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Israel embassy in Singapore slams social media posts comparing Covid-19 policies to Holocaust

  • The response comes after opposition politician Brad Bowyer’s posts likened bifurcated distancing rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated residents to the Holocaust
  • Bowyer, who stirred a similar anti-Covid controversy last year, has resigned from the Progress Singapore Party

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Singapore this week began implementing bifurcated social gathering policies for vaccinated and unvaccinated residents. Photo: AFP
Bhavan Jaipragas
The embassy of Israel in Singapore on Thursday said it condemns social media posts comparing the city state’s Covid-19 vaccinations to the Nazi Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews, days after an opposition figure made such an analogy on Facebook and Instagram.

Progress Singapore Party (PSP) member Brad Bowyer’s post lambasting vaccinations mirrors similar sentiment being aired within the tiny but vocal anti-vaxxer movement in the island nation.

With 72 per cent of its 5.7 million people fully inoculated, Singapore this week began implementing bifurcated social gathering policies for vaccinated and unvaccinated residents.

Apart from Bowyer, Goh Meng Seng – a member of another fringe opposition party – has in recent days put up posts invoking the Nazi regime.

“The embassy of Israel in Singapore strongly condemns recent posts circulating on social media likening the vaccination campaign and other vaccine-related issues to the Holocaust,” the mission said in a statement on Facebook, without mentioning any names.

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