For at least the fourth time since Oct. 7th, 2023, the Guardian has peddled the antisemitic libel comparing Israeli policies to that of Nazi Germany. The outlet, which we’ve shown over the last 15 years is in thrall to a radical anti-Zionist ideology, published their latest Nazi analogy in an opinion piece (“Israel is starving Gaza. It’s a cheap, silent and brutal way to kill“, May 7) by Ahmed Moor.
Moor, an American from Gaza who’s an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), a group which defended the Oct. 7th massacre. Indeed, Moor himself effectively justified Hamas terrorism in a piece he wrote last year at the Guardian.
Here are the opening paragraphs of Moor’s latest piece:
I recently looked up a biography of Rudolf Höss. The Kommandant who led the Auschwitz prison camp in Poland during the second world war was fastidious in his duties. He successfully oversaw the extermination of millions of people from 1940 to 1943, and, according to accounts, seems to have been a father who cared for his five children. His home life was imagined, and captured, by the film-maker Jonathan Glazer in his 2023 movie The Zone of Interest.
John Primomo recounts, in his biography, how the Nazi would randomly select groups of prisoners and sentence them to die by starvation. Höss was eventually captured by Nazi hunters and hanged for his crimes, in his case a slow death on a short gallows.
Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defense minister, is the primary architect of the starvation policy in Gaza, which is unfolding as I write. The international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest indicating “reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu … and Mr Gallant … bear criminal responsibility for … the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare.”
Gallant’s successor, Israel Katz, has embraced the Gallant policy. He and his boss, Benjamin Netanyahu, broke the ceasefire with Hamas in March. Since then, they have worked fastidiously to starve the people in Gaza – food, medicine and critical supplies for the maintenance of human life have all been prevented by Israeli troops from entering the territory for more than two months.
Later in the piece, Moor characterises Israel’s leaders as “evil” “mass murderers” who chose “starvation” as the means of genocide because it is “cheap”.
The Famine Myth
In addition to the fact that Israel delivered more than 1.3 million tonnes of food aid to Gaza since Oct. 7th, the broader famine myth, used to buttress the genocide libel, and, in this case, the Nazi analogy, is so discredited that even the Economist – hardly a pro-Israel outlet – wrote that claims of imminent famine in 2024 by international organisations “turned out to be badly wrong”. The piece later noted that Hamas has claimed that “57 people have died of starvation since the start of the war”, then adding that “sources in international agencies say these deaths were probably caused by pre-existing conditions but malnutrition may have been a contributing factor”.
Writing for The Free Press, investigative journalist Michael Aimes charged that “lazy journalism, bad data, and skewed statistics fueled accusations that Israel was starving the Gaza population”. He showed that the famine accusation gained credibility after a widely misinterpreted report was published by a UN–affiliated monitoring system, called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Global Initiative (IPC).
The IPC famine classification system declares a famine “only when the IPC’s data about a region shows that at least 20 percent of households have run out of food, at least 30 percent of children are acutely malnourished, and two people out of every 10,000 are dying each day from starvation”. In 20 years, Aimes wrote, “just four famines have been confirmed by the IPC: Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and Sudan in 2024″.
However, the IPC Gaza report was egregiously mischaracterised most mainstream outlets as evidence of “famine in Gaza”, as their conclusion about “famine” was “a projection of possible outcomes, not a conclusive finding” of current conditions in the territory.
The false claim was widely disseminated, which led an independent board of experts known as the Famine Review Committee (FRC), which is IPC’s final quality control check, to fact-check the report, ultimately rebuking the IPC’s analysis, calling its conclusions insupportable. While you can read the flaws with the initial IPC report in the FP article, to cite just one example, over 80% of the “daily kilocalorie requirement” in northern Gaza last April wasn’t counted by the IPC.
As Aimes wrote, the FRC report didn’t receive a fraction of the media coverage as the initial fatally flawed IPC report. Indeed, the reporter adds, “the famine storyline in Gaza is like the proverbial bell that cannot be unrung”.
Israel-Nazi Analogy
While it’s the height of antisemitic cruelty to compare modern Jews to the evil Nazi monsters who, eight decades ago, annihilated one out of every three Jews on the globe, the antisemitic ‘Israel is the new Nazi Germany’ candard has been part of the anti-Zionist playbook for decades, and represents one of the ways in which Israel haters fuel antisemitism in Britain. After all, if Zionism is seen as moral equivalent to Nazism, then British Jews (and all diaspora Jews), the overwhelming majority of whom are Zionists, are rendered beyond the moral pale.
Indeed, the tsunami of antisemitism in the UK, the US and in other Western countries since Oct. 7 began, appallingly, almost immediately after the mass murder, rape, torture and mutilation of Jews by Hamas, and is a direct result of the anti-Jewish rhetoric and imagery used by anti-Israel activists in street demos, on social media and in media outlets like the Guardian.
As we showed a time, the Guardian’s campaign to obfuscate Hamas’s pogrom by projecting the Islamist group’s savagery on the Jewish victims, began almost immediately after the massacre, publishing 11 pieces accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing or genocide between Oct. 14-27. This was a time, let’s remember, when authorities were still finding dead bodies in southern Israel – or, more often, the charred remains of what were once in-tact, living human beings.
Hamas Nazis
As Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society aptly observed, “the global media, the UN, and the NGO industry have engaged in a colossal act of wilful blindness” by covering “the war in Gaza with a grotesque, almost deliberate omission: Hamas, the terror group that started it, is treated as if it doesn’t exist”. The proscribed terror group that spent 20 years implementing a human shield policy by “building its army under Gaza’s hospitals, schools, and apartment blocks”, and launched their unprovoked war of aggression by carrying out the deadliest and most barbaric antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust, “vanishes from the narrative”.
Tellingly, the actions and decisions of Hamas, the group which could have prevented the suffering of Palestinian civilians by surrendering at any point during the war, is omitted from the Guardian columnist’s piece – consistent with a denial of Palestinian agency that is among the most egregious elements of anti-Israel media bias.
The only party that resembles the Nazis is Hamas, ideologically in terms of their fanaticism and annihilationist antisemitic worldview, and in practice by virtue of how, on Oct. 7, their bloodthirsty pogromists gleefully and sadistically “shot, blew up, hunted, tortured, raped, burned, and generally murdered in any horrible manner you could predict, and some that you might not”, men, women and children.
The Guardian has spent the last 19 months covering for this Jew-butchering, jihadist death cult, abusing Oct. 7th memory and publishing content fueling more antisemitism. The outlet is morally irredeemable.
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I’m always impressed when a commentator or the media generally compare Israel to the Nazis. It’s such an original, clever, insightful analysis — I long to meet the writer or writers to say, “How did you come up with such a brilliant comparison? It must have taken literally hours round the editorial table to arrive at such a devastating conclusion. In the face of such penetrating journalism the Israelis will have no choice but to surrender immediately!”