JTA – Le Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper, removed an op-ed that compared the lockdown caused by COVID-19 to the lockdown experienced by Anne Frank during the Holocaust.
The article was originally titled, “I Channel Anne Frank’s Mind During Lockdown” and was published on Wednesday by an author-contributor. The title was changed before the final deletion of the article.
The text acknowledged that Frank, who had been hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic for more than two years, had been locked up more than people currently experiencing lockdowns caused by COVID-19.
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Frank was 15 when she and her sister were killed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His posthumously published diary is one of the most widely read stories of the Holocaust.
and not a cab was stirring … #toronto #lockdown pic.twitter.com/Hi0y6TwQ6O
– jennifer evans (@nejsnave) February 26, 2021
“As the weariness of COVID-19 has taken on the best of me over the past few weeks, I’m starting to think to myself, ‘What would Anne do?’ or ‘What words would Anne use to describe this period?’ and ‘How would she adapt? », Said the article in Globe and Mail.
Following the outrage that has been expressed on social media, the Globe and Mail apologized, adding that the platform had been removed from its website.
“A column about Anne Frank and the lockdown was deleted because she did not meet our standards,” the newspaper wrote on Twitter. “We apologize for this error. ”
Throughout the pandemic, anti-Semitism watch groups have warned of parallels drawn between public health restrictions and the genocide of six million Jews.
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