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‘These Comparisons Are Increasingly Dangerous’: COVID-19 Skeptics’ Disturbing Obsession With the Holocaust

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is just the latest high-profile figure to equate COVID restrictions with the Shoah. Holocaust experts warn it could lead to more antisemitic attacks and create a new wave of deniers

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Washington

Jan. 25, 2022

Jan. 25, 2022

Washington

Jan. 25, 2022

Jan. 25, 2022

WASHINGTON – The use of Holocaust imagery to compare COVID-19 health measures to the Nazis’ policies has reached new levels in recent weeks and could help spread antisemitism and Holocaust denial, Holocaust studies experts say.

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