Israel’s Starvation of Gaza is no different from the Nazi Starvation of Jews in the Polish Ghettos – Zionism has learnt the lessons of the Holocaust very well

 DESPITE Preventing Food and Aid Entering Gaza Since March 2, Starmer Has Said Nothing & Done Nothing

Gaza: Two months since Israel's full blockade, aid work is on the verge of collapse • FRANCE 24

In August 2024 Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister and the Gauleiter in the West Bank complained that

 “No one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages.”

Smotrich was wrong though his mistake was understandable. Despite Western leaders condemning his remarks at the time, when Israel began its starvation siege on March 2^nd, Western leaders fell silent. All their human rights talk proved hollow. Starmer, who is known as a human rights lawyer would be best called ‘an avoidance of human rights lawyer’.

At last a major newspaper spoke out about Israel's evil Nazi style starvation blockade - but it isn't the Guardian or Independent

Donald Trump threatened Gaza with ‘hell’ and death. But that pathetic humanoid Keir Starmer, who openly describes himself as a ‘Zionist (i.e. a racist] without qualification’ has said absolutely nothing.

Restricting food into Gaza has been an Israeli policy long before October 7. In 2006, after the elections which Hamas won, Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the then PM, Ehud Olmert, said that  'The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,'. Hunger pangs were supposed to encourage the Palestinians to force Hamas to change its attitude towards Israel or force them out of government.

The Zionist response to Louis Theroux's films on the settlers was to claim that only the worst Israelis were shown - but these are the people in power in Israel now

Conal Urquhart wrote in the Guardian in 2006 of

An empty watchtower overlooks a deserted road lined with rusting vehicle parts. The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart. This is Gaza's economic lifeline, the Karni crossing into Israel, which is supposed to handle 1,300 containers of merchandise and food per day in order to sustain 1.3 million people.

But nothing is entering or leaving Gaza, and now the funds to purchase what is available there are also drying up, bringing the dire situation of its people to a new and febrile crisis.

The article Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing by Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith and Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah is required reading.

"It was only to be expected: The discourse has taken on neo-Nazi attributes. Boundaries have fallen and bloodletting has been legitimized.
"Likud lawmaker Moshe Saada proclaimed on Channel 14 TV that he was "interested" in starving an entire nation. "Yes, I'll starve Gazans,… https://t.co/q7UyeIe5Yf

— Antony Loewenstein (@antloewenstein) April 28, 2025

Israel today is ruled by Jewish neo-Nazis. Indeed they are worse than neo-Nazis, they are Nazis. If you think this is an exaggeration take the statement of Likud MK Moshe Saada who proclaimed on Israel’s Channel 14 TV that starving Palestinians was "our obligation"  Singer, Kobi Peretz, said that we are "commanded" to annihilate [the Biblical arch-enemy] Amalek. "I don't pity any civilian in Gaza, young or old…I have not a shred of pity,"

Gideon Levy described the situation in Israel today:

The discourse has taken on neo-Nazi attributes. Boundaries have fallen and bloodletting has been legitimized....

The two of them, Saada and Peretz, are but minnows, but the pond is replete with such statements, with some people interested in highlighting them in order to pander to the opinion of the masses. A public figure in Europe, whether legislator or singer who uttered such statements would be labeled a neo-Nazi. His career would grind to a halt and from that day on he would be forever ostracized. In Israel, such statements sell newspapers.

One should call this phenomenon by name: This is incitement to genocide. To the credit of Saada and Peretz, one could say that they have taken off all masks and removed all filters. What used to be trash talk often found on social media has become standard media talk, raising questions such as who is for and who is still against genocide.

Yet in the West there is no acknowledgement that openly neo-Nazi politicians, Smotrich and Ben Gvir, have taken over the direction of Israel’s ‘war’ on Gaza. The pretence is still that Israel is some kind of democracy. Gvir is allowed to visit Trump in the United States as an honoured guest whilst international students opposed to genocide are kidnapped off the streets and deported. This is western democracy.

As part of their starvation strategy Israel declared UNWRA a ‘terrorist’ organisation’. This is the Zionists’ favourite trick. Whenever they don’t like an organisation they say it is ‘terrorist’. They never produce any evidence because there isn’t any but the United States rushes to cut off their funding.

Admiral Radikin is challenged over the RAF flights over Gaza. The Police do their best to shield him

Under the ‘change government’ 6 Palestinian charities such as ‘Defence of Children International – Palestine’ were banned because they were deemed ‘terrorist organisations’. What Israel resented was the searing criticism by DCI-Pal and other human rights organisations of Israel’s killing, abuse, torture and imprisonment of Palestinian children and others.

In January 2024 the Knesset approved an extension of emergency regulations that allowed the Israeli state to deny security prisoners, detained since October 7, the ability to meet with their lawyers. This allows the state to prevent prisoners meeting with lawyers for up to 180 days. This is a license to torture and a license to disappear i.e. murder people. These are not the laws of democratic states. Even the Red Cross is not allowed to enter Sdei Teiman torture centre where the most notorious rapes took place.

You get some idea of the nature of these fascist creatures from the statement of Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s Security Minister, who after his visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, called for the bombing of those few stores of food that remain in Gaza. He even claimed the support of Trump and senior Republicans for this reprehensible act. Although they denied it afterwards there is no doubt that the Republican scum approved of what Gvir proposed. and Senators like Tom Cotton have openly called for the extermination of the Palestinians.

Genocide is defined in the Genocide Convention as the intent to destroy a people, in whole or in part. Can anyone pretend that when 93% of housing, every university and nearly every hospital, school and UN facility has been destroyed, that Israel is guilty of genocide? Even the largest cemetery in Gaza, Al-Sharqiya, has been bulldozed and destroyed.

This is the legal and political context in which the starvation of 2 million people is being supported by the Western leaders. Those who still call Israel a democracy, like the Board of racist Deputies, are conniving in the same behaviour that was meted out to European Jews by the Nazis.

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Owen Jones failed to compare Israel’s actions with Nazi collective punishment. Perhaps that’s in deference to the false Zionist claim that comparisons between Zionism and the Nazis are anti-Semitic.

The Nazi atrocities of Oradour-sur-Glane where 643 civilians and Lidice where approximately 340 people were murdered are famous yet Israel has committed dozens of such massacres.

Jones should take heart from Ruth Vleeschhouwer Falak and Veronika Cohen, two Israeli holocaust survivors who were part of the protests. Veronika said:

“I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute... It occupies the same place in my heart.”

“People here see Palestinians as the other... They have managed not to feel their pain and I find that incomprehensible. To me, when I read the stories of their suffering in Gaza, it blends completely into how I feel about the Holocaust.”

Cohen’s eyes filled with tears as she recalled seeing a recent photo of a young Palestinian boy whose arms had been blown off by Israeli missile strikes in Gaza. “The news story said that when he woke up from his operation, the first thing he did was turn to his mother, and he said: ‘how will I hug you now?’ To me, that’s a Holocaust story. And that’s why we are here: to try to awaken people to their pain in any way we can.”

Ruth Vleeschhouwer Falak, 89, who survived the Nazi-occupation of the Netherlands as a child, said she was standing there because “in the 1930s, if Germans had stood up loudly against the Nazi party, maybe they wouldn’t have been able to do what they did to us. Speaking up is not a choice for me.”

“The saying is never again; that means never again for anybody. That’s really what we’re standing here for,” added Ilana Drukker Tokotin, 87, who spent her childhood in hiding from the Nazis.    

Starmer had no hesitation in describing the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebenica as a genocide yet when it comes to the deliberate murder of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians, over 20,000 of whom are children, this ‘human rights’ lawyer remains silent.

The use of starvation as a tactic of modern warfare didn’t begin with Israel. The prime exponent of starvation as a weapon of war was by the Nazis. Millions of Russians and other conquered peoples were literally starved to death. In the Warsaw Ghetto 83,000 people starved to death. In the Lodz Ghetto 45,000 starved to death. In Poland over 300,000 Jews starved to death. That is where Israel's starvation strategy derives from.

With Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Nazis were explicit about their intention to starve to death the population of the areas they conquered.

William Shirer recounts in The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich (p.768) that Goering told the Italian Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano in October 1941:

This year between twenty and thirty million persons will die of hunger in Russia. Perhaps it is well that it should be so, for certain nations must be decimated.

Hans Frank, the Governor of the General Government, the part of Poland that was not annexed to Germany, wrote about a Cabinet meeting in Cracow on 24 August 1942 where he remarked that ‘we sentence 1.2 million Jews to die of hunger should be noted only marginally." See Hitler’s Hunger Plan

Hans Frank was hanged at Nuremberg in October 1946 for war crimes and crimes against humanity

The deliberate starvation of a population is a war crime and evidence of an intention to commit genocide. It was explicitly banned in 1977 by Protocol I and Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions and criminalised by the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court. It is compounded by the fact that Israel’s presence in Gaza is illegal.

One wonders where the Zionist holocaust organisations stand since they are always telling us to ‘learn the lessons of the Holocaust’. The Holocaust Educational Trust and its Chief Executive Karen Pollock have not only refused to condemn Israel’s Nazi-style genocide but have actually justified it.

there has been a ‘drip feed of condemnatory comments from Pollock.... The gist of the criticism has been that the Holocaust in unique and comparing it with other genocides is highly disrespectful;  further that comparing it to the genocide of Palestinians in the current time is a form of antisemitism.  

The hypocritical cant that the IHRA advertises itself with - to this Zionist body a world without genocide means denying a genocide that is happening - they are Holocaust Deniers!

Karen Pollock is nothing more than a Zionist attack dog with fewer brains than the average pitbull. It is best to turn to the organ grinder rather than the Zionist monkey and so I wrote to the Secretariat of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. I offered to share any response they made with my readers, bearing in mind that previous emails from me to them about the creation of the IHRA have met with no response!

My Open Letter to the IHRA - I somehow doubt they will respond!

The institution which was set up in 1953 by Israel, Yad Vashem, has remained completely silent. That is because Yad Vashem is a state organisation whose sole reason to exist is to use the Holocaust for Zionist propaganda purposes. 

In the words of Daniel Blatman, an Israeli holocaust scholar, Yad Vashem is a 'diplomatic laundromat for every fascist and anti-Semite who darkens its doors.' There have been a lot of them – Trump,  Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Duterte and assorted neo-Nazis from Germany and Austria.

Israel Shahak, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen  wrote

Of the Yad Vashem… theatre, I do not wish to speak, at all. It, and its vile exploiting, such as honouring South Africa collaborators with the Nazis, are truly beneath contempt. 

As I wrote in a previous blog When 50 holocaust researchers asked Yad Vashem to condemn the genocidal statements made by Israeli politicians, military and other public figures, its Chair Dani Dayan refused.

Dayan denied that Israel’s army was conducting a genocide. It was acting ‘within the constraints Hamas imposes on us to comply with the proper moral standards and the laws of war.’

Dayan was Secretary-General of the fascist anti-Arab Tehiya party, and a candidate to the Knesset on its list in the Israeli legislative elections in 1988 and 1992. 

Dayan was also on the Executive of the settler Yesha Council, for West Bank settlers. In 2015 Brazil rejected him as Israel’s nomination as Ambassador because of his fascist credentials. Dani Dayan is an excellent choice to run Yad Vashem!

Support for the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals, universities and extermination of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are what passes for ‘proper moral standards’ at Yad Vashem.

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“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period… We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to… pic.twitter.com/2k6ISAmyfn

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) April 28, 2025

It is not only Yad Vashem or Starmer that have refused to say anything about Israel’s starvation of Gaza. The Biden Administration consistently supported the Genocide. Mondoweiss has just published an article about how the White House lied about its attempts to secure a ceasefire.

Falsifying reports to Congress

In February 2024, the White House issued a memo, NSM-20, which ordered the State and Defense Departments to report to Congress on any country engaged in conflict that was receiving military support from the US. The reports were to confirm that U.S. law was being upheld, and that American arms were not being used in violation of human rights or international law.

In May, the report, as it related to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was due. When the report was finally submitted, much to the shock of Stacy Gilbert, a twenty-year State Department lawyer, who resigned as a result of it.

The NSM-20 report stated not only that there was “insufficient evidence” linking U.S. arms to specific human rights violations but that the State Department did not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance (in Gaza)

This was a blatant lie. Gilbert told Hamakor that the report was “shocking in its mendacity,” adding: “Everyone knows that is not true.” When she resigned she said,

“There is consensus among the humanitarian community on [Israel obstructing aid into Gaza]. It is absolutely the opinion of the humanitarian subject matter experts in the State Department, and not just in my bureau – people who look at this from the intelligence community and from other bureaus. I would be very hard pressed to think of anyone who has said [Israeli obstruction] is not an issue. That’s why I object to that report saying that Israel is not blocking humanitarian assistance. That is patently false.”

It is difficult to envisage any human rights violations by Israel that would today meet with an embargo of arms by the U.S. and Britain such as occurred during the Lebanon war of 1982 by both the Thatcher and Reagan administrations.

We are led by war criminals. Starmer and Trump, like Biden and Scholtz before them, deserve to be arraigned at a Nuremberg war crimes style tribunal and to suffer the ultimate penalty that the Nazi war criminals suffered. Of course they won’t because war crimes have been the staple of British and American imperialism throughout the past century and more.

There are those, like David Miller, who attribute Britain’s Zionist policy to ‘infiltrators’ and ‘soldiers of Zion’ who have penetrated government institutions which would otherwise have adopted peace and love between nations as their policies.

However to those who are not living in a theoretical haze we have to acknowledge that in the history of imperialism there is nothing new in Gaza other than the fact that Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing is being carried out in full view of the world.

Irish KC Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh presenting South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice

Never has the hypocrisy of our war criminal leaders been so clearl and transparent. International law has been shown to be a paper tiger, the ICJ a toothless poodle. It found Israel had committed ‘plausible genocide’ 16 months ago and yet it has still not reached a verdict. Recently it gave Israel a 6 months extension to respond to South Africa’s case despite having ignored their injunction not to enter Rafah.

I suspect that if Israel were to use gas chambers in Gaza Starmer and Trump would deny that was genocidal as they have to Israel’s exterminationism to date.  Within the Israeli state the vast majority of Jewish citizens support Israel’s genocidal war and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Tony Greenstein