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Giacomo Lichtner, Associate Professor of History, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

The NZ anti-vax movement’s exploitation of Holocaust imagery is part of a long and sorry history

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During the anti-lockdown protests at parliament last year, I was told about a 15-year-old who stopped to ask someone why they were crying. The person replied they were Jewish and had been upset by Nazi imagery used by some protesters, including swastikas chalked on the ground.

Water bottle in hand, they set about washing these off, until a well-dressed, middle-aged woman threatened to kill them and parliamentary security ushered them away.

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