Fake News and Holocaust Imagery: COVID Anti-vaxxers Around the World Take Aim at Israel
With its vaccine success and green passport program in full swing, Israel is finding itself at the center of COVID conspiracy theories old and new from anti-vaccination activists
As Israel draws international attention as a COVID vaccine success story, and as the country’s ability to document inoculation with vaccine passports has allowed for something resembling a return to normal life, anti-vaccine activists have taken notice.
While they do battle in their own countries against COVID mitigation measures, inoculation campaigns and, most recently, the implementation of vaccine passports in their own countries, activists from both sides of the political spectrum have turned to the modern weapon of fake news to distort perceptions of Israel’s experience.