Israel's policies are fucking repulsive, but they aren't the same as the Nazis. When Western politicians make calls for "restraint on both sides", we all know they're talking shit, because the level of suffering that Hamas has called doesn't begin to compare to the hundreds Israel's killed, and you have to suspect that anyone who would say that doesn't recognise Israel's victims as fully human. Right? So why can't people understand that that the hundreds Israel's killed in the current conflict (even taking into account the thousands more they've killed over the years) is not the same as the way the Nazis systematically exterminated millions in a very short period of time, and to say otherwise is to trivialise the Holocaust.
Comparing Israel to the Nazis also smacks of shit liberal politics that see "normal" states as being nice and peaceful, with mass killing being something that only a few exceptions like Israel and Germany do. The truth is that what Israel's doing now is exactly the same as what the founders of the US, Australia, and any number of other states did - so why aren't we seeing any "Israel = the US"slogans, eh?

We don't have a bad record on anti-semitism compared to many places in Europe but we need to stamp it out completely.Let's hope the police catch the perpetrator of this racially aggravated piece of vandalism.

Israel is not a race, neither were the Nazis, and I cannot see how comparing the two is racist.

Israeli realises it cannot exterminate the Palestinians quickly so it has to resort to a slow assault of attrition. Clearly 250 dead Palestinians versus 4 dead Israelis is not proportionate, but this statistic hides the tens of thousands of children and elderly who have died from malnutrition and disease due to the Israeli blockade.

So yes, the Israeli state can be compared with Nazis.

Support the action wholeheartedly, but the SA1 development as a case in point is a publicly funded development which the tax payers of Wales will have to fund clean up work on. Maybe you could adorn large private companies' buildings instead and at least let the shareholders shoulder the clean up costs!

Whatever the rights and wrongs of comparing Israel to the Nazis, if you look into the tactics of the pro-Israeli lobby in the Western world, you would quickly understand that maneouvring their opponents into making statements they can decry as anti-Semitic is their primary tactic. So if you really care about Gaza and the Palestinians DON'T INVOKE WW2 OR THE HOLOCAUST WHEN CRITICIZING ISRAEL!!!

IMO we are not yet at the point where we can call the Israelis hypocrites for founding a state based on the sympathy the Jewish people received after the holocaust, while forcing the natives of Palestine into concentration camps. The holocaust was too vast, too many orders of magnitude removed from what has happened in Palestine. To get a bit of perspective, the US has done more slaughtering in Iraq than the state of Israel has throughout its entire history.

But modern Israel creates a spectre, a frustrating symbol of the repudiation of honest human conduct and of ideas, by a people so associated with intellectual excellence and repression.. This is particularly threatening to the left, who see ideas and honesty as the solution to repression.

Not all Jews and not all Israelis are cynical... don't abuse them as a group because of the actions of their gangster capitalist leaders and representatives.

I think you're getting ahead of yourself historically.

Maybe if we compare the nazis policy viz-a-viz the warsaw ghetto? That make more sense?

I can understand your frustration, and it is wrong to compare a political party to a nation state, and yes the nazis did systematically exterminate millions, but only when they though they could get away with it.

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What is the problem with the people slagging this off? How exactly is it anti-semitic? I could vaguely see how a "star of david = swatiska full stop" logo could be interpreted as anti-Jewish but that isn't what is printed.

The article states the swastika is followed by question marks. So the graffiti is short hand for "Is the Israeli state acting like Nazis ?"
Is it anti-semitic to even question the morality of any state commiting massacres?

The graffiti message is perfectly valid. The graffiti itself though is pretty poor, I suggest you go out every night and spraypaint something until you improve your style. Ask the local graffiti kids for tips...