Ever since the COVID-19 vaccine was created, analogies to the Holocaust began. People are comparing vaccine mandates and wearing masks to how Nazis controlled Germany and what they made many people do.

  You are not being forced to get vaccinated like how the Nazis forced the Jewish people to wear yellow stars and live in a ghetto building.

  You are not being forced to wear a mask like how the Nazis took millions of people to the concentration camps and killed them or worked them to death.

  It’s extremely frustrating as someone who is Jewish to see these completely biased and extremely untrue analogies take over the internet, and even be told by people in government.

  Kelly Townsend, an American Republican politician, has taken part in the comparison of the push for vaccination being tantamount to Nazi Germany.

  On her twitter acount @AZKellyT, she posted a tweet on September 12, 2021 of an image of needles making up a swastika, the symbol that the Nazis used. She captioned it by saying “If your vaccinated but you’re complaining about the unvaccinated then what you’re really saying is that you don’t think the vaccines work.”

   Not only is this statement blatantly false,  but the incorporation of the swastika is extremely offensive and disgusting, especially to the groups who were targeted by the Nazis. I believe that by everyone getting the COVID-19 vaccine the pandemic will slowly end, which in no way makes me similar to the Nazis who terrorized the european continent. 

  Another instance where a symbol from the holocaust was used to further express anti-vaccinators’ views was at a government hearing in Topeka, Kansas during November of 2021. 

  A group of people who came to the hearing showed up wearing yellow stars of david. Used during the Holocaust, the Nazis would force Jewish people to wear them, making them easily identifiable. 

  These people had to physically make these stars and clip them onto their shirt, and found nothing wrong or offensive doing it. Wearing the star, they hoped to symbolize their non-existent oppression, yet only managed to look idotic and anger many people due to their insensitivity on a very hard and heavy subject matter.

  Hate crimes towards Jewish people have been on the rise since 2020, and adding these comparisons of Covid-19 to the holocaust is only making the sitiuation worse. If we don’t put a stop to this soon, the problem will only keep getting worse.