@ErikvanStraten @seachanger and yes, Israeli politicians did every one of these things.
Also, this is NOT an antisemitic comparison. This is something the Israeli left has done before.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-729677
@ErikvanStraten @seachanger
And people may accuse me of being an alarmist or cheapening the memory of what the Nazis did. What I would remind them is that Nazism is not in any way an especially unique ideology. Ideologies that are similar to Nazism can emerge in any sufficiently racist society that is facing a crisis of capitalism. That is the scariest part of it all.
No country is immune to dictatorship and genocide, and indeed dictatorship and genocide has been the norm throughout human history.
In addition, I would remind them that the Nazis started small. They began as the radical racists and antisemites who ranted passionately about the "subhumans" who wanted to destroy the "master race", and spoke of the weakness of parliamentary democracy. Then they gained power, started throwing their political opponents into camps, and it all went downhill from there, forming a positive feedback loop that led to genocide.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-great-depression
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism-an-overview
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/political-prisoners
@ErikvanStraten @seachanger
And people may accuse me of being an alarmist or cheapening the memory of what the Nazis did. What I would remind them is that Nazism is not in any way an especially unique ideology. Ideologies that are similar to Nazism can emerge in any sufficiently racist society that is facing a crisis of capitalism. That is the scariest part of it all.