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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

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Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan wears a yellow Star of David that reads "Never Again" in honor of those killed in the unprecedented assault by Hamas, which triggered an ongoing war, as he addresses members of the UN Security Council at United Nations headquarters October 30, 2023. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP)
October 31, 2023, 7:10 am
Erdan tells UN he’ll don yellow Star of David until it condemns Hamas; Yad Vashem fumes
Provocative pledge to Security Council comes amid growing global frustration with UN body, which hasn’t adopted a single resolution on Israel-Hamas war; Foreign Ministry also irked
By AFP and Jacob Magid
FILE - In this file photo from January 22, 2014, the Yellow Star badge of Heinz-Joachim Aris (Dresden 1941) reading 'Jew' is displayed in a showcase during a press preview in the new special exhibition 'Shoes of the Dead - Dresden and the Shoah' at the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)
March 14, 2023, 4:57 pm
Nazi yellow star badges part of long history of forcing Jews to identify themselves
Patches issued during Holocaust followed centuries in which communities throughout Europe forced Jews to have identifying markers, setting them up to be targeted
By Flora Cassen
In this July 24, 2021, file photo, people stage a protest against the 'green pass' in Milan, Italy. Protesters in Italy and in France have been wearing yellow Stars of David, like the ones Nazis required Jews to wear to identify themselves during the Holocaust. Some carry signs likening vaccine passes to dictatorships. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)
January 27, 2022, 8:56 am
With rising antisemitism, yellow star misuse, Holocaust remembrance grows in urgency
Observers say increase in hatred and proliferation of comparisons between public health restrictions and Nazi persecution of Jews point to need for expanding Holocaust awareness
By Cnaan Liphshiz
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview at the UN Headquarters, on January 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
January 26, 2022, 9:06 am
UN chief decries antisemitism, urges world to ‘stand firm’ against hatred, bigotry
Guterres, at NY synagogue service, decries rise of ‘oldest form of hate and prejudice’; Rabbi Schneier on anti-vaxxers: Wearing yellow star after 1945 ‘is sign of vicious hatred’
By Edith M. Lederer
Police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration against the reinforced measures of the Belgium government to counter the latest spike of the coronavirus in Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 21, 2021. (Olivier Matthys/AP)
November 22, 2021, 12:41 pm
Tens of thousands clash with police in Belgian capital over tighter COVID-19 rules
Several of the demonstrators caught up in the clash wore hoods and carried Flemish nationalist flags, while others wore Nazi yellow stars
By Agencies and ToI Staff
FILE: A protester, right, holds up a sign with a swastika during an anti-vaccine protest outside the Bronx office of Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, November 14, 2021. Former Westchester County executive and gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino, at podium, spoke at the rally. (courtesy, Jeffrey Dinowitz, via Twitter)
November 15, 2021, 11:10 pm
With swastikas and yellow star, anti-vaxxers protest New York Jewish politician
Symbols deployed outside office of Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, whose district includes the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Riverdale
By Ben Sales
Opponents of COVID-19 vaccine mandates rally outside the Kansas Statehouse, October 30, 2021, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
November 1, 2021, 8:46 am
Kansas vaccine opponents rally as union chair’s Holocaust comparison decried
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers says it ‘strongly condemns the offensive and inappropriate comparison’ to WWII atrocities made by district president
By John Hanna
Anti-mask activist wearing a yellow star at the Anchorage Assembly meeting on mask mandates, September 20, 2021 (Screen grab/Twitter)
October 1, 2021, 9:38 am
Anchorage mayor: Anti-maskers’ use of yellow stars as symbol is ‘credit’ to Jews
Mayor of Alaska’s largest city later apologizes for supporting use of Holocaust imagery to liken mask mandates to oppression of Jewish people in Nazi Germany
By AP
Illustrative -- A protester holds a banner depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as a 'puppet' during a demonstration, part of a national day of protest against the mandatory COVID-19 health pass to access most of the public space, in Lille, northern France, on August 7, 2021. (Francois Lo Presti/AFP)
August 10, 2021, 9:08 pm
Frenchwoman faces antisemitism trial over sign calling prominent Jews ‘traitors’
Cassandre Fristot, 34, carried poster during demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions; police say it was ‘manifestly antisemitic’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative -- A protester holds a banner depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as a 'puppet' during a demonstration, part of a national day of protest against the mandatory COVID-19 health pass to access most of the public space, in Lille, northern France, on August 7, 2021. (Francois Lo Presti/AFP)
August 9, 2021, 2:46 pm
French prosecutors open probe into antisemitic sign raised at anti-vaccine rally
Poster lists names of public figures, including prominent Jews, implying they control the media and calling them ‘traitors’; politicians, Israeli embassy decry ‘despicable’ display
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People gather to protest against the COVID-19 vaccination pass in Rome on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
August 2, 2021, 3:47 am
European protesters compare vaccine passes to Holocaust, apartheid
Effort to boost rates by requiring proof of vaccination to attend public events is largely working, but pockets of resistance draw together groups from political extremes
By Colleen Barry
Illustrative: A protester holds a Yellow Star reading 'Not Vaccinated = Jew' as protesters take part in a demonstration in Milan on July 24, 2021, against the introduction of a mandatory 'green pass' for indoor dining and entertainment area, in the aim to limit the spread of the coronavirus. (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)
July 31, 2021, 3:42 am
Oklahoma GOP likens vaccine mandates to Nazi persecution of Jews
Local Republican Party’s Facebook page posts image of yellow Star of David with ‘unvaccinated’ on it; Jewish group says post ‘ill-informed and inappropriate,’ calls for apology
By AP
Illustrative: A yellow star that reads 'not vaccinated' is attached to the back of a protester during a rally in Paris, July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
July 19, 2021, 3:42 pm
Holocaust survivor slams French protesters for comparing vaccine to Nazi horrors
Speaking at memorial ceremony, Joseph Szwarc says comparison is ‘hateful’ after anti-vaccination demonstrators wear yellow stars, hold banners referencing Auschwitz
By AP
In this Wednesday, May 19, 2021 file photo, Belarusian journalist Katsiaryna Barysevich, who was sentenced to six months over her investigation into a protester's death, shows her yellow prison's label to colleagues upon her release from the prison in Komarovka, Belarus (AP Photo)
June 5, 2021, 6:46 am
Yellow tags mark political prisoners in Belarus, evoking Nazi yellow stars
Human rights group says at least 460 political prisoners are being held in penitentiaries on criminal charges related to protests against authoritarian President Lukashenko
By YURAS KARMANAU
Nashville hat shop hatWRKS apologized for selling yellow star patches opposing coronavirus vaccination policies (Google Maps/JTA)
May 31, 2021, 4:10 am
Nashville hat shop sorry for selling ‘Not Vaccinated’ yellow Jewish stars
Store removes post advertising product and issues apology after iconic Stetson hats brand said it would no longer sell to the store
By Ron Kampeas
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