https://www.timesofisrael.com/mk-likens-covid-rules-to-nazi-policies-all-thats-missing-is-concentration-camps/MK likens COVID rules to Nazi policies: ‘All that’s missing is concentration camps’
Likud’s Gadi Yevarkan booted from Knesset committee amid furor; health minister calls remarks ‘borderline Holocaust denial’ and ‘nauseating’
26DEC2021, 5:43 pm
Likud MK Gadi Yevarkan was kicked out of a Sunday Knesset committee hearing after making comments comparing COVID-19 measures to the Holocaust, including by falsely claiming that Austria sends unvaccinated individuals to concentration camps.
“The majority of Israelis don’t have a Green Pass,” Yevarkan lamented to Constitution, Law and Justice Committee members, over the widespread requirement of the document, which is available only to Israelis who have received a coronavirus vaccine booster dose or been vaccinated or recovered in the past six months.
“Millions of Israelis are without one; you’re leaving out millions of citizens,” he said, before being asked to be quiet by the committee chair since his time to speak was over.
But he refused. “Do like they’re doing in Austria, that’s what you want to do. All that’s missing is concentration camps,” Yevarkan shouted.
Yevarkan was ordered to leave the meeting by the committee chairman, Labor MK Gilad Kariv, and was then forcibly removed from the room by a Knesset security guard.