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Dutch right-wing leader Thierry Baudet speaks to reporters at the Dutch Senate in the Hague on Feb. 5, 2020. (Sem Van Der Wal\/ANP\/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Cnaan Liphshiz<\/p>\n

Following a court order, a Dutch lawmaker removed social media messages in which he drew parallels between COVID-19 measures and the treatment of Jews by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Thierry Baudet, the 38-year-old leader of the Netherlands\u2019 right-wing Forum for Democracy party and a member of the country\u2019s House of Representatives, deleted the four messages from Twitter and Instagram on Thursday.<\/a>\u00a0The previous day, a judge in Amsterdam issued an injunction ordering the deletion of the content, prescribing a fine of 25,000 euros \u2013 or $28,000 \u2013 for each day that the content is still online.<\/p>\n

The judge said that Baudet\u2019s tweets \u201ccontribute to a climate in which antisemitism is encouraged.\u201d Many critics of the comparison argue that it downplays the Holocaust. Baudet has denied such allegations and said he will appeal the ruling. Speech that equates to Holocaust denial is illegal in many European countries, though not in the Netherlands, where some forms of denial are prosecuted under laws against hate speech.<\/p>\n

In one of the deleted tweets, from Nov. 14, Baudet called the unvaccinated \u201cthe new Jews,\u201d adding that those who \u201cexclude and look the other way are the new Nazis and NSB,\u201d the acronym of a pro-Nazi political party during the 1930s and 1940s.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Baudet posted a picture of a child unable to attend a seasonal holiday procession juxtaposed with a picture of a child wearing a yellow star during the Holocaust in Poland. Later last month he posted a sign requiring vaccination certificates at the entrance to the museum on the grounds of the Buchenwald former concentration camp. He added this was \u201cthe pinnacle of irony.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am extremely sad that I am not allowed to express what I believe in, and I will not accept it.\u00a0We will definitely be appealing,\u201d Baudet wrote Thursday on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n

The ruling, issued on a lawsuit filed against Baudet by several Jewish community organizations and a Holocaust survivor, is one of the first legal actions in the world taken against comparisons between COVID-19 measures and the Holocaust. Such comparisons\u00a0have proliferated worldwide amid growing resistance to government-introduced restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the pandemic.<\/a><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Europe, similar equivalencies abound. In Poland, at a Tuesday protest in Warsaw against COVID-19 measures, the country\u2019s ultranationalist Confederation party unveiled a sign reading \u201cvaccination makes you free.\u201d Written on an arch-shaped placard, it was a reference to the infamous metal sign reading \u201cwork makes you free\u201d outside the Auschwitz concentration camp that the Nazis built in occupied Poland.<\/p>\n

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a Facebook post that the banner painted\u00a0\u201ca dramatic and dark picture of how low some politicians and protesters can fall in mindless, anti-vaccine rhetoric,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ronny Naftaniel, the chairman of the Central Jewish Organization of Dutch Jews, or CJO, wrote on Facebook that the ruling against Baudet does not prevent him from criticizing the government\u2019s COVID-19 measures, only his use of the Holocaust to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso without the inaccurate and nasty comparisons with the Holocaust, Baudet can continue to practice his democratic right to criticize the COVID-19 policy\u201d of the government, Naftaniel wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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