The Estonian Jewish community has condemned the KOOS party and its leader Aivo Peterson for misappropriating the Holocaust for electioneering.
The statement noted that a party activist compared the government revoking voting rights for stateless citizens – also known as grey passport holders – in Estonia to the genocidal acts of the nazi regime in an online post on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 18.
Three days later, KOOS leader Aivo Peterson appeared at a court hearing wearing a yellow Star of David, a badge that the nazis forced Jews and those they judged to be Jews to wear.
The Estonian Jewish Community stressed that trivialising Holocaust symbols is unacceptable. Drawing historical parallels that insult the memory of all Jews and present-day Estonia is intolerable.
Peterson is in custody in Estonia after being charged with treason last year.
