Well, this jewish, israeli (born, raised, and educated) holocaust professor, with decades of experience and many titles under his belt acquired specifically in the field of genocide and the Holocaust hasn’t seen what the armchair historians on the internet have to say.

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Can we please stop using these nonsensical claims? What historian? A Reddit armchair hero? Can you please get an actual known historian with a name?

Having said that, Israel has been committing genocidal acts for decades now. What Hamas did is awful and despicable, but it’s a proverbial bloody nose they dealt to Israel in comparison.

Religious extremism in Israel is to blame for this, IMHO. They claim that their gods says it’s okay that they steal houses, the Israeli government acts as if it doesn’t happen. Palestinians then protest this, get arrested, tortured or shot. Kids throw stones, get shot. Israëli government acts as if their nose bleeds.

Then they hit back hard, and now their nose IS bleeding and everybody is “poor Israelis”

No. I feel for the families that have their loved ones killed and kidnapped, I do, and Hamas must be stopped. However, we can’t simply blame Hamas and completely ignore what Israel is doing right now and more importantly, what it’s been doing for the past 60 years.

It. Has. To. Stop.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

An Israeli historian and Holocaust scholar has called how Israel is treating Palestinians in Gaza “a textbook case of genocide.”

Israel’s official account on X, formerly known as Twitter, said: “Unlike the barbaric enemy we are fighting, we do everything we can to keep innocent civilians safe.”

“This dehumanizing language is clearly calculated to justify the wide scale destruction of Palestinian lives; the assertion of ‘evil,’ in its absolutism, elides distinctions between Hamas militants and Gazan civilians, and occludes the broader context of colonization and occupation,” he wrote.

that the attack by Hamas was “a horrendous war crime,” but using the term “evil” to describe the militant group is to “decontextualize” and “enhance the widespread fantasies of Israelis today that they’re fighting Nazis.”

He referred to a recent television interview where former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett lashed out at an anchor for asking about the Palestinian civilians suffering in Gaza by declaring, “We’re fighting Nazis.”

There is a “long history” of this “shameful use of Holocaust memory, which Israeli politicians have used to justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow mass violence against Palestinians,” Segal said.

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