The problem is when you mention Nazis to Jews, the first things they’ll think of are Zyklon B, Babi Yar, the piles of children’s shoes at Auschwitz, Mengele, that sort of thing.
And while what’s going on in Israel is terrible, it’s not Mengele terrible, Babi Yar terrible, or Treblinka terrible. So they write you off as just another antisemite, rather than listening to your point.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And yet that was only the very end. The stuff that came before that might as well be a mirror to the way Israel is treating the Palestinians.
Pipoca@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, not really. Nazi Germany lasted from 1933-1945.
From 1933 to 1939, things were mostly non-lethal: boycotting and vandalizing shops, banning Jews from public service or practicing law, harassing Jews, etc. The basic idea was to get Jews to emigrate out of Germany.
The first open ghettos were established in 1939, while the massacres really started in 1941.
If you’re going to compare Gaza to part of Nazi Germany, the best comparison is to the closed ghettos that were established in 1940, like the Warsaw ghetto.
Nazi Germany really isn’t a great historical comparison to Israel. Honestly, a better comparison is to the US’s treatment of Native Americans, though it’s still not a perfect analogy. The dream of Israel’s far right isn’t to murder every last Palestinian, it’s manifest destiny; an Israel stretching from the ocean to the sea even if there’s a few small reservations on it.
ferralcat@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Netanyahu and his cohorts have explicitly said they believe they need to kill every last Palestinian. motherjones.com/…/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israe…
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I read this, and from what I can tell, they explicitly said they believe they need to kill every last member of Hamas, and a different unrelated person wrote an essay about how they need to kill all Palestinians?
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jesus Christ what a fuckng psycho
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You need to look at what’s happening in West Bank.