Published on: September 22, 2025 3:23 AM

It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing in Gaza to what the Nazis did to the Jews. Because how can we not? Because we have things like ghettos, we have things like starvation, we have things like concentration camps, we have things like the systemic planned extermination of people. Palestinians are killed while seeking food at distribution sites. They have endured 710 days of absolute horror with 65,000 dead out of which 75% are women and children. 1,581 is the number of health workers, and 252 is the number of journalists killed in Gaza. 346 is the number of UN staff killed in Gaza. Hundreds, including children, are shot while trying to access food. Homes, shelters, hospitals, schools, mosques continue to be destroyed. Over 85 percent of Gaza lies in ruin.

Israelis have dehumanised Palestinians. They have proclaimed that the entire Palestinian nation was responsible for the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.

To Gazans, death is cheaper. For Gazans, nowhere is safe and they have vowed to stay in their homes. Behind every statistic is a life, a story cut short, a family broken. Bibi Netanyahu and his right-wing, deeply Zionist, anti-Muslim government have no respect and regard for international law, or for the image hit that its only benefactor, the US, gets internationally and domestically from their rogue behaviour. Israelis have dehumanised Palestinians. They have proclaimed that the entire Palestinian nation was responsible for the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Palestinian martyrs are not faceless figures. They are fathers who will not return, mothers who will not hold their children and classrooms where empty desks wait for voices that will never come back.

The Israeli leadership’s words that “we are fighting human animals” are matched........

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