Ben-Gvir is a monstrous war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but this is rank Holocaust revisionism designed to use anti-Zionism as an entree into questioning all of Jewish history.
"The Nazis who survived the war were all executed at Nuremberg" is Cold War-era historical revisionism that the US needs to tell itself, to avoid confronting how many high-ranking ex-Nazis were simply rehabilitated and allowed back into West German and US politics in the name of anti-Communism.
Rhetorically, the statement "Ben-Gvir is worse than Goebbels and the Nazis" is not intended to do the work of delegitimizing Israeli politicians - you don't need this comparison for that - but rather detoxifying Nazis, to make far-right politics seem more acceptable.
We are living in an age when a basic statement like this from the Pope is going to be perceived by many as a subtweet.
Really wish he would use the terminology "state of Israel" here, given that "nation of Israel" is a plausible translation for Am Yisrael, meaning the people Israel. But, of course, conflating all Jews worldwide with the state of Israel is probably something JD Vance has no problem doing.
"It's totally fine to use the word 'goyslop,' a term originating from the conspiracy that Jews create bad food to control the world, because Israel is bad," is probably a take that was inevitable on this platform.
Given that the people arrested for plotting to attack lawmakers last weekend used TrackAIPAC as their source for their targets, it is worth noting that that TrackAIPAC is the source that lumps together AIPAC with J Street with no distinction between them.
“These are unprecedented and harsh accusations against an Israeli government and the defense establishment, especially from a former prime minister. But after years of restraint, I have no choice but to make them.” www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
"To truly enact the ideals of the civic-education movement, you would need more than a new college: you would need to reimagine the entirety of our education system and the society into which students graduate; you would need a whole new ideal of the person." harpers.org/archive/2026...
"Vladimir Lenin created anti-Zionism" is such an absurdly ahistorical statement that it beggars belief. Has this writer ever heard of Nathan Birnbaum? Karl Kraus? Hermann Cohen?
