Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler as he called for Israel to resettle the Gaza Strip and create a “Hebrew Gaza.”

Feiglin, who quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party to found the right-wing Zehut Party and plans to challenge Likud in Israel’s next elections, made the comments during a panel discussion on Israel’s Channel 12 that was shared on social media on Sunday, as Middle East Eye reported.

“We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it…” Feiglin said, adding, “As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.”

  • @[email protected]
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    2711 months ago

    Seems like a nut.

    Also he’s not in office. It’s kinda like getting upset if George Santos said something insane.

    I get that people are working hard to find evidence for the “Israel = Nazis” narrative that’s currently trending, but kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel aren’t we?

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      Ex Likud members which used to be part of the Knesset that are now running their own party and saying this stuff on mainstream israeli TV channels does indicate something.

      Unless they arrested this guy for saying literal Nazi shit on TV of course. Surely israel would do that right.

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          Israel is currently jailing any Arab which posts anything on social media which the state does not condone.

          Arabs in Israel face reprisals over online solidarity with Gaza

          The Palestinian singer Dalal Abu Amneh was arrested briefly this week when she went to a police station to file a complaint after receiving hundreds of death threats. Rather than investigating her complaint, police detained her because of a comment she posted on Facebook, said her lawyer, Abir Bakr.

          “They put cuffs on her hands and feet, and subjected her to insults and humiliation. They want to frighten people and teach them a lesson through Dalal,” Bakr said. After the start of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, Abu Amneh had posted “there is no victor but Allah” alongside a Palestinian flag on her Facebook page.

          Invoking literal Hitler in a context that literally calls for literal Genocide on mainstream TV, does call into question if there are any double standards present here.

          Now that antisemitism isn’t a problem anymore for israel either since they’re literally quoting Hitler it’s getting pretty obvious that israel is just doing Nazi Germany and white power.

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            Here you are claiming antisemitism isn’t a problem in the same sentence where you’re implying all Jews are just like the worst one you can find.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              210 months ago

              As you are a known israel defender I’m not going to bother with this extremely antisemitic comment but defending Nazism is a new low for you.

              • @[email protected]
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                310 months ago

                I’m known? Cool!

                See the difference between you and I is that I attribute the actions on October 7 to Hamas, not the Palestinian people. But you see any Israeli doing something wrong you use it to paint everyone in Israel as being that way.

                You can split hairs about whether that’s antisemitism, but I don’t care. When you see one person of an ethnicity and/or religious group doing something wrong and then go on to say “they” do things like that, you’re showing what kind of person you are.

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                  You keep describing israelis as “Jews”. A description israel itself rejects as it claims it is secular.

                  So somehow is both “Jewish”, but also “secular”, But also somehow also has Palestinians if Apartheid needs to be defended.

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      1711 months ago

      Or, here’s another way of looking at it. Man who voluntarily left the ruling party of Israel and remains a part of Israel’s political class quotes Hitler. Not in the way we all quote Hitler to show that a point of view is wrong because Hitler held it, but rather in the way we quote someone like Nelson Mandela or Albert Einstein; to support an argument because we respect the source.
      Meaning, Israeli politician respects Hitler.

      Israel=Nazis is trending because the Israeli regime is genocidal, just like the Nazi regime that necessitated the creation of Israel, which is tragically ironic. This news piece is just garnish.

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        111 months ago

        I see people constantly invoking the Nazis to make excuses for the actions of Hamas. The logic is “Israel is like Nazis therefore everything Hamas does it permissible.” It’s idiotic reasoning but it’s commonplace here.

        This guy is similarly idiotic. If you’re outraged by what this guy is saying, look at the rationalizations people on here do everyday in support of Hamas. It’s the same eye for an eye kind of thinking. “Other side is Nazis, therefore we should do horrible things!”

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            111 months ago

            I guess you just pretend not to see comments all over Lemmy expressing support for Hamas?

            • @[email protected]
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              211 months ago

              I read newspapers in several languages and see your strawman in comments all over the world: Criticizing Israel means supporting Hamas.

              In reality pretty much everyone is explicitly not supporting Hamas terrorists while arguing for a stop to the Israeli atrocities.

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                110 months ago

                Doesn’t mean there isn’t support for Hamas abounds.

                They seem like immature TikTok kids from what I can tell, but they’re around.

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                  110 months ago

                  Oh definitely. I’m just saying both sides have their indiscriminant supporters and that one side is way overrepresented in my experience

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      I downvoted, now you’re doing Holocaust inversion.

      Like, yeah, most people want to live in peace, Jews and Arabs alike. This guy is literally quoting Hitler as a guy who had the right worldview, so not him.

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      211 months ago

      Actually, everyone and it goes many millennia back. If everywhere you go it smells like crap, look at your foot.

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      Promotors and apologists for genocide seem to believe “rooting out the Nazis” is an excuse they can claim with no evidence. This ignores the entire point that most people could not give less of a shit how you label the indiscriminate murder of civilians.

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      1511 months ago

      “Downvote if you’re a nazi”

      Oh no, he cracked the code, how can we downvote now???

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      The Jews have a lot of awful history. But right now it’s Israel who are comitting Genocide. That’s not “living in peace”

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    1211 months ago

    A politician who got the 36th position in the Likud list 10 years ago.
    The party he founded after that didn’t get even 1 mandate.

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    12311 months ago

    … does he not see the irony in calling the other guys nazis while directly (and knowingly) quoting Hitler?

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

      It’s the same projection play that the GOP and Russia use. Antifa are fascists. LGBTQ+ people are oppressing us. Ukrainians are Nazis, let’s abduct all their children.

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      1411 months ago

      It’s not directed at you or me or most others, it’s a rallying cry to his supporters.

      I’d call it a dog-whistle but he said all of it out loud.

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      I get the impression with a lot of Israeli politicians, they didn’t hate the Nazis so much as they hated being the out-group of the Nazis. Since, as soon as they were able to establish a foothold of power they’ve largely followed the same playbook, but with themselves as the “Master Race” and everybody else as the vermin to exterminate.

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        Fascist thought is perfectly compatible between countries of different races. The philosophy is the “right” type of people should expel (or murder) undesirable minorities and take the resources they need. If those minorities go somewhere else and oppress some other people, that’s just how the world is supposed to work when it’s not corrupted by things like equal rights or respect for personal freedom. It’s how Aryan-supremacist Germany had no issues allying with Japan. They both believed in a world order where it was the natural state of things for racially homogeneous states to dominate lesser races and claim the resources for their people. Because they’re just better, and all the problems are from race-mixing and kowtowing to the undeserving.

        One of the early anti-Jewish efforts by the Nazis (promoted now by some Israeli politicians for Palestinians) was encouraging Jews migrate somewhere else, Israel being one of the common destinations.

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        311 months ago

        Zionists collaborated with the Nazis to try and create a Zionist Palestine, very early on. This is well documented.

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        1211 months ago

        Zionists collaborated with the Nazis to try and create a Zionist Palestine, very early on. This is well documented.

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      1811 months ago

      I mean, Likud is the successor organization to the original Zionists, so they’ve always been genocidal ethno-fascists. But this guy decided to form his own party because Likud apparently wasn’t ethno-fascist enough for him.

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        211 months ago

        The “original zionists” were socialist and communists who tried to do things in the way of cooperation and peace, and were a defensive group.
        The offensive groups splintered off the original one after Arab riots and massacres of Jews.

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    Pretty much the entirety of the Zionist propaganda follows the same ethno-Fascist lines as the Nazis stuff, from the “chosen people” and them claiming to represent a whole ethnicity to their claims that their agressive murderous violence along ethnic lines is “defense” and even calling anybody who criticizes their violence as being against their race, in the case of Zionists by calling the “anti-semites” whilst the Nazis would say that such critics were “against the Arian Race”.

    Most of what the Zionists say is just Nazi propaganda with “Arian Race” replaced by “Jewish People” and “against the Arian Race” replaced by “anti-semite”.

    So one kind a member of an ethno-Fascist ideology - a Zionist - directly quoting the leader of another ethno-Fascist ideology such as Hiltler, is not at all surprising.

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      It does seem like the TL;DR of right wing Israelis is “Hitler was right, but his only problem was that he was killing us.”

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    5311 months ago

    Wow, Bibi wasn’t quite far right enough for this Jewish Nazi. And fucking ironic he’s talking about ‘Islamo-Nazi’ s.

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        And nearly twenty years old but still relevant.

        You know what I’d probably be doing right now if I was a Palestinian who was 8 at the start of that graph? Not looking to shake hands with my neighbors that’s for sure.