Regarding the #Naza film and debate about war crimes vs genocide, the debate has been underway for a while, based on the documentary makers research, I published this in July 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1... People are beginning to understand the illusion of the war/genocide distinction.
![Progressive Israelis, such as the historian Moshe Zimmermann, openly worry
about people like Feiglin. Some of them are running the country , and he takes
them at their word as akin to Nazis. Speaking at the Fritz Bauer Institute in
Frankfurt in December 2025, Zimmermann told its stunned director, the
historian Sybille Steinbacher, and discussant, the editor of the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, Jürgen Kaube, that these government figures reasoned
about Palestinians in the same way as Heinrich Himmler reasoned about Jews in
his notorious Posen speech of 4 October 1943: as security threats who needed to
be killed “prophylactically
”
—even the women and children. If the comparison
held, he concluded, then Israelis on the right are doing “the same” as the Nazis.
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Moshe Zimmermann made these remarkable comments in response to Jürgen
Kaube’s standard catechism argument that, while the Israeli campaign may be
excessive, it was not eliminatory like the Holocaust because it was not
characterized by the Nazi-like attempt to exterminate Palestinians for being
Palestinians. A war was going on, after all, which differs from the Holocaust, in
which “millions [of Jews] were murdered… who had not done anything.
” The
conflict with Palestinians was about land, by contrast. And, he was implying,
they were not absolutely innocent. Ergo: the Israelis were not like Nazi Germans,
and Anne Frank is absolutely innocent but not Hind Rajab.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:clyc4jk3ibbc2jcdkqbacefv/bafkreif4kslzdpvm2psc6te73tobloliu4xnkdz2p5s4ftua53bdafjeve)
