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0 pointsShacklz9mo ago0 comments

> "‘If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you,’ the Israeli stand-up comedian Gil Kopatz posted. ‘It’s not genocide, it’s pesticide.’

I have such a hard time understanding how such statements can find an accepting audience in this day and age; in Israel of all places.

Replace "Israeli stand-up comedian" with "some Nazi propagandist in the 30s/40s" and "Gazans" with "Jews", and I'm sure it would be a perfectly accurate historical quote.

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alkyon9mo ago

Fully agreed, this Gil Kopatz could as well write articles in Der Stürmer. The same rhetoric was used by the Nazis. For instance, they compared Jews to rats:

Caption: “When the vermin are dead, the German oak will flourish once more.” (December 1927)

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/images...

tpm9mo ago

> in Israel of all places

The trauma propagates itself. To break the circle is extraordinary, normal is to continue in it.

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