:50:25 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Und vee haf vays af geding vat ve vant!
11 posted on 05/11/2021 3:50:35 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Yaelle; SkyDancer; EinNYC
At the risk of being SJW-like, this strikes me as being a bridge too far. I'm also Christian and not Jewish.

Your perspectives, to the extent you wish to share them, would be much appreciated.

12 posted on 05/11/2021 3:54:53 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

The Yellow Star is from a different era and a different meaning; I can see however why we’d want to wear it as a protest.


13 posted on 05/11/2021 3:58:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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To: BipolarBob
Here you go; needs a bit of modification though:100px-Yellowbadge-logo-svg
14 posted on 05/11/2021 4:05:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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To: SkyDancer

No, I want the whole shirt. Like on Amazon or something. With the word “Unvaccinated” on it. My in-laws think we’re . . . weird for not getting the jab.


15 posted on 05/11/2021 4:12:31 PM PDT by BipolarBob (This is my chainsaw. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The View’s Sunny Hostin, would likely prefer non-vaccers to have to wear a star-like emblem on their clothing to identify them for shunning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8WhXTmvYA


16 posted on 05/11/2021 4:12:38 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

....Germany.... is offering to loosen social-distancing restrictions for those who get the shots....

I dunno. Around here, there is VERY LITTLE in the way of loosening of social-distancing (and masking) restrictions for fully-vaccinated people!!!!


17 posted on 05/11/2021 4:13:16 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: BipolarBob

A few options on Amazon:

https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=unvaccinated+shirt&ref=nb_sb_noss


18 posted on 05/11/2021 4:18:48 PM PDT by Rio
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

19 posted on 05/11/2021 4:19:18 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism. )
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To: BipolarBob

Well you can add whatever you want to it.


20 posted on 05/11/2021 4:45:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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