Anti-Semitic stickers were discovered in a Hamburg subway car this week, comparing state measures against people diagnosed with the coronavirus with the Nazi extermination policy.
The stickers, found in a subway car between Barmbek and St. Pauli, were attached to the windows. One of the two stickers consisted of a yellow heart with the text "I ☣ CORONA". The second, in the shape of a yellow Star of David, read "Coronavirus!!" with the ☣ symbol for biohazard in its middle.
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The shape and color of the latter openly played on the symbol Jews had to wear in Nazi Germany, indicating that the perpetrators see themselves as victims of a mass crime.
Similar symbolism is currently used by Facebook groups peddling conspiracy theories accusing the Jews of devising the global coronavirus pandemic, among a host of other things.
Vice Chairman of the World Zionist Organization Yaakov Hagoel responded to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories regarding the COVID-19 pandemic stating, "The coronavirus does not differentiate between race, gender or religion but it is fertile ground for anti-Semitic conspiracies.
"This phenomenon of accusing the Jews of creating epidemics and diseases is not new. We have already seen it in the Middle Ages during the Black Plague. Back then, anti-Semites incited against the Jews and accused them of somehow being behind the plague. The big difference between then and now is that today we have the State of Israel. We are strong and proud and we will continue to fight anti-Semitism and we will prevail with our heads held high," he said.
