MK Zoabi Compares Israel To Nazis At Kristallnacht Gathering

[Purveyor]

At gathering hosted by far-left Jewish group, Joint List lawmaker says Jewish state engaged in ‘ethnic cleansing’ against Palestinians

By Matt Lebovic November 8, 2015, 11:32 pm

AMSTERDAM — Denouncing Israel for “racist policies” against the Palestinians, firebrand MK Hanin Zoabi of the Joint (Arab) List party accused the Jewish state of crimes akin to those committed by the Nazis at an event marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht in the heart of Amsterdam’s decimated Jewish quarter on Sunday.

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Calling herself “one of 120,000 of her people who were not expelled by Israel in 1948,” Zoabi — who was born in Nazareth in 1969 — lashed the Jewish state for creating “more than 80 laws” that discriminate against Palestinians.

The Israeli rules, said Zoabi, are similar to the conditions under which Jews lived at the time of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany.

Standing just meters from the former site of a centuries-old Jewish orphanage decimated during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, she drew parallels between Hitler’s genocide against the Jews and current Israeli policy against Palestinians and Israeli-Arabs.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/mk-zoabi-compares-israel-to-nazis-at-kristallnacht-gathering/

[King_David]

1. Despicable antisemitism...

Thank you for posting this - she really is showing her true colors.

[oberliner]

2. Wow, that is really disgusting

And from an Israeli legislator.

Just staggering levels of Jew-hatred, even among Palestinian citizens of Israel who sit in the Knesset.

[Little Tich]

3. Just because the PM of Israel is a racist POS who loves to make Nazi comparisons,

doesn't mean that Zoabi can do the same.

Netanyahu and his f**kwit ministers are doing it because they're the bad guys.

Holocaust memorials are supposed to be commemorative events, not political platforms.

[geek tragedy]

4. The Mufti made her say that.

The Hitler card should be retired.

[leftynyc]

5. That was disgusting

Comparing Israel to the nazis while she is able to serve in the government takes a special brand of stupidity. And at the anniversary of Kristallnacht - Holy cow.

[shira]

6. Zoabi is vile...

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But rather than condemn her unconditionally, the Israel sucks crowd - as they ALWAYS do - find it best to deflect (towards Bibi or something else) in order to "balance" the criticism & minimize the situation.

[leftynyc]

7. I have zero patience

for those who embrace the magical balance fairy. If something offends, just say it offends without trying to tie it to something else - that only makes the person making that comparison look like a coward who is afraid to condemn. I have no patience for cowards.

[Israeli]

8. Taking your post here ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134118278

under consideration ...

would appreciate your comments on this :

Amos Oz: 'Price tag' vandals are 'Hebrew neo-Nazis'

Acclaimed Israel author Amos Oz slams price tag attacks and those behind them, claiming perpetrators 'enjoy support from nationalistic and even racist legislators.'

AFP, Ynetnews
Published: 05.10.14, 17:35 / Israel News

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4518061,00.html

[leftynyc]

9. Repulsive behavior

I don't really understand what price tag means but the behavior of those racist assholes should be condemned loudly and they should be charged with whatever the law allows (at the VERY least, defacing property). I detest right wing governments that allow for racism without qualification.

[Israeli]

10. You missed my point ....

quote : Comparing Israel to the nazis

Is not limited to MK Zoabi leftynyc.

Back at the disengagement in 2005 the settlers used it every which way they could .

From orange stars and striped pyjamas on little children to cursing our boys and spitting on them as Kapos etc etc etc .

So spare me the indignation against Zoabi.

[leftynyc]

11. And where am I supporting

or excusing the settlers? They're both repulsive and out of line. Why do you have a problem with condemning both sides?

[Israeli]

14. Never said you were leftynyc.....

I dont have a problem with condemning both sides.....

see : http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=117760

[leftynyc]

15. Then why ask me to spare

the indignation against Zoabi?

[Israeli]

20. Why the indignation against Zoabi's.....

....comments and not against Amos Oz's comment ???

Amos Oz: 'Price tag' vandals are 'Hebrew neo-Nazis'

[leftynyc]

22. She is attacking AN ENTIRE COUNTRY

and Oz is making a (bad) analogy on the behavior of some settlers. You think those are comparable? I don't. She is also fast and loose with the definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing (a common complaint I have with many in the Israel sucks brigade). That she did it at an event commemorating Kristallnacht is what I found particularly repulsive as the magical balance fairy gets used far too often on this subject. And while she's able to serve in the government of Israel, that was quite simply not the case for Jews under the nazis. The comparison is absurd.

[Israeli]

23. He wasnt making a "bad analogy" leftynyc.....

Maybe you want to change your post @
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134118278

[leftynyc]

24. Yes, he was

and until those settlers start lining up Palestinians and take them to the ovens, it will remain a bad analogy. And why refer back to that other article that says nothing about nazis whatsoever? Are you of the mind that if you disagree with one thing a person says EVERYTHING else said by that person is unworthy? I'm not.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Jewish Israelis compare other Jewish Israelis to Nazis all the time.

And it's usually the most RW ones doing the comparing, an example being the Gaza settlers wearing yellow stars when they were being removed from their illegal settlements. I've never seen the outrage brigade bat an eye over those Nazi comparisons.

Yet another double standard for Arabs.

[Jefferson23]

13. It's a comparison used by both sides in government, the outrage will do nothing until

the Palestinians have a viable state, an airport, sea port, their own army,
their right to self determination..all denied b/c Israel has the power to
deny them through an illegal occupation.

People get up in arms about it, but the only answer to see that rhetoric die
off is an end to the occupation.


Netanyahu Denounced for Saying Palestinian Inspired Holocaust
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/world/middleeast/netanyahu-saying-palestinian-mufti-inspired-holocaust-draws-broad-criticism.html?_r=0

[oberliner]

18. Oddly you don't object to bringing up the actions of Jewish Israelis in response to this OP

Don't you think focus should be on the remarks in question, rather than trying to provide balance (or actually just ignore the content of the OP and say Jews are worse)?

[Jefferson23]

21. I already did in my first sentence..both sides. The remainder of your remarks are funny though.

There is nothing the Palestinians have done thus far equates to the abuse
shown them via Israeli government..nothing. This has all been documented
by numerous human rights groups for many years.

[shira]

26. "Both sides". IOW, a deflection. Can't condemn it outright.

Typical.

[Jefferson23]

27. Ha ha ha, coming from you this is funny. Enjoy your outrage. n/t

[polly7]

19. +1,000,000. nt.

[Israeli]

16. All the time Crunchy Frog....

Only it was orange stars not yellow ones .

[Crunchy Frog]

30. Thanks for the correction. I was watching little snippets on American TV

and reading the occasional American news article. I didn't have the vantage point that someone in Israel would have.

[oberliner]

17. Absolutely right

It is vile and disgusting - even more so when Jewish people do it, in my opinion.

[Crunchy Frog]

29. It was a big part of the incitement that led to the Rabin assassination.

Which Netanyahu participated in.

In the months leading up to the assassination, then Likud leader (and future prime minister) Benjamin Netanyahu addressed protesters of the Oslo movement at public rallies. In some of these events, protesters held posters showing Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform or dressed as Palestinian Liberation Organization then-chairman Yasser Arafat.

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/This-Week-in-History-Rabin-assassinated-380652

That was really vile and disgusting.

[sabbat hunter]

25. If she feels this way

why doesn't she move out of the country that she obviously hates.

[Little Tich]

28. Perhaps she's an Israeli who loves her country.

It's actually possible to love Israel and be opposed to ethnic cleansing at the same time...