I've always loved how the argument against comparing the Gaza genocide to the Holocaust always comes down to "The Holocaust was WAY bigger!"
And in a way it's true. Israel's not rounding people up by the millions and shoving them into killing factories.
Israel's not disposing of the bodies at such a pace the smoke can be seen for miles.
But what does Israel do that makes them comparable to the Nazis? Let me count the ways.
Zionism is little more than Lebensraum with a Jewish coat of paint.
The notion of "Greater Israel" which is Israel's plans to annex and colonize the entire Middle East is nearly identical to Hitler's plans for a "Greater Germanic Reich." A large section of the land in the middle east dominated by an apartheid ethnostate where everyone else has to be "removed."
Einstein compared the deluded and deranged fantasizes of Zionist parties to the Nazis as early as the 40's.
Israel sees literally any threat, no matter how small, as an existential one. This is a core tenet of fascism that many holocaust survivors have commented on.
Just as Jewish people have their own term for the horrific and unforgivable genocide inflicted on them, so too do the Palestinians.
IDF Soldiers have straight up told people their job makes them feel like a Nazi.
Quote from Israeli general Yair Golan - "If there is one thing that is scary in remembering the Holocaust, it is noticing horrific processes which developed in Europe, particularly in Germany, 70, 80, and 90 years ago, and finding remnants of that here in Israel among us in the year 2016."
Quote from Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon - "The ideology of "Jewish supremacy", which has become dominant in the Israeli government, resembles Nazi racial theory."
Moshe Feiglin, a right wing Israeli politician, unironically quoted Hitler with regards to his opinions of the Palestinians - "As Hitler, may his name be erased, once said: 'I cannot live in this world if there is one Jew left in it,' we could not live in this land if even one such Islamo-Nazi remains in Gaza, and not before we return to Gaza and turn it into Hebrew Gaza." You literally can't make this shit up, they're out here quoting the bastard.
Tamir Pardo, former head of Mossad, compared the settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank to Nazi pogroms - "My mother was a Holocaust survivor, and what I saw reminded me of the events that happened against Jews in the last century.
And that's only a small list. The comparisons between Israel and the Nazis most frequently comes from Holocaust survivors, Jewish scholars, and Israel's own military commanders. The people committing this second Holocaust know this is exactly what they're doing.
Comparing Israel to the Nazis and the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians to the Holocaust is a neutral statement of fact.
They are Nazis. Any argument otherwise is little more than emotional blackmail.
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