#freepalestine means the opposite of "Never Again"
tl;dr The actual comparison is often omitted when insisting that something someone hates is Nazi. As such, modern Nazi comparisons have no value.
The first headline on my feed today was a JPost article, “Russia claims Israel supports neo-Nazis in Ukraine after Lavrov-Hitler flap.” It carried the caption, “The claim comes a day after Israeli leaders lambasted the Russian foreign minister for claiming Hitler had Jewish origins.”
How can opposing sides of a war both be Nazis? Shouldn’t at least one side be the ones fighting the Nazis?
Sadly, we are decades past the first time the ludicrous claim came that Jews or Israel are supportive of Nazis. The world is obsessed with a group, long out of power, still emblematic of evil. When talking about a Russian genocide, the likes of Stalin are not invoked, but rather Hitler. [1]
Before World War 2, Hitler himself was regularly compared to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon and Nebuchadnezzar. Napolean may have been responsible for genocide of 0.5% of the world’s population at the time (<3 Million people). And yet, revering these three men today would go unnoticed.
Today, every lame comparison focuses on one man, Hitler, and one fascist group, Nazis. It’s maddening.
Putin compared to Hitler at a protest. Zelenskyy, Bibi, Trump and many others received the same comparison.
In spite of BDS fans explicitly advocating for Jewish genocide, out in the open, Jews such as myself are forbidden from calling out the death cult’s Nazi-esq beliefs. I was previously banned from social media simply for calling out that Arab Supremacy insists Jews should be expelled from neo-Palestine, as well conspiracies of Jews stealing money and land, controling banks. Nazi ideas are passed off as “freeing Palestine.” There is no doubt that Free Palestine stems from Pan-Arabism, which held close ties to Nazis. Yet Jews, the group famously targeted by Nazis, can not speak out today about what really threatens them. Utterance of the word “Nazi” gets you in trouble, but only if you are a Jew.
Today’s neo-Nazis are a threat, but we have bigger issues, like Free Palestine and other IRGC proxxies. I dealt with one of these Hitler-loving Nazis in college for years. Alec Rheimer would come over, uninvited, to show me charts of NBC and other media’s execs, claiming all were Yahoods. The ole “Jews run the media” conspiracy.[1] I’d respond to Alec, “That name isn’t Jewish.” “This person doesn’t look Jewish.” “How many execs are not shown here?” (yadda yadda yadda) None of it mattered. Things stayed calm.[2] I hoped the Nazi would leave me alone. Eventually he did.
Free Palestine groups are a far more persistent, dangerous threat. They claim to target “Zionist synagogues” and “Zionist organizations.” You know, like Hillel and Chabad. Jewish ones. They dream of purifying Judea and Jerusalem of “Zionists.” Again, they mean Jews. This death cult has gone out in NYC’s Time Square, wearing red armbands like Nazis, yet are praised by the left for “resisting occupation.” The “Free Publicity” mob does not mind that their actions directly lead to terrorist acts, including taking hostages, murdering Jewish, Christian, Druze and anyone who gets in the way of their caliphate dream. This is a cult so aware of the horrors they advocate for, they advocate using gobbledygook words to mask meaning. Each sentence ends in the same “apartheid genocide zionazi bla bla bla”.
Again, this is the only group where the Nazi comparisons are endless. Both Nazis and Free Palestine groups feign religious ties to openly push misogynistic, homophobic and anti-secular beliefs, scapegoating Jews.
Take this excert from Mein Kampf, that sounds nearly identical to recent BDS tirades, “the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.”
It’s no surprise Hitler mentions Zionism and Jews in Palestine as his example of Jews being evil globalists. Even less surprising, like the BDS movement, Hitler remains in denial that he is an antisemite. He claims Judaism is not his issue, Zionism is. Today the world accepted that Hitler is an antisemite, regardless of his claims he is not. They have not accepted the same of BDS movements, parroting his ideology.
I do not complain that these Nazi-esq #FreePalestine groups are allowed to give death threats under the guise of it being political. I want people to see their beliefs. Instead, I am perturbed by the fact that we can not call out these actions in public. Being anti-racist to Jewish oppressors gets you in trouble.
Again, society has accepted that the FreePalestine movement can say what the neo-Nazis believed. They can be violent. But society has not accepted people repeating it back, critically and without loaded language.
Let’s focus on what’s different: Nazis claimed Jews were occupying their land. “Palestine activists” claim Jews are occupying their land. The first belief is widely discredited. The second is taught in prestigious universities. The first movement mostly went away. The second movement is growing. The first movement had unity. The second… well I don’t need to tell you about the wars between Hamas and Fatah, how refugee camps exist within Palestinian controlled land, how Free Pal groups advocate for Islamic Jihad, the loss of Christian Arabs in Islamist areas.
So I must accept the truth — Nazi comparisons lost all meaning, long ago. We are talking about a group we did “forget.” Because the action we should be most mad at — scapegoating Jews — is left out of the conversation via a more meta idea of Nazis symbolizing evil. To the less-than-intelligent, Nazis are the same as Voldemort in Harry Potter: a word you just don’t say. The reasons why do not matter.
The idea of Jews running the media is so easily disproved. Arab terrorists are regularly praised by media as heroes, for shooting Jews out in the open, typically after desperation from their wives leaving, or owing money. Kill a Jew, and NPR, BBC, Guardian and many more papers will write “politically motivated because of Israel’s actions” without reason. Hell, the media has openly supported ISIS-affiliates, when their targets are “Zionist occupiers” (cough cough, Jews).
Alec was arrested a few years later for violently attacking people during the infamous “Unite the Right” rallies of Charlottesville, VA. And even after that, I am not remotely afraid of this chump. I know his far right leanings stem from family issues and clinging to shit friends. Neo-Nazis and FreePal groups are more dumb than menacing, but FreePal groups are more widely supported for their attacks, which they conduct more often. Thus they are clearly a bigger threat.
“Nehmen sie meinen Schlafanzug” (“Take my pajamas” in English) had me dying during South Park, Season 25 Episode 1, Pajama Day. The episode’s premise was convoluted. It made comparisons of wearing pajamas to mask mandates. Mobs of South Park criticize the Elementary School’s “PC Principal” for not allowing the protagonists’ class from participating in Pajama Day. The local news reporter even dresses like a Nazi to poke fun of the “Nazi-esq” policy… of canceling Pajama Day.
I had been ranting about absurd Nazi comparisons years prior to this episode. Covid brought a fresh wave of insane people who genuinely believe their struggle — being asked to vaccinate, not being allowed to certain concerts and shows for a year, being asked to show vaccine history etc. — were akin to Nazi policies that led to genocide and World War 2. Elon Musk and fringe GOP politicians compared Justin Trudeau to Hitler. The worst of the worst wore Yellow (“Jude”) Badges… though none were Jewish.
I can go on with menial policies absurdly compared to the Nazis and Holocaust. “Feminazis”, “Grammar Nazis” are two common absurd ones. These comparisons, and many more, that truly hurt society as a whole. But nothing is more insane than comparing anything Jews do today to Nazis. And yet, we are constantly faced with Holocaust Inversion (using Holocaust comparisons to attack Jews/Israel). We are told a semi-stateless people who have increased 9-fold is a “genocide,” while the murder of 2/3 of the Jewish population is not. With that, we have to stop Nazi comparisons all together. They are not doing anyone any favors.
Pajama Day Nazis!
Maybe you’re not convinced. You think Nazis pose a major threat today. I implore you to search for attacks they’ve committed since World War 2. They exist. And maybe you will educate me on why neo-Nazis are a bigger threat than I realize. But at the moment, they look to me like edgy morons cosplaying out of a twisted sense of humor, with horrible isolationist and supremacy beliefs. The antisemites I’m more worried about are the ones who claim they’re not antisemitic… not the ones who are openly proud of their bigotry..
And while you’re doing that research, here’s some of the attacks the “Palestinian Organizations” have committed on Jews, outside of Israel, all after World War 2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Anti-Jewish_riots_in_Tripolitania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Cairo_bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Menarsha_synagogue_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Antwerp_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Paris_synagogue_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Vienna_synagogue_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Antwerp_synagogue_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue_of_Rome_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue_of_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Copenhagen_bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neve_Shalom_Synagogue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Brooklyn_Bridge_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_arrest_of_Iranian_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Beth_El_(Syracuse,_New_York) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Synagogue_Adath_Israel_of_Riverdale#2000_terror_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Casablanca_bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Talmud_Torahs_of_Montreal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Manhattan_terrorism_plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Seattle_Jewish_Federation_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas%E2%80%93UNRWA_Holocaust_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse_and_Montauban_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercacher_kosher_supermarket_siege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Gothenburg_Synagogue_attack
This is not a remotely comprehensive list. It is only inclusive of attacks committed by “FreePalestine” groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PLO etc. The FreePal genocidal losers have blood on their hands. Each year they cause violent outbursts from their supporters. Sadly, most of these morons have no relation to “Palestine” beyond their identity in scapegoating Jews. The majority closer represent the “banality of evil” Arendt speaks of.
May 29th Addition: I wrote recently about how two recent terrorist attacks in the US had Nazi-esq ideology at the center, though one was far-left in Brooklyn, and the other far-right in Buffalo. I may publish this too, after some more blog entries. In neither case were Jews the primary target, as they are with all FreePalestine attacks. Which does not mitigate their danger.
