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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">I used to think the term ’Judeo-Nazis’ was excessive. I don’t any longer.</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Adam Horowitz</div>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">December 8, 2023<br></div>
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<font size="1">Photo shared by Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor Arieh King on social media of
over a hundred naked Palestinians who were kidnapped by the Israeli
military in Gaza, December 8, 2023 </font>
<p>The late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz applied the term “Judeo-Nazis” back in the late 1980s when he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM2fXTkjU2E">referred</a>
to former Supreme Court Judge Meir Landau, who effectively legalized
torture, by that description. He made his arguments strongly: “The State
of Israel represents the darkness of a state body, where a creature of a
human form who was the president of the Supreme Court decides that the
use of torture is permitted in the interest of the state.” </p>
<p>I took it as a kind of moral exaggeration. It was bad — Palestinians
were being tortured systematically, but somehow I thought, we’re not
quite as genocidal as Nazis. </p>
<p>But today, I feel differently. Yesterday, Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor Arieh King <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-municipality-official-calls-burying-alive-subhuman-palestinian">tweeted</a>
a photo of over a hundred naked Palestinians who were kidnapped by the
Israeli military in Gaza, handcuffed, and sitting in the sand, guarded
by Israeli soldiers. King wrote that “The IDF is exterminating the Nazi
Muslims in Gaza” and that “we must up the tempo”. “If it were up to me,”
he added, “I would bring 4 D9’s [bulldozers], place them behind the
sandy hills and give an order to bury all those hundreds of Nazis alive.
They are not human beings and not even human animals, they are subhuman
and that is how they should be treated,” King said. He ended by
repeating Netanyahu’s biblical Amalek genocidal reference: “Eradicate
the memory of the Amalek, we will not forget.” </p><div id="gmail-mondo-ads-32039036">
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<p>While Israel called it a “<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-63-israeli-army-rounds-up-strips-and-blindfolds-civilian-men-in-gaza-takes-them-to-unknown-location/">Hamas roundup</a>,” the men and children in those photos, <a href="https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/1733109148592812277">as young as </a>13
years old, were doctors, journalists, shopkeepers, and other civilians
who had sought refuge in UNRWA schools in Beit Lahia. They had been
arbitrarily kidnapped and separated from their families.</p>
<p>King’s tweet had been reposted by Middle East Monitor and was
apparently just over the top for X, as it seems to have been removed by
the platform. But not to worry: this morning, King <a href="https://x.com/arieh_king/status/1733019431838560437?s=20">tweeted again</a>
with the same photo and others (of naked Palestinian boys and men on
trucks), this time opening his post with a biblical quote referring to
Amalek, perhaps in order to confuse the algorithms. He quoted from
Deuteronomy 25, 19:</p>
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<p>“When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around
you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall
blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Still, King found it necessary to emphasize the current relevance, lest it be too vague:</p>
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<p>“Hundreds of sons of Amalek, Muslim-Nazis, what do you think their judgment should be?”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So, it is clear that we are really in Nazi times, and it really does
bring associations of the Holocaust. This rhetoric and these deeds are
now everywhere. Today, journalist and media host Yinon Magal (who was
formerly a lawmaker in Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party and hosts a
radio show with Ben Caspit on centrist Maariv 103FM radio) tweeted the
same photo with a split screen featuring a 1967 photo of Palestinian
prisoners (notably, dressed), and wrote that “history repeats itself.”
He could just as well have used a 1948 Nakba photo or, for that matter, a
Holocaust photo. Magal just does not seem to get the irony: history,
indeed, repeats itself. </p>
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<p>Yesterday, Magal <a href="https://x.com/YinonMagal/status/1732787329238995368?s=20">tweeted</a>
a photo of some of these naked boys and men as they sat on the razed
street in Beit Lahiya and seriously asked, “why aren’t there women in
the photo.” </p>
<p>It’s hard to even get around all of the layers of perversion here. </p>
<p>Earlier yesterday, Magal <a href="https://x.com/YinonMagal/status/1732652279461757102?s=20">shared</a> a video of Israeli soldiers in Gaza singing and dancing, and he typed the words of their genocidal song approvingly: </p>
<p><em>“I have come to conquer Gaza </em><br><em>And hit Hizbollah on the head</em><br><em>And only adhere to one mitzvah [deed]</em><br><em>To eradicate the seed of Amalek</em><br><em>I have left my house behind</em><br><em>And will not return until victory [is achieved]</em><br><em>Everyone knows our slogan</em><br><em>There are no uninvolved”</em></p>
<p>These are not just the chants of some kids on the hills. They are
soldiers in Gaza — the same soldiers perpetrating this horrific genocide
right in front of our eyes. Those cheerleading them in explicitly
genocidal terms are not just far-right fanatics either; this spirit is
everywhere. </p>
<p>I am speaking to some fellow activists who find it really hard to
cope with this. We can hardly follow the horrors, the rising death toll —
while U.S. officials say that the Israeli assault might continue in its
current mode <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-61-u-s-believes-israels-gaza-invasion-could-last-until-the-end-of-january/">until the end of January</a> and then continue with a “lower-intensity, hyper-localized strategy.” </p>
<p>How on earth can this genocide continue with the whole world
watching, we ask ourselves? Well, the answer appears to be that it is
continuing precisely because the whole world has chosen to watch it
rather than stop it. This is on us all.</p>
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