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The state Department of Health had launched the effort earlier this month after Israel's Ministry of Health confirmed that four children had tested positive for the poliovirus in the northern part of the country.
Jewish leaders are slamming the state Health Department for sending a truck through Long Island neighborhoods with the message, “Polio is Spreading in Israel. Get Immunized Now.”
Senior Jewish officials called Governor Hookall to withdraw from the campaign, saying it contains antisemitic aroma and depiction of Jews as disease spreaders noting the truck patrolled mostly Jewish neighborhoods
New York's Department of Health pulled polio vaccination slogan over allegations it echoes antisemitic tropes.