Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized this week for implying that Jews had more freedoms during the Holocaust than unvaccinated Americans. But Kennedy isn't alone in invoking Nazi Germany to criticize COVID-19 rules. Other anti-vaxxers, politicians and media pundits have drawn similar false analogies. On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27), see what survivors have to say about this troubling rhetoric. Plus, learn more about growing anti-Semitism in the world.
Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years. Kennedy’s comments, …
Just days before Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is on Thursday, Robert F Kennedy Jr. told a Washington, DC rally that Anne Frank had it easier than those living under the US's COVID-19 restrictions. "Even in Hitler's Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland," Kennedy, who has spoken out …
Police told to detain activists trivialising the Holocaust in acts to be classified as ‘secondary antisemitism’ Police in Berlin have been authorised to crack down on protesters wearing badges resembling the yellow “Judenstern” (Jews’ star) and other symbols associated with the Nazi era at …
Holocaust trivialization has become increasingly mainstream among many politicians, grassroots movements, in the media, and online. Holocaust …
(CNN) — As a child of Holocaust survivors, nothing is more sacred and important to me than preserving the memory of this period. The international community has made great strides in educating the world about it. Just last week, the United Nations adopted a resolution by consensus against Holocaust …
