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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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Try the same ban, Rats.


21 posted on 05/11/2021 4:46:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SkyDancer

Do I look like I can sew or embroider? Crayons will just wash off. Darn my poor home economic skills anyway.


22 posted on 05/11/2021 4:50:35 PM PDT by BipolarBob (This is my chainsaw. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: BipolarBob

Can you iron? Just copy the picture on to an iron on paper; oh, wait ... you can’t iron either. *sigh* what to do, what to do ..


23 posted on 05/11/2021 4:54:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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24 posted on 05/11/2021 5:07:10 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Got it, Thanks!!


25 posted on 05/11/2021 5:21:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Succeed ~ So Much For Skydiving)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

No free speech again? Those eugenicists.


26 posted on 05/11/2021 5:25:18 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Germany will never change. Der Fuehrer demands that you wear the Yellow Star which gives you a one way ticket to Auschwitz Birkenau. Die Fuehrerin demands that you will not wear it. Either way, you go to the gas chamber.

Unfortunately, this is what is going on in the United States today. Joe Biden is Die Fuehrerin these days.


27 posted on 05/11/2021 5:25:25 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Maybe not the yellow star, but we need some symbol to wear to show opposition to the mandates.


28 posted on 05/11/2021 5:48:51 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: freespirit2012

Maybe not the yellow star, but we need some symbol to wear to show opposition to the mandates.
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I don’t wear masks often but when I’m forced to, I vary between one that says “Worn under Protest” and “Masks are Totally Useless”.


29 posted on 05/11/2021 6:00:04 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Take all the people with yellow stars to the camps and give them showers.”


30 posted on 05/11/2021 6:03:09 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: hecticskeptic

Some of the masks around here have “F**k Mills” (without the asterisks) in recognition of the great job the governor of Maine is doing. Window and bumper stickers too.

Warms the cockles of my heart.


31 posted on 05/11/2021 6:07:56 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Use a red star. They will like that.


32 posted on 05/11/2021 6:16:03 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789! )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Is it okay to wear a yellow star in protest pf banning yellow stars?


33 posted on 05/11/2021 8:31:38 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: DoodleBob

I think people donning the yellow star are guilty of cultural appropriation. Having to wear the humiliating and identifying yellow star was a tactic used by the Nazis to make the Jews objects of derision and to stand out from others as separate. I don’t think their use by latter-day mask protesters is appropriate; it cheapens the horrible conditions the original yellow star brought about for Jews wearing it.


34 posted on 05/11/2021 10:53:22 PM PDT by EinNYC
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