When certain statements separated by nearly a century are placed side by side, a troubling continuity emerges. In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes: “The Jew is and remains the typical parasite… a ferment of decomposition.” (1)

In the 1920s-30s, no Jewish state existed. Hitler therefore targeted Jews as individuals and as a “race.”

Now that a Jewish state exists, Ali Khamenei declares: “The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that should be cut out and will be.” (2) The rhetoric has adapted: one no longer speaks of “the Jew,” but........

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