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A man protests coronavirus restrictions with a yellow star and a photo of Anne Frank outside the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. (@ZSKberlin/Twitter via JTA)
BERLIN (JTA) – Germany’s antisemitism commissioner is urging a crackdown on protesters who don yellow stars to complain about the pandemic lockdown.
Speaking Friday, Felix Klein urged authorities across Germany to bar protesters from using the symbol, saying it relativizes the Holocaust. The Nazis forced Jews to wear a yellow Star of David as a means of humiliating them and marking them for further persecution, deportation and murder.
Some demonstrators have used the star, emblazoned with the words “non-vaccinated” in a Hebraicized script, to boost their claim of being persecuted for opposing coronavirus policies.
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Germany’s special envoy on anti-Semitism Felix Klein. (Courtesy German Interior Ministry)
But the question remains whether to introduce a single law to reform all the texts at once, or to approach them one by one.
Germany has already reformed several Nazi-era laws over the years, including the infamous Paragraph 175 that criminalized sex between men and was repealed in 1994.
More recently, a 1933 ban on medical practitioners “advertising” that they carry out pregnancy terminations was partially scrapped in 2019.
But some pertinent examples remain, including a law on altering names introduced by Nazi interior minister Wilhelm Frick in 1938.
Seated from left to right; Hitler; Rudolf Hess, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party; Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag; Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Wilhelm Frick, German Minister of the Interior, at the Sports Palace, in Berlin, on Sept. 26, 1938. (AP Photo)