Hamas is Nazi Germany, on a global scale.
"The Nazis sought to hide the evidence of their genocide. Hamas posted it on Facebook and Telegram."
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On February 26th, Malka Simkovich left her house in Chicago and passed a car adorned with Palestinian and Hamas flags.1
The drivers had their windows halfway down and were wearing Hamas’ green headbands. They were laughing and yelling, though she could not hear what they were saying.
Mind you, Malka lives in a neighborhood with many Jewish residents, including Holocaust survivors.
Can you imagine what it is like for a Jew in 2024 to look outside their own home and see a flag that symbolizes the rape and genocide of the Jewish People? Can you imagine what it is like for a Jew to see these things and know that it is pointless to call the police?
Antisemitism is, of course, just another day in Jewish history. We have witnessed it for centuries, a disgusting scourge that finds a way to reopen time and again.
But when it comes to the Palestinians and their Arab and Muslim partners, we are not just talking about “another day in Jewish history.” We are talking about some of the most virulent Jew hatred you can imagine.
Across the Arab and Muslim worlds, antisemitism is used as some crazed, abstract system for making sense of a “broken” world that does not subscribe to their fundamentalist Muslim ideals. Fundamentalist Muslims do not just oppose Israel. They have called the Jewish state things like a “sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region” whose leaders “look like beasts and cannot be called human.”2
In Gaza, Muslim preachers regularly spew nauseating antisemitism, such as one who said:
“Our doctrine in fighting the Jews is that we will totally exterminate them. We will not leave a single one of them alive, because they are alien usurpers of the land and eternal mercenaries.”
This sort of antisemitism thrives where there are not any Jews. Not a person but an idea, the Jew is a unique carrier of transcendent evil: “a pollution, a stain, a dark force responsible for the failures of others, the unconscious shame and primeval urges they feel in themselves, and everything that needs explaining,” according to famed U.S. columnist David Brooks. “This is a form of derangement, a flight from reality even in otherwise sophisticated people.”3
In the Palestinian territories, such propaganda is indoctrinated in children from very young ages, as they are taught the supreme value and various methods of killing Jews. In United Nations schools, mosques, and other government-sanctioned venues, they learn to glorify hatred and nurture violence. In “summer camps,” they teach kids how to fire automatic weapons and kidnap Israelis.
If you think this is not ludicrous enough, both Palestinian governments — Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank) — literally incentivize terrorism against Israelis.
That’s right, if you commit a terror attack against Israelis and are jailed for it in Israel, you’ll receive a monthly salary from one of these Palestinian governments, and your family will also receive monthly stipends.
The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and other timeless hateful publications are translated into Arabic and updated with “new additions” — to the point that a healthy majority of the public is thoroughly convinced “Zionists” are pure filth who ought to be unsoiled from “Palestine.”
But it does not end in the Palestinian territories; we know virulent antisemitism exists within a variety of social institutions across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and other Arab and Muslim-majority states.
Certainly, this is nothing new to Israelis. We have seen this game played many times before, and we knew it was only a matter of hours after the bloodiest day in Israeli history (October 7th) that the Palestinians and their Arab and Muslim partners (as well as Russia) would unleash their virulent antisemitism (disguised as “anti-Zionism” and “anti-Israel”) across the world.
Even then, the Palestinians did not even try to cover up their October 7th mischief, but instead decided to record it on body cams and disseminate the footage on social media. They even reportedly invited photographers from the Associated Press, New York Times, and CNN to photograph these atrocities in real-time, so these “photojournalists” could send their footage to these outlets in the form of “news media.”
Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States who’s worked on issues in Gaza, said of the Palestinians’ abhorrently unapologetic and celebratory antisemitism:
“There is ritual to it, bloodlust, and theater. In contrast to the Nazis, who understood that the Holocaust was stressful work for its perpetrators and that images of its conduct might shock even the most Jew-hating Germans, Hamas and other Jihadist groups enjoy their job and assume that a great many others will applaud them.”4
“The Nazis sought to hide the evidence of their genocide. Hamas posted it on Facebook and Telegram. It’s difficult to imagine the citizens of Dresden, say, handing out candy and setting off fireworks after the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto in 1944. Not so the [Palestinians] after virtually every major terrorist attack, their celebrations reaching a frenzy on October 7th. Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, followed Hamas terrorists through the breaks in Israel’s fence and carried out atrocities no less horrific.”
And it does not end with their belligerently barbaric attacks on innocent Israelis. They seek opportunity after opportunity to defecate the existence of Israel — and, by extension, the Jews — with some of the purest lies, fabrications, and deceit.
I am not talking about sinister forms of media that overtly encourage people to distrust Jews, overemphasize so-called Jewish bodily features, or portend that we so cleverly control the world. Sure, those are other unfortunate versions of anti-Jewish propaganda, but compared to the Palestinians’ tactics, they make the Nazis look, at worst, like a perturbed friend of the Jews.
Take, for example, when Palestinian authorities reported on October 17th (10 days after the fighting began) that Israel attacked a hospital, allegedly killing some 500 people. Within minutes, thousands of notable media outlets, many Arab and Muslim-majority countries, organizations like the antisemitic United Nations and others, politicians, political puppets, thought leaders, and influencers took this Palestinian propaganda and ran with it to the moon and back — 1,402 times.
In Israel, even as the Israel Defense Forces immediately announced it was conducting an investigation, we recognized this all-too-familiar way of doing business. For years, Palestinian terrorists have been killing their own people — either purposely, accidentally, or a combination of both — and then manipulate these tragedies into an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish libel. And oh what a libel this was.
Some days later, howls of outrage swept across the news media and social media after the Israeli military struck an ambulance in Gaza, since it was being used in that moment by Hamas terrorists to transfer weapons.
Instead of condemning the Palestinians for turning “every single humanitarian asset into a tool of war,” as author Aviva Klompas put it, the news media and social media quickly scolded the Israelis for doing what Israel has told everyone, from day one of this war, what it was planning to do, and what the United States and many other countries have openly supported: freeing the Gaza Strip of Hamas, an unthinkably dangerous Islamic Jihadist organization.
To understand this inexplicable insanity, you have to understand that the Palestinians and their partners are playing a much different, and much more effective, game than the Nazis and other historical Jew haters.
Whereas the Nazis, for example, tried to create a subhuman and untrustworthy image of Jews in German society, and eventually across Europe, the Palestinians and their partners want to fight the Jews because they know that much of the world will remain silent, ambivalent, and apathetic to these wars.
Take, for example, all the university administrators who have either said nothing (or nothing meaningful) about the Palestinian attack on Israel — on Jews, mostly — and the blatant antisemitism, both in rhetoric and in action, that has subsequently erupted on their campuses.
Why is that? Are all these highly distinguished academic administrators also on the antisemitic spectrum, ranging from passive and complicit, to violent and lethal? Or is there something else going on here?
According to a study published in 2022 by the National Association of Academics in the United States, a study that did not attract much attention at the time, the Qataris donated $4.7 billion to U.S. universities starting in 2001, precisely after the September 11th attacks. The recipients, however, did not report part of the money received, as required by law.
What has been transpiring on the campuses of these universities and others since the war’s outbreak is a multi-participant, multifaceted strategy that is now coming to fruition at the so-called “right moment.”
In the weeks since the October 7th attacks by Palestinians in Israel, more Jewish and Israeli students across the United States have said that they fear for their safety in the face of the culture of antisemitic demonstrations and events, which are becoming increasingly violent.
These demonstrations and events have gone well beyond the boundaries of “progressive” concepts that flourish on campuses. Historically, universities are homes to free speech and critical thinking, but the speed with which the demonstrations are organized, and the availability of resources for them, raise questions like those that arose in recent days in London, where demonstrations feature huge quantities of Palestinian flags that were quickly distributed to thousands of participants.
Without realizing it, or by realizing but presuming that these are harmless demonstrations, major Western universities and cities have become hotbeds of antisemitism. This might be the reason why “anti-Zionism” agendas have intellectualized and rationalized antisemitism on college campuses, by dressing up centuries-old Jew hate in modern-day academia with sexy terms like “liberation” and “resistance” — and by attempting to rewrite much of the Israeli-Palestinian and Middle East history (or purposely editing out certain parts).
And this is exactly what so many Arabs and Muslims aspire to engender: that Jews across the world will feel tremendously fearful and intimidated, through the vehicle of Israel.
Hence why the unspeakable Palestinian attacks on October 7th in Israel were, in actuality, attacks on all Jews across the world. Israeli Jews just happened to be the so-called lowest-hanging fruit.
And what makes these attacks so bothersome is that they were not just political. As many people have pointed out, if the Palestinians just wanted their own state, Hamas would not have pursued this path, and the Palestinian Authority would not have decided to stay quiet rather than condemn these atrocities.
In addition to being political, these attacks were also ethnic, racial, religious, and ideological — a combination that makes Nazi Germany antisemitism pale in comparison in some ways.
The only reason why so many Arabs and Muslims, with their 22 Arab states and 49 Muslim-majority countries, have not systemically killed six million Jews (or more) is because the Jews now have our own real refuge: the State of Israel. Had these Arab and Muslim-majority countries not expelled the vast majority of their Jews leading up to and after Israel’s founding in 1948, who knows what they would have done to the more than one million Jews living there.
Fortunately, many of these Jews immigrated to Israel, where they (together with other Israelis) created an intelligence agency called the Mossad. For those who do not know, it is this very Mossad that has departments which look after Jews and Jewish communities across the world. Just a few weeks ago, the Mossad helped thwart an attack against Jews in Brazil.
I wish more Jews across the world, as well as our non-Jewish family and friends, would realize just how critical the State of Israel is to the Jewish People’s safety and survival, wherever we are on this planet — because there are nearly two billion Muslims seemingly everywhere.
It goes without being said that every Muslim does not hate Jews and want to kill us, but a small percentage of a massive number is not fear-mongering. It is math.
Malka Simkovich on X
“Khamenei tweets pictorial follow-up to anti-Israel vitriol.” The Times of Israel.
“How to Fight Anti-Semitism.” The New York Times.
Oren, Michael. “Why the Body Cams?” Clarity with Michael Oren. October 31, 2023. Substack.
I've never subscribed to the idea that it's only a few Muslim or a minority that are extremists who seek the death of Jews. In reality it's probably the majority and those who don't and just want to live a normal life are as terrified of the extremists as everyone else. I wonder how long it will be before a Western democracy throws Israel and thereby their Jewish population under the bus to appease the Muslims calling for Jewish blood.
We are seeing the start of the second Holocaust. And when these violent Muslim groups have satisfied their Jewish blood lust they will start on the rest of the worlds infidels
Josh, we are a group of Monitors in London who have heard repeatedly from 2012 that Hamas is in Alliance with the Re-Formed Nazi Party, through The Nazi Party's Leader Irving here in The UK. This alliance is now on Digital tape here, and therefore now on the record. This monitoring has reached The Community Security Trust, which is the main Defence Agency of Jews in The UK. So your essay is factually completely correct. The Palestinian Leadership, and Hamas, is now Nazi. Furthermore, The Nazis have sworn to Eternal War, that is to say FOREVER, against The Jews and the Russian Slavs. This is a Nazi 'Forever' War. We have monitored an taped this too, u8sing the Military TX System and equipment. All of this is now on record.