Thread by @muhammadshehad2

🧵The 1st to predict this inevitability in 1934 was Jewish-German psychologist Erich Neumann, who wrote upon meeting Zionists in Palestine:
"Everything [here] leads to fascism... I fear that all our repressed passions, all our ambitions for power and revenge, all the brutality hidden in us, will come to fruition here... This could result in the 'shadow' finally being released & here in Palestine for the 1st time it could be seen & erupt, because there is no external pressure here. It will certainly not be pleasant"

2\ In 1948, Albert Einstein & Hannah Arendt noticed it quickly & warned that Israel's Haherut party (today Netanyahu's Likud) was akin to "Nazi & Fascist parties" in its "organization, methods, political philosophy & social appeal".

3\ Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz introduced the term "Judeo-Nazis" in the 1980s, where he warned that continued military occupation of the Palestinian territories would lead to the moral degradation of Israel's army:

4\ In 1988, Holocaust survivor Yehuda Elkana warned that the tendency in Israel to see all potential threats as existential & all opponents as Nazis would lead to "Nazi-like behavior"

While Israeli scholar Omer Bartov warned "having researched the crimes of the German Army, I was afraid that the IDF would be similarly brutalized."

5\ In 1983, the brother of Israel's Defence Minister "likened Israel’s settlement drive on the West Bank to Nazi Germany’s quest for lebensraum & accused the Israelis of subjecting Palestinian Arabs to curfews, torture, confiscation & mass arrests. He said Israel wants the Arabs out of the territory."
jta.org/archive/arens-…

6\ During the 1st Intifada in 1987, some Israeli soldiers began comparing themselves to Nazis in an admission of moral injury & shame: "I felt like, like, like a Nazi ... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis & they were the Jews."

7\ In the 2000s, more Israelis were making that comparison:

Lizzie Sagi, then senior official in B'Tselem, wrote that "Israel causes humanity's greatest horrors ... Israel proves devotion to Nazi values."

8\ By 2012, some Israeli right-wingers began proudly comparing themselves to Nazis

"My only problem with the Nazis is that I was on the losing side" – current chief of staff of Israel's security ministry Chanamel Dorfman

9\ During the Gaza genocide, Israel's mayor of Metula David Azoulai said in an interview: "The whole Gaza Strip needs to be empty. Flattened. Just like in Auschwitz. Let it be a museum for all the world to see what Israel can do. Let no one reside in the Gaza Strip"