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4 April 2026

Israel is to the 21st Century what Nazi Germany was to the 20th Century – The Death Penalty Law for Palestinians is Just One More Sign of Zionism’s Sickness

From Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide, Apartheid to Extermination, Child Killing to Starvation, Torture & Rape, There is No War Crime Israel Doesn’t Excel In 



The Horrifying Torture of a One Year Old Baby by the 'most moral army in the world - Sky TV

Though one should note that the only complaint of Adam Langleben of the Jewish Labour Movement is the offence given to the Jewish religion. He has nothing to say about the Death Penalty for Palestinians legislation itself.

Even hardened Zionists and Genocide supporters have become uncomfortable at the pictures of Itamar Ben-Gvir and fellow Judeo-Nazis celebrating the passage of a law that reserves the death penalty for Palestinians whilst Jewish murderers are immune from even the mildest reprimand.


Under Labour Zionist governments only one law explicitly discriminated again Israel’s Palestinians – the Law of Return. All subsequent discrimination built upon that one law. Discrimination was indirect. Today the far-right is more explicit and also more honest.

Israel liar liar pants on fire


So we should thank Israel’s Judeo-Nazi Police Minister for making explicit that which was implicit. As the Times of Israel said

The law effectively enshrines capital punishment for Palestinians alone, as it explicitly excludes Israeli citizens or residents, and only Palestinians are tried in military courts. Israelis are tried in civilian courts.


Knesset Members voted 62-47 to mandate death by hanging as the punishment for Palestinians convicted of ‘terrorist’ acts by military courts. Judges can opt for life imprisonment under “special circumstances” which are undefined but otherwise the death penalty is mandatory and will be carried out within 90 days of sentencing without appeal.

Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beteinu, a secular far-right party that is not part of the government, voted in favour of the bill. The Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism, which is part of the government was split. Its Degel HaTorah (Lithuanian non-Hasidic) faction voted in favour wheres its Agudat Yisrael (Hasidic) faction voted against.

Settler Attacks on Palestinian Homes – BBC

Unlike Israeli settlers who are tried in civilian courts Palestinians are tried in military courts where there is a 99.74% rate of conviction. Confessions under torture are admissible. Even the Nazi Peoples’ Courts had a higher rate of acquittal. In 1940 it was 7.3%, falling to around 5% until 1944, when it rose to almost 12% They were set up by Hitler to bypass the ordinary court system to try political offences.

'I want to kill more, more, more' - Israeli female soldier boasts of having killed 2 Palestinians


So we have a situation whereby even the Nazis treated its accused more fairly than Israel’s rubber stamp military courts.

West European countries issued a pro forma statement condemning the passage of the law, whilst doing nothing to countermand it such as sanctions. The Trump Administration didn’t even do that. Instead the State Department issued a statement saying that:


The United States respects Israel’s sovereign right to determine its own laws and penalties for individuals convicted of terrorism.” 

The Death Penalty Law for Palestinians reflects the fact that Jewish terrorism is not a crime in the eyes of the Israeli police and army which are often complicit in the attacks.

Burnt out Palestinian home after a settler attack

Mua’yyad Sha’ban of the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) stated that settlers had carried out 192 attacks in the first two weeks of March, resulting in the murder of 6 Palestinians. This is in addition to the murder of Palestinians by the military. However no settler or soldier has been punished for killing a Palestinian since 2020.

Israeli soldier throws bike into trash bin

In other words settlers have a license to kill Palestinians but if Palestinians strike back then they will be hanged as ‘terrorists’ and the US administration will support it.

This is not so different from Nazi Germany and before that Czarist Russia where authorities only intervened if Jews defended themselves. What happened to the Jews in Europe is now taking place in Greater Israel to the Palestinians. As Primo Levy was reputed to have remarked, the Palestinians are the Jews of Israel.

Settler attack in Tayasir 30 3 26

Israel has had a policy of extra judicial executions for the years. The law that has just been enacted will simply put what Israel has already been doing on a ‘legal’ footing. As the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights observed:

Extra-judicial execution is a policy which is not new or exclusively used since 2000. It is an old, bloody policy that had been implemented by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians for decades.

Israeli Police Violently Break Up Anti Genocide protests in Arab TOWN

Adalah, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, wrote that:

Politicians and senior police officers have also openly called for the extra-judicial killing of suspects, and have urged civilians to carry guns in statements that effectively endorse the extra-judicial execution of Palestinians. 

It quoted Jerusalem District Police Commander Moshe Edri as saying:

Anyone who stabs Jews or hurts innocent people is due to be killed.

Note that the Police Commander was not concerned about anyone stabbing non-Jews.

Try as they might to deny it, the Zionists were the favourite Jews of the Nazis - as even Zionist historian Lucy Dawidowicz proves

There are those who decry the comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany yet the similarities are striking. The level of racism against Palestinians in Israel is far higher than the level of anti-Semitism in Germany which was largely confined to the Nazi party. See for example Ian Kershaw’s "Popular Opinion and Political Dissent": whose central thesis was that the German public's reaction to the persecution of Jews was characterized by "indifference" rather than fanatical hatred.

Although it is played down today, Hitler came to power despite, not because of his anti-Semitism and unlike the far-right in Israel, which command a clear majority in the Knesset of about 80 seats, the Nazi party never gained more than 37% of the German electorate in a free election (July 1932).

David Bankier concluded that most of the German public:

“did not attribute to antisemitism the importance that it had in the eyes of the National Socialist Party, and placed it in a secondary place in its order of priorities....

The decreased hopes of victory and the fear of the retaliation of the Jews or the Allies led many ordinary Germans to distance themselves from the propaganda, and particularly from the subject of the Jews. The attempts of the Nazis to incite antisemitic feelings did not only fail to calm the fears of the public but actually increased them, and thus the more the information about the mass extermination filtered through the more the public wished to be less involved in the Final Solution.

The level of racism in Israel against Arabs is staggeringly high. According to Dahlia Schendlin, a survey conducted by Professor Tamir Sorek of Pennsylvania State University examined "eliminatory" attitudes among Jewish Israelis and their theological roots.

It found that 82% of Israeli Jews supported the transfer of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip to other countries. 56% supported the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. When asked whether they agreed with the idea that the IDF,

when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, namely, to kill all its inhabitants? 

nearly half, 47 percent, agreed. Polls such as these have been remarkably consistent over the years.

An opinion poll (27.3.07) found that over half the Jewish population believed that marriage to an Arab was ‘national treason’. Note that they didn’t oppose inter-marriage on religious but racial and national grounds. Many religions historically, whether Jewish or Catholic, have frowned upon inter-marriage. This is religious chauvinism not racism but when that becomes the policy of a state then that is racism. It becomes a quest for racial purity.

Over 75% of participants did not approve of apartment buildings being shared between Arabs and Jews. 60% said they would not allow an Arab to visit their home. About 40% agreed that “Arabs should have their right to vote for Knesset revoked”. Over half agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate from the country and a similar percentage said they would not want to work under the direct management of an Arab. 55% said “Arabs and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”. 31% said they felt hatred, while 50% said they felt fear in the company of an Arab.

The Nazi concept of Lebensraum 'Living Space' is Alive & Well in Israel

Over 56% of participants said they believed that Israel’s Arab citizens posed both a security and a demographic threat to the country, in other words that the Arab presence in a Jewish state caused them to fear that one day there might be more Arabs than Jews. When asked what they thought of Arab culture, over 37%replied, “The Arab culture is inferior.”

YNet described how the annual 2006 Democracy Index found that 62% of Israelis wanted the government to encourage Arabs to leave the country.

Only 14% of respondents said ties between Arabs and Jews are good, while 29% said a Jewish majority is required for decisions of crucial national significance.

This was 20 years ago. Today the situation is that much worse. Zionism has embarked on a one-way journey which, left to its own devices, will end up in further genocide and further ethnic cleansing. The role of liberal Zionists is to prettify and justify what is happening in the name of ‘the only Jewish state in the world’, the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ and other self-serving, meaningless tropes.

Why has Zionism and Israel morphed into a 21st century version of Nazi Germany? It is because a ‘Jewish’ ethno-nationalist state was based on race, not religion. It was not intended to be a theocracy but an ethnocracy, although it may also end up as a theocracy. The one thing that Israel won’t become is a democratic state of its citizens. Being a Jewish state precludes that.

This is why, from the very start of the Israeli state, the Zionist militias ‘cleansed most of the areas they controlled of its Palestinians. Without that there could not have been a Jewish majority state. The Nakba was a precondition for the formation of their ‘Jewish’ state and everything since has flowed from that.

The Useless words of British Diplomacy - Since Israel's Government is Sponsoring the Settler Terror What is Needed is Sanctions & No More Arms Shipments

Today the Palestinians are not willing to vacate Palestine which is why Zionism has turned to terror, pogroms, violence and genocide. The same was true of Nazi Germany. From 1933 to 1939 the policy of the German state was one of ethnic cleansing. It was only when this became impossible that the Nazis turned to genocide.

Israel and anti Arab incitement –Mosques

What we are seeing in the West Bank, with the settler pogroms, is another stage in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. I have little doubt that if these pogroms are unsuccessful in stimulating an exodus of the Palestinians then the Zionists will increasingly turn to genocide there too.

Israel has derived enormous political advantages from the Nazi holocaust which at the time they consciously played down. The Zionist leaders used the Nazi holocaust to maximum advantage in order to demonise the Arabs as anti-Semites. This ruse has been increasingly hard to maintain as the spotlight has turned on their actions.

Elli Valley Captures the Victim-Perpetrator Syndrome of Israeli society

As Idith Zertal, an Israeli New Historian wrote in her book The Politics of Nationhood

‘The transference of the holocaust situation on to the Middle East reality… not only created a false sense of the imminent danger of mass destruction. It also immensely distorted the image of the holocaust, dwarfing the magnitude of the atrocities committed by the Nazis, trivializing the unique agony of the victims and the survivors, and utterly demonizing the Arabs and their leaders.

Meir Kahane (Centre) voting in the Knesset

Ben Gvir comes from the tradition of Meir Kahane, the rabbi who was the leader of Kach. In 1984 he was elected to the Knesset. The other Zionist parties immediately boycotted him and walked out of the Knesset whenever he spoke.

Kahane was elected on a programme calling for the expulsion of Israeli Arabs and the deportation of the Palestinians in the West Bank. He called for five year prison sentences for Arab men who had sexual relations with women, which was straight out of the Nuremberg Laws.

However Kahane, who was an embarrassment to the Zionists then, has been proved right in terms of Zionism. Kahane had no time for those who spoke of Israel as a Jewish-Democratic state. He said, quite correctly, that Israel could be a Jewish State or a Democratic State but it could not be both. It was the hypocritical ‘left’ Zionists who maintained that Israel could be both Jewish and democratic when the essence of a Jewish state was that Jews not Palestinians had the power.

Today virtually the whole political scene in Israel has been Kahanised and Kahane lives on in Itamar Ben Gvir, the Police Minister who had on his wall until recently a picture of the mass murderer Baruch Goldstein, who opened up with an automatic weapon killing 29 worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

It should therefore be no surprise that Ben Gvir’s proposal for a racially selective death penalty commanded a majority in the Knesset.

The Dehumanisation of the Palestinians and the murder of their children

All forms of racism dehumanise their victims. But some societies dehumanise them so completely that ethnic cleansing and genocide is the logical outcome.

This is as true of Israel as it was of Nazi Germany. There have been many examples of this in the Gaza genocide but one particular characteristic of it is the dehumanisation of Palestinian children.

Zionist rabbis in Israel have emphasised that the extermination of the Palestinians will only be complete if their children are also killed.

In 2009 a book Torat Hamelech was published by two Chabad Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur with an introduction by Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh. It was a guide to how to legally kill non-Jews according to Jewish religious law, Halachah.

It also justified the killing Palestinian children. Torat Hamelech argued that:

1.          children may be killed if it is believed they will "grow up to harm us".

2.          Harming the children of a "wicked leader" is permissible if it exerts enough pressure on that leader to stop fighting.

3.          Harming innocents, including infants, is allowed if their "presence and their killing is actually beneficial and helpful" to the war effort.

4.        ‘Ruthless acts’ of revenge to create a "correct element of fear" among enemies.

The book said that “The prohibition ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder” applies only “to a Jew who kills a Jew”. This is because non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature” and attacks on them “curb their evil inclination,” while babies and children of Israel’s enemies may be killed since “it is clear that they will grow to harm us.”

Israel's Judeo-Nazi Rabbi Dov Lior

The book was endorsed by dozens of Israeli rabbis including Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his son Ya’akov Yosef, who were both influential in Shas, a Sephardic party in Netanyahu’s coalition as well as the most influential rabbi of all, Dov Lior.

Dov Lior is famous for having said that

“There is no such thing as enemy civilians in war time. The law of our Torah is to have mercy on our soldiers and to save them … A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail.”

Dov Lior is the spiritual mentor of Itamar Ben Gvir. This is an example of how Israeli rabbis act as the ideological and religious enablers of Israel’s neo-Nazi politicians. Today in Israel, and to a large extent outside Israel, the Jewish religion has become a religion of genocide.

If an Arab cleric were to publish such a book he would suffer the same fate as Raed Salah, who was demonised by Zionist groups in this country. Salah denied that his comments at a demonstration even applied to Jews but was gaoled for ‘incitement to racial hatred’. But when it came to the rabis who wrote Torat HaMelech, the Attorney General refused to prosecute and Israel’s High Court said ‘there was no basis’ for such a prosecution.

Limor son Hamelech - who dressed up as an Executioner for Purim (right) with settler leader Daniella Weiss

In Israel the laws against racial incitement are only applied to non-Jews. Jews can say whatever they wish.

In the current genocide in Gaza Orthodox Rabbis have played a key role in legitimising the murder of Palestinian civilians including children.

Prime amongst them was Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva in Jaffa, who called during a conference on 8 March for the Israeli army to kill ‘all residents of Gaza’. When asked whether this included babies he said:

“Those who create the terrorists” should also be killed, in reference to Palestinian women. Despite these genocidal remarks Israel’s police recommended dropping the case. Elderly people were also legitimate targets, according to Mali.

"There is no such thing called innocent creature. By the way, the elderly man is capable of carrying a rifle and shooting. Therefore, the Torah is very clear in the ruling."

And who was it who placed Israel’s racist rabbis in a position of power in Israel if not David Ben-Gurion, its Labour Zionist Prime Minister. As Adam Shatz wrote in his review of Tom Segev’s biography, Ben-Gurion

gave the Orthodox rabbinate considerable authority over religious affairs.... the rabbis were given the power to define who was and wasn’t a Jew, and which marriages would be recognised. (His own feeling was that Jewish women shouldn’t be allowed to marry Arab men ‘because as I see it an Arab is still not on the human level that I would want for a man who marries a Jewish woman.’)


We see the Nazi behaviour of the Israeli military in Lebanon today. The IDF has decreed that Shi’ite Muslims cannot live in the south of Lebanon.

Some have taken shelter with Christians in neighbouring villages. This has resulted in the Israeli military going into Christian villages, searching for them and warning Christians of dire consequences if they harbour Muslims.

Lying Ruth Justifies Murder of Journalists

Such behaviour was reminiscent of the Gestapo who warned non-Jews of the consequences of sheltering Jews.

The law reserving the death penalty for Palestinians has its roots in the ‘socialist’ Zionism that European social democrats embraced. Ben Gvir and Netanyahu did not come out of nowhere. Labour Zionism gave birth to the monstrosity that is the Israeli state today.

Tony Greenstein

See

‘War crime’: Global condemnation as Israeli ministers celebrate death penalty law targeting Palestinian prisoners

Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians

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28 October 2018

Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany are NOT anti-Semitic – Israelis do it all the time!

What is the difference between Israelis who chant ‘Death to the Arabs’ and Nazis who shouted ‘Death to the Jews?’



The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism states that ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis’ could be anti-Semitic. But the strange thing is that anti-racist Israelis are the first to draw such comparisons. Are they also anti-Semitic under this dumb definition of anti-Semitism?
Perhaps Professor Zeev Sternhell who is emeritus head of the department of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one of the world’s leading experts on fascism is also anti-Semitic? Perhaps Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion or Daniel Yates, New Labour Head of Brighton and Hove Council, both of whom support the IHRA, can tell us?
But before they do I should tell them that Zeev Sternhell is a child survivor of the Holocaust. At the age of 7 he was smuggled out of the Przemyśl ghetto in Poland into Lwow. He was cared for by a Polish Catholic family and baptised.  He is one of the few Zionists who isn’t a racist which is perhaps why in September 2008 he was the victim of a pipe bomb attack by Zionist terrorists.
Sternhell poses a rhetorical question. How will future historians judge when it was that the Israeli state had devolved into a ‘true monstrosity for its non-Jewish inhabitants’. Sternhell is, as I said a Zionist who has illusions in a period when Israel was not a racist entity. Nonetheless it is to his credit that he now accepts that racism in Israel today is akin to that in pre-Holocaust Germany. I would go further.  All the evidence is that racism in Israel today is far higher than ever anti-Semitism was in Nazi Germany.
Ian Kershaw described how in Bavaria, the state-sponsored Kristallnacht pogrom on November 2nd 1938 not only met with little sympathy but that it was ‘condemned deep into the ranks of the Party.’ Just 5% of the population approved as opposed to 63% who displayed disgust and anger.  It was in rural Catholic Bavaria that the most vociferous condemnation of the pogrom was heard.  Kershaw notes,
another, more appealing, side of the popular reaction to the pogrom was its rejection on grounds of Christian compassion and common humanity.  Jewish eye-witness accounts abound with references to the kindness of ‘Aryan’ and ‘Christian’ neighbours who are anxious to point out the overwhelming rejection of the pogrom by the vast majority of the population. 
Jews in Munich ‘were lavish in their praise of the sympathetic response they encountered among non-Jewish people.’[Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, pp.257-277].   This despite living in a police state unprecedented in its viciousness. 
Isaac Herzog, Israeli Labour leader explains why he doesn't want a Palestinian Prime Minister of Israel
Compare this with the Israelis who set up armchairs and coffee machines on a hilltop in order that they could get a better view and cheer on the ongoing destruction taking place in Gaza. [‘Israelis gather on hillsides to watch and cheer as military drops bombs on Gaza, People drink, snack and pose for selfies against a background of explosions as Palestinian death toll mounts in ongoing offensive.’ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing Harriet Sharwood, The Guardian, 20.7.14].  
 The only effect of the holocaust has been to reinforce the self-righteousness and moral turpitude of Israel’s Jews and to enable them to justify their own vicious racism.
The Nazis had to try very hard to instil anti-Semitism in the German population. The Nazis came to power not because of but despite their anti-Semitism.
Sternhell speaks of ‘the toxic ultra-nationalism that has evolved here, the kind whose European strain almost wiped out a majority of the Jewish people.’ Anyone familiar with Israeli society will know that the levels of racism in it are far higher than any equivalent Western society.
When we have, in the Labour Party, group like the Jewish Labour Movement going on about anti-Semitism whilst saying nothing about the horrific levels of racism in Israeli society, then we can accuse them of complicity. The JLM describe themselves as the ‘sister’ party of the Israeli Labour Party yet not once have they called out the visceral racism of the ILP. Israel claims to be the nation state of Jews, all Jews, yet the JLM and  their supporters keep silent, apart from smearing their Jewish opponents.
As Sternhell quite correctly says, the Jewish Nation State Law which explicitly denies Israeli Palestinians any right to be considered part of the same nation as Israeli Jews, because there is no Israeli nationality, is no different in principle from the Nuremburg Laws which changed the status of German Jews from citizens and nationals into subjects.
Daniel Blatman whose book The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research in 2011is a Holocaust researcher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Blatman wrote an article earlier this year International Holocaust Remembrance Day: An Israeli Hypocrisy. Moshe Machover in Why Israel is a Racist State quotes Blatman as saying that “Deputy Speaker Bezalel Smotrich’s admiration for the biblical genocidaire Joshua bin Nun leads him to adopt values that resemble those of the German SS.”
According to Blatman, the blueprint of the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Bezalel Smotrich and Miki Zohar, a Likud MK, for the Palestinians, both inside and outside Israel, would be akin to Jews under the Nuremburg Laws.
As Sternhell observes, Smotrich and Zohar don’t wish to harm Palestinians, as long as they do what they are told of course, merely to ‘deprive them of their basic human rights, such as self-rule in their own state and freedom from oppression’.
The late Professor Amos Funkenstein, Head of the Faculty of History at Tel Aviv University when referring to the controversy over the refusal of soldiers to serve in the Occupied Territories, compared them to soldiers in the German army who refused to serve in concentration or extermination camps. [HOLOCAUST ANALOGIES - Repaying the Mortgage Return 2 March 1990] To those who asked how it was possible to compare the actions of Nazi soldiers with Israelis, Funkenstein replied,
“As a historian I know that every comparison is limited. On the other hand, without comparisons, no historiography is possible. Understanding a historical event is a kind of translation into the language of our time. If we would leave every phenomenon in its peculiarity, we could not make this translation. Every translation is an interpretation and every interpretation is also a comparison.”
It is not only anti-Zionists and anti-racists who make the comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany.  The racists also make the comparison.
The liberal left are often reticent about comparing Zionism to Nazism. Gilbert Achcar for example found it a ‘terrible comparison’ [Arabs and the Holocaust, pp.228. 234] and Shami Chakrabarti, in her report on racism in the Labour Party, argued that ‘it is always incendiary to compare the actions of Jewish people or institutions anywhere in the world to those of Hitler or the Nazis or to the perpetration of the Holocaust.’[The Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry, http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/party-documents/ChakrabartiInquiry.pdf ]  By this logic one should not compare the settlers of Hebron, who daub the walls of Palestinians with the slogan ‘Arabs to the gas chambers’ with the Nazis. [See for example Donald Macintyre, Breaking silence over the horrors of Hebron, 22.6.04. The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/breaking-silence-over-the-horrors-of-hebron-5355569.html]  Only Zionists should be allowed to make such comparisons.
If the Holocaust is to serve any purpose it is as a warning against the repetition of such horrors. Even Israel’s Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan recognised this when he said, at the 2016 Holocaust Remembrance Day, that
"If there's something that frightens me about Holocaust remembrance it's the recognition of the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, back then – 70, 80 and 90 years ago – and finding signs of them here among us today in 2016."
When Israeli rabbis talk about the justified murder of children and infants in war time, as Rabbis Yitzhak Shapiro and Josef Elitzur did in Torat HaMelech, a 2011 book which was a guide to how Jews could legally kill non Jews, they are laying the basis for a future genocide.  As American journalist Max Blumenthall observed, Torat HaMelech is:
a virtual manual for Jewish extremist terror designed to justify the mass slaughter of civilians. And in that respect, it is not entirely different from the Israeli military’s Dahiya Doctrine, or Asa Kasher and Amos Yadlin’s concept of “asymmetrical warfare.” The key difference seems to be the crude, almost childlike logic the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, marshals to justify the killing of non-Jewish civilians.
Nazism didn’t come from nowhere.  In Mein Kampf Hitler cites, with approval, the American practice of eugenics. Nazism wasn’t an aberration. It was supported by many of the West’s leaders, Churchill included, when it first took power. The destruction of the German Labour Movement met with approval by these people. It was only when Nazi Germany turned against British interests that the British ruling class opposed Hitler.
However the racism of the British Empire was not altogether different from the racism of the Nazis which is why the Colonial Office vetoed propaganda aimed at Africans which condemned the racism of the Nazis. [see Smyth, Rosaleen; Britain's African Colonies and British Propaganda during the Second World War, Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History 14,1 October 1985]
Isaac Herzog, Israeli Labour Party leader denies the party is 'Arab loving'
There can be little doubt that the edict of the Chief Rabbi of Safed, Shmuel Eliyahu, endorsed by dozens of other rabbis, to ban the renting of rooms or apartments by Jews to Arabs, bore a distinct resemblance to similar measures in pre-Holocaust Germany.  Safed Rabbi Boasts That anti-Arab Edict Worked
Or the mobs who in ‘liberal’ Tel Aviv chanted, during the attack on Gaza in 2014 that ‘‘There is no school tomorrow; there are no children left in Gaza’ resembled similar mobs in Berlin.
Those who seek to deflect from these comparisons by raising the bogey of ‘anti-Semitism’ are actively colluding in Israel’s Nazi like racism. We only have to look at the Pew Research Centre’s Survey Israel’s Religiously Divided Society which found that a plurality of Israeli Jews want to physically deport Israel’s Palestinian citizens.
Nazi like? Well expulsion of the Jews was the programme of the Nazis until 1941.
Tony Greenstein
See also

Are there any limits to Corbyn’s ritual self-humiliation? Being a Leader means standing up to your opponents not appeasing them

Nazi Zionist Comparisons – Israel’s metaphor for a disturbed conscience

Professors Ofer Cassif & Daniel Blatman of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem Compare Israel to Nazi Germany

Israel’s Occupation Forces Have Learnt Well from the Nazis

In Israel, Growing Fascism and a Racism Akin to Early Nazism
Zeev Sternhell
19.01.2018 02:00
They don’t wish to physically harm Palestinians. They only wish to deprive them of their basic human rights, such as self-rule in their own state and freedom from oppression
Israeli border police arrest a Palestinian in the West Bank, December 22, 2017Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP
I frequently ask myself how a historian in 50 or 100 years will interpret our period. When, he will ask, did people in Israel start to realize that the state that was established in the War of Independence, on the ruins of European Jewry and at the cost of the blood of combatants some of whom were Holocaust survivors, had devolved into a true monstrosity for its non-Jewish inhabitants. When did some Israelis understand that their cruelty and ability to bully others, Palestinians or Africans, began eroding the moral legitimacy of their existence as a sovereign entity?
The answer, that historian might say, was embedded in the actions of Knesset members such as Miki Zohar and Bezalel Smotrich and the bills proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. The nation-state law, which looks like it was formulated by the worst of Europe’s ultra-nationalists, was only the beginning. Since the left did not protest against it in its Rothschild Boulevard demonstrations, it served as a first nail in the coffin of the old Israel, the one whose Declaration of Independence will remain as a museum showpiece. This archaeological relic will teach people what Israel could have become if its society hadn’t disintegrated from the moral devastation brought on by the occupation and apartheid in the territories.
The left is no longer capable of overcoming the toxic ultra-nationalism that has evolved here, the kind whose European strain almost wiped out a majority of the Jewish people. The interviews Haaretz’s Ravit Hecht held with Smotrich and Zohar (December 3, 2016 and October 28, 2017) should be widely disseminated on all media outlets in Israel and throughout the Jewish world. In both of them we see not just a growing Israeli fascism but racism akin to Nazism in its early stages.

Israeli Labour Party leader Herzog welcomes Trump to power
Like every ideology, the Nazi race theory developed over the years. At first it only deprived Jews of their civil and human rights. It’s possible that without World War II the “Jewish problem” would have ended only with the “voluntary” expulsion of Jews from Reich lands. After all, most of Austria and Germany’s Jews made it out in time. It’s possible that this is the future facing Palestinians.
Indeed, Smotrich and Zohar don’t wish to physically harm Palestinians, on condition that they don’t rise against their Jewish masters. They only wish to deprive them of their basic human rights, such as self-rule in their own state and freedom from oppression, or equal rights in case the territories are officially annexed to Israel. For these two representatives of the Knesset majority, the Palestinians are doomed to remain under occupation forever. It’s likely that the Likud’s Central Committee also thinks this way. The reasoning is simple: The Arabs aren’t Jews, so they cannot demand ownership over any part of the land that was promised to the Jewish people.
According to the concepts of Smotrich, Zohar and Shaked, a Jew from Brooklyn who has never set foot in this country is the legitimate owner of this land, while a Palestinian whose family has lived here for generations is a stranger, living here only by the grace of the Jews. “A Palestinian,” Zohar tells Hecht, “has no right to national self-determination since he doesn’t own the land in this country. Out of decency I want him here as a resident, since he was born here and lives here – I won’t tell him to leave. I’m sorry to say this but they have one major disadvantage – they weren’t born as Jews.”
From this one may assume that even if they all converted, grew side-curls and studied Torah, it would not help. This is the situation with regard to Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers and their children, who are Israeli for all intents and purposes. This is how it was with the Nazis. Later comes apartheid, which could apply under certain circumstances to Arabs who are citizens of Israel. Most Israelis don’t seem worried.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: An Israeli Hypocrisy

If a racism survey were held in Western countries like the one on anti-Semitism, Israel would be near the top of the list

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