#freepalestine means the exact opposite of "Never Again"
tl;dr Virtually everyone agrees Nazis are “the most evil.” So if you label anything as Nazi or Hitler-esq, it must be evil. Sadly, the actual comparisons are often forgotten. As such, Nazi comparisons have no value.
The first headline on my news 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.”
Sadly, it is decades past the first time the ludicrous claim came that Jews or Israel are in some way supportive of Nazis. Nor will it be the last. Because the world is obsessed with a group — long out of power — but still emblematic of evil. Even when talking about a Russian genocide, the likes of Stalin are not invoked. Solely Hitler fits the bill for the image of evil.[1] Comparisons are only made to one dictator and one fascist group today.
Pre-World War 2, Hitler himself was regularly compared to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon and Nebuchadnezzar. Which is fair. 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. Is it possible that if someone worse than Hitler arises, they would replace him as the emblem of evil, and Hitler will join the ranks of these three in history?
Putin being compared to Hitler for the 6M’th time
In spite of BDS and the pan-Arab “Free Palestine” movement explicitly advocating for Jewish genocide, out in the open, Jews such as myself are forbidden from calling out our haters’ Nazi-esq beliefs. I was previously banned from social media simply for calling out that Arab Supremacy demands that Jews are expelled from neo-“Palestine”, conspiracies of Jews stealing money and land, complaints of “globalism” etc. are Nazi-esq. I believe it’s true. There is no doubt that Free Palestine stems from Pan-Arabism, which held close ties to Nazis. Yet Jews, the largest group targeted by Nazis, can not speak out today about what threatens them. Utterance of the word “Nazi” can get you in trouble for all the wrong reasons.
Today’s neo-Nazis are not an ever present threat to Jews. They certainly are a threat. But we have bigger issues! I dealt with one of these Hitler-loving cosplayers in college for years. Alec 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 at all. How many other execs are not shown here? This company is owned by another company. (yadda yadda yadda)” None of it mattered to him or I. Things stayed calm.[2] I hoped he’d leave.
Free Palestine groups are a greater threat. They claim to target “Zionist synagogues” and “Zionist organizations.” You know, like Hillel and Chabad. As in, Jewish ones. They're trying to purify Judea and Jerusalem of “Zionists.” As in Jews. The “FreePal” mob have gone out in NYC’s Time Square, wearing red armbands like Nazis, and are still praised for “resisting occupation.” They’re compared to BLM. The mob does not mind that their actions directly lead to terrorist acts, including taking hostages in synagogues, murders of Jewish, Christian, Druze and other civilians. You can not even mention what they’re advocating in the open. They manage to advocate for Arab Supremacy by using gobbledygook words to mask meaning.
Nazis claimed Jews were occupying their land. “Palestine” activists claim Jews are occupying their land. The difference? The first is discredited. The second is taught in prestigious universities. The first movement mostly went away. The second movement is growing each day. The first movement had solidarity between itself. 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, that aims to convert Christian Arabs. It’s forbidden to call out that both neo-Nazis and Free Palestine groups feign religious ties to openly push misogynistic, homophobic and anti-secular beliefs.
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.
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.
