‘Debasing history’s darkest period’
“There is no equivalence between public health measures, laws and vaccinations aimed at saving lives to the Holocaust,” the Anti-Defamation Commission said.
THE Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has condemned the “ugly” sighting of a man wearing a concentration camp uniform in Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday, comparing the mandating of COVID-19 vaccines and proposed pandemic laws to Nazi Germany.
A Jewish woman in her 50s, who has Holocaust survivors in her family, noticed the man on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets holding a sign saying “History repeats”.
A video of the man was sent to ADC chair Dr Dvir Abramovich, who blasted the display.
“There is no equivalence between public health measures, laws and vaccinations aimed at saving lives to the Holocaust,” he said.
“Nothing in Australia comes even close to the indescribable atrocities carried out on an industrial scale by the Nazis, and to suggest that we are on the road to Auschwitz is beyond words and divorced from reality.”
Stating, “Such outrageous equations are insensitive and debase history’s darkest period,” Abramovich added, “People can, of course, voice their disagreement with government policy, but they should not appropriate the Holocaust to advance their causes.”
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