(Jewish Group) Jewish Groups Condemn Anti-Vaccine Protesters Wearing Yellow Star Patches in Quebec [View all]

Jewish groups are speaking out against anti-vaccine passport protesters who were pictured wearing yellow stars in Quebec, Canada, on Tuesday.

Photographs and videos taken of a protest outside the Econofitness gym in the Quebec city Laval show multiple people with yellow stars attached to their clothes. "Sans vaccine," French for "no vaccine," was visibly imprinted on at least some of the stars.

Nazis forced Jews to wear the yellow star during the Holocaust, and the symbol has been appropriated by activists opposing vaccines. Jewish organizations, including the Montreal Holocaust Museum, spoke out against the Laval protesters and anyone else using the stars while speaking out against vaccines.

"Comparisons between vaccine passports and yellow Stars of David are offensive, inaccurate, and attempt to trivialize the painful history of the Holocaust," the museum posted on its official Twitter account.

"This symbol allowed the Nazis to target, persecute, and murder millions of Jews," the Montreal Holocaust Museum continued in follow-up tweets. "As a result, the yellow star has become a painful symbol of Jewish discrimination and the Holocaust."

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Cultural appropriation at it's finest, and often ignored as "appropriation" or even "anti-Semitic."