The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear
JVL Introduction
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a solemn occasion, affirms Natasha Roth-Rowland.
But it is also an opportunity for hasbarists to share one of their favorite, and most repugnant, smears: that the Palestinian people are, in fact, Nazis.
The slur takes many forms, from Netanyahu’s 2015 baseless allegation that al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, gave Hitler the idea for the Holocaust, to Israeli Diaspora Minister’s recent description of the PA as “most antisemitic entity on earth” to the common application of the word “Judenrein” to areas under Israel’s control not yet settled by Jews…
All this has a purpose as Roth-Rowland makes clear: “Describing one’s victims using the internationally-recognized shorthand for pure evil makes the ugly business of colonization and occupation not just permissible, but a moral imperative.”
This article was originally published by +972 Magazine,the Landline on Thu 20 Apr 2023. Read the original here.
The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear
The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians ‘Nazis’ for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.
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Why is NRR so sure that the fascists swarming around the Knesset – and the ministries – are merely fantasising about ‘mowing the grass’ to the point of a FINAL SOLUTION of the ‘Palestinian problem’? If these are not plans (remember Plan Dalet?) surely they are aspirations at the very least.
The mufti was supported by the British, not Palestinians.
He happened to be Palestinian, but wasnt a leader of Palestinians as that implies he was popular and supported by Palestinians, and it was actually the British who appointed him.
Anwar Sadat, who eventually made peace with Israel, had also once been a Nazi ally, so this constant focus on one unpopular British appointed mufti is a bit selective and clearly being used to legitimise Palestinian oppression.