Masha Gessen in a New Yorker [14] essay draws a parallel [15] between the Warsaw Ghetto [16] in Nazi-occupied Poland and the Gaza Strip, where Israel's long siege is now escalating to genocide [17]. Some Israeli military tactics in Gaza mirror those of the Nazis [18] in Warsaw. Yet, while some voices [19] on the ostensible "left" go so far as to glorify Hamas [20], Israel's online partisans are drawing a parallel [21] that reverses the roles, depicting Hamas as the new Nazis. In a case of paradoxical fascistic pseudo-anti-fascism [22], the genocidal rhetoric [23] of figures such as hardline Israeli cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich [24] dehumanizes the victims by portraying all Gazans as Nazis [25]. In Episode 223 [26] of the CounterVortex podcast [27], Bill Weinberg turns to the words of Leon Trotsky [28] and Albert Camus [29] to make sense of the seeming contradiction.
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