I have been criticised on this forum for my post “The Purge” as antisemitic. I don’t take that lightly as it is a baseless lie. I express my opinions freely and they are fervently anti-Israeli. We should all seek to right the wrongs of this world no matter who is making them. We as humans have a right to speak out again injustice, and worse. Injustice is not religion. Comparing Netanyahu to the leader of the Nazi regime is accurate. Netanyahu should be ashamed to call himself a Jew. Comparing Israel’s actions, and its tolerance for the atrocities of its soldiers and police do make it comparable to Nazi Germany. The difference is only one of scale. These ordinary folks agree with me. Note how many are Jewish and/or Israeli. In 1948, Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt signed an open letter comparing Menachem Begin's Tnuat Haherut party to Nazism. Some Holocaust survivors, such as Dr. Hajo Meyer and Dr. Gabor Maté, have compared Israeli policies to Nazi actions. The anti-Zionist Orthodox group Neturei Karta frequently makes this comparison. Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif has also made such comparisons. Yeshayahu Leibowitz (Philosopher): Coined the term "Judeo-Nazis" in the 1980s regarding the occupation. Yair Golan (IDF General): Discussed troubling parallels with 1930s Europe, later comparing right-wingers to Nazis. Amiram Levin (Former IDF General): Compared West Bank control to Nazi policies. Moshe Ya'alon (Former Defense Minister): Labeled Israeli government ideology as resembling Nazi racial theory. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Colombian president Gustavo Petro] In 1945, British Army officer and politician Edward Spears German-Jewish linguist and anti-fascist Victor Klemperer, who survived the Holocaust and chose not to move to Israel but to stay in Germany after 1945, wrote in his LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii (The Language of the Third Reich) that both Zionism and Nazism are essentially neo-Romantic nationalist ideologies. After the assassination of Lord Moyne by the Zionist militant group Lehi, Winston Churchill Following the Sergeants affair, the American consul in Jerusalem. English historian Arnold J. Toynbee. In 2018, Noam Chomsky. In 1983, anti-Zionist scholar Boaz Evron. University of Bridgeport international law professor Richard Arens, the brother of Israeli Minister of Defence Moshe Arens, In 1983, the American freelance journalist Lenni Brenner Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov. In 1988, Holocaust survivor Yehuda Elkana. Holocaust historian John K. Roth . In a 2024 article for Ha'aretz, Israeli academics (and former IDF soldiers) Nuphar Ishay-Krien and Yoel Elizur quoted an anonymous soldier who served during the First Intifada as saying, "I felt like, like, like a Nazi ... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews. In November 2020, the prime minister's son, Yair Netanyahu. In December 2023, the mayor of Metula David Azoulai. the mayor of Metula, David Azoulai. August 2022, the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas Sociologist Martin Shaw In April 2025, Argentinian lawmaker Vanina Biasi. In April 2016, Turkish-born Swedish politician Mehmet Kaplan, Former UK Member of Parliament David Ward Rebecca Ruth Gould, Distguished Professor, SOAS Former Likud Knesset member, Moshe Zalman Feiglin Roger Waters of Pink Floyd British-Australian Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes. Jewish actor Wallace Shawn. Jake Romm, in an article for Parapraxis. Historian Bernard Lewis. British scholar David Feldman. University of Pennsylvania professor, Ian Lustick, political scientist. olocaust and genocide scholar Omer Bartov warns that Israel's repeated invocation of the Holocaust to justify its military actions against Palestinians represents a profound moral and historical distortion.
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