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Is it antisemitic to compare Israel in 2024 to Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s?
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Sources: JCRC, ADL, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Times of Israel
No comparison can be made between the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the atrocities committed by the Nazis against six million Jews and millions of others.
While one can fairly criticize the actions of the Israeli government and its leaders, there’s a big contrast to the Holocaust. There’s no Israeli ideology, policy, plan, or movement to exterminate the Palestinian people as with the Nazi party’s “Final Solution”.
Comparing Israel to Nazis plays on old antisemitic stereotypes about the Jewish people as demonic and uniquely evil.
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Sources: JCRC, ADL, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Times of Israel