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.”

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
    2613·
    5 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?

    • crapwittyname@lemm.eeEnglish
      175·
      5 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.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
        14·
        5 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!”

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
            16·
            5 months ago

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

              • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
                1·
                5 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.

                • Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
                  1·
                  5 months ago

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

            • wicked@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              5 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.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1812·
      5 months ago

      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.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          23·
          5 months ago

          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.

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
            22·
            5 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.

            • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              23·
              5 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.

              • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
                21·
                5 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.

                • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  12·
                  5 months ago

                  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.

                  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
                    21·
                    5 months ago

                    Because Israel is a Jewish state?

                    I tend to say Jew when when someone trends towards hating all Israelis, because hatred towards Israel is a common dog whistle for antisemites. After the “It’s ok to criticize Israel” meme went viral, many antisemites did a find and replace on “Jew” and changed it to “Israeli”. Those same antisemitic conspiracy theories most people would immediately denounced by most people before are now commonly spread simply because one word was changed. When I see those conspiracy theories espoused with one word different from the original, I bring it back to the original version. Why would I pretend that I don’t know the intent for these conspiracy theories?

                    Sometimes it’s important to take what you’re saying and put the word Jew in there. If what you’re saying about Israel suddenly becomes uncomfortable when “Israeli” is replaced with “Jew”, then you should consider more carefully what you’re saying. Someone says “wipe them off the map” they are talking about the ethnic cleansing of Jews after all. Or do you honestly believe that those that want Israel wiped off the map would displace Arab Israelis along with the Jewish Israelis? Come on…

                    The trick to avoid being a racist is introspection. Some consideration about whether your thinking is being guided by racism every now and then. If it’s uncomfortable to hear your rhetoric being applied to Jews rather than Israelis or “Zionists”, then maybe you should be checking how you’re thinking about things a little more.

                    If me considering your rhetoric as being against Jews makes you uncomfortable, then good. Your discomfort might lead to introspection.