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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rory Sullivan

Holocaust has been trivialised in anti-lockdown protests, says Israel

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Demonstrators who liken Covid-19 restrictions to the Holocaust are guilty of fuelling anti-semitism, Israel has said.

In a report published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the country’s diaspora affairs ministry warned that such comparisons were a leading driver of anti-Jewish hate crimes in Europe and North America in 2021. So was the backlash over Israel’s actions in Gaza last year, it added.

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