Kansas COVID Vaxx Mandate Holocaust Comparison Sparks Controversy

A losing argument serves to alienate far more people than it convinces.

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Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, called the comparison between the Holocaust and vaccine mandates "odious and historically ignorant and offensive.”

“It’s absurd to even say it,” he said. “Nobody’s going to be put into prison. Nobody’s going to be sent to concentration camps."

The Kansas City area's Jewish Community Relations Bureau put a statement on its Facebook page calling such comparisons “sickening displays of ignorance and antisemitism.”

"This is Holocaust distortion, and it has no place in the legislature," the statement said.

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