Auschwitz Museum Decries Israeli Mayor's 'Sick' Call to 'Empty' Gaza

"The whole Gaza Strip needs to be empty. Flattened. Just like in Auschwitz," Metula Mayor David Azoulai said in a radio interview on Sunday, according toThe Times of Israel. "Let it be a museum for all the world to see what Israel can do. Let no one reside in the Gaza Strip for all the world to see, because October 7 was in a way a second Holocaust."
How blinkered do you have to be to see the Hamas attacks on October 7 as akin to the Holocaust, but not see that your own determination to wipe out the entire people of Gaza resembles the genocidal intent behind the Holocaust?
- I had family die in the work camps, die in the chambers, and die in the ghettos. If Gaza needs to become Auschwitz because you're trying to shoehorn the Holocaust into the conversation, then October 7th was the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, you sick fuck. This mayor either needs a history lesson, a reminder to respect his family who died senselessly for their heritage, or would even do best to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. These blood-thirsty assholes need to figure out how to goddamn listen when others are crying before they repeat history's worst atrocities.
  Here's a word I used to hear in Hebrew school and history lessons all the time: scapegoat. Look around you and try to identify who the scapegoat is. It ain't us this time... Also, read the fucking room. If many of your most ardent supporters are Nazis, you're probably doing a Nazi thing.
  
  I'm just reading this on Wikipedia:
  In 1939, German authorities began to concentrate Poland's population of over three million Jews into a number of extremely crowded ghettos located in large Polish cities. The largest of these, the Warsaw Ghetto, collected approximately 300,000–400,000 people into a densely packed, 3.3 km2 area of Warsaw. Thousands of Jews were killed by rampant disease and starvation under SS-und-Polizeiführer Odilo Globocnik and SS-Standartenführer Ludwig Hahn, even before the mass deportations from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp began.
  They crowded those people in a small area with a high population density and they started to die of disease and starvation. Gosh gee, why does that sound so familiar? 🫠
  
  Dude. I could be wrong, but I think the guy you're replying to is on your side. Are you raging at him or the mayor? Because it seems like the first
- And if the death of, by the latest count, 764 Israeli civilians is a Holocaust, what does that make the death of 12,000 Palestinian civilians?
  
  19000+ as of 4 days ago, and this is the minimum number since it only includes people Gazan hospitals physically counted.
  
  In the minds of those who see Palestinians as "untermenschen" - subhumans - their lives don't count the same as human lives. (An Israeli government official quite literally and openly in a press conference deemed Palestinians to be "human animals").
  This shit we're seeing is the violent expression of the most cold, cruel and extreme racism, all endorsed and even militarilly and diplomatically supported by the US (which is the ultimate hypocrisy from such loudly self-proclaimed defenders of "freedom").
- And to actually say you wanted to recreate the horrors of it. Like explicitly say that. That's a special level of non-self-awareness.
  
  Zionists are the new Nazis.
  Treat Zionism like you would treat Nazism.
  Treat Zionists like you would treat Nazis.
  Israel has killed more civilians in 2 months than Russia has killed in 2 years, just to put things into perspective.
- For some, "never again" means "never again let this happen to any People", to others, it means "never again let this happen to us". Unfortunately, it is much more common in the Israeli right to understand it the second way.
  
  the Isreali right
  The Israeli right: flatten the whole place, I want to salt the earth so they have nowhere to return to and they're destroyed forever.
  Israeli moderates: the IDF can have a little white phosphorous, as a treat
  
  By all indications Germans (at least their political elites and a large part of the population) seem to have learned "never again" as being "never again do this to Jews" rather than "never again do this to other human beings", hence they keep on giving unwavering support to Israel.
  The racism never ended, all that happenned is that an etnicity who were "one of them" became "one of us", hence the continued support of Israel and their actions: it's "those like us" doing it to "them", hence different moral limits if any apply than if it was "anybody vs those like us" (as it was in the Russian invasion of Ukraine were even a fraction done to Ukranians of what is being done to Palestinians led this very same German leadership to impose sanctions and break its long standing rules and start providing military help to the victims).
  If there is one (somewhat surprising) thing this situation in Gaza brough to light, is how Germany doesn't seem to have learned the absolute nature of the Evil of hyper-racist ultranationalist Fascism, instead it's all seen as relative, the Evil being not in the nature of the actions but in the specific etnicity of the Fascists and their victims.
- For such people the limits on to the harm done to "them" are entirelly different of the limits on the harm done to "us" - it's the ultimate two-weights-two-measures and you can see that splattered all over Israeli propaganda (starting by the whole "it ain't terrorism if done by us" that anchors most of the messaging).
  That said, these types being the full-blown german-style cold murderous ultra-racist Fascists, in their mind it's probably more "der ubermensch" vs "der untermensch" than "us" vs "them".
- I think it's fucking dumb how the US supports Israel.
  We only got attacked on 9/11 because of our support of Israel. Now we send them more support because they get attacked.
  What exactly does Israel do for the US? Seems like being the main motivation behind the 9/11 attacks really outweighs any benefits they may have.
  I don't see any benefits from supporting Israel, personally, as a United States citizen.
  
  The US doesn't have a great track record of "not supporting distopian regimes". They've either installed leaders with a dictatorial bent when the elected government wasn't doing what they wanted, or just supported their puppet in the area even though they did horrific things. Generally they think "the end justifies the means".
  Apart from WW2, I can't think of any major foreign operation that Americans were involved with that hasn't blown up in their face sooner or later.
  
  Because it's assumed Israel's detractors also want to commit genocide, just on the Jewish people, who have largely been the victims of such throughout history.
  Now the tables are turned and the world doesn't really know how to feel about it.
  
  I'm pretty sure that the hundreds of millions of dollars that George W Bush personally owed/owes to the Bin Laden family, that they loaned to him to prospect oil in Texas, which he somehow failed at, was a bigger personal motivator than just our support of Israel up to that point.
- Well how nice that this now makes it different 😊 /s
  
  He said that Palestinians should be transferred to the Palestinian camps in Lebanon first. Before Gaza is flattened.
  Corrections:
  He said that Palestinians should be ~~transferred~~ ethnically cleansed/forcefully displaced to the Palestinian ~~camps~~ ghettos (or maybe I don't even need to correct this one lol) in Lebanon first. Before ~~Gaza is flattened~~ their homes, memories, and livelihoods are forever destroyed.
  
  Then what will happen in Gaza when Palestinians will be gone ?

Zionists and Nazis have disturbing amount of similarities. The whole world knows it.
- The predecessors of Netanyahu's modern coalition actively cooperated with Nazi Germany so... yeah.
  Edit: Now that I looked it up the matter, while there's a lot of legitimate criticism the Havaara agreement is a lot more nuanced than I assumed.
  
  Interesting. Have a link to more info on that?
  
  Stfu disinformation. Read the wiki. These comments are so fucking dangerous in a world where people are denying the Holocaust ever happened and nobody knows the fucking difference between, Jews, Zionism, genocide, antisemitism, Hamas, Palestine, Israel.
  "The agreement enabled Jews fleeing persecution under the new Nazi regime to transfer some portion of their assets to British Mandatory Palestine."
  After they lost, they let them have some of their shit back and access to lower cost goods. This is not Zionist-Nazi collusion you irresponsible fucking cunt.

What one mayor said is only the tip of the iceberg.
You know you failed as a Jewish nation when the very museum dedicated as a reminder of your people's suffering and the holocaust which lead to the creation of your country is telling you you're a sick people.
I know there are many Israelis who are against what's happening and we shouldn't put everyone in the same basket, but man...
I really want the hostages to be returned safely and Hamas to take a hike, but it's hard to have any sympathy for Israel with how they acted towards Palestinians.
- I know there are many Israelis who are against what’s happening and we shouldn’t put everyone in the same basket, but man…
  I mean I see what you mean but Netanyahu is called the king of Israeli politics for a reason. They've consistently elected right wing genocidal maniacs.
- We should remember that it’s the hard right government of Israel that perpetuates this, not the average Israeli. They are heavily indoctrinated and propagandized. They are victims too.
  
  Is that what we should do for the Nazis? Have sympathy for them and the Nazi propaganda at the time? Mass killing is not ok period. Sympathy be damned.
  
  Yeah but. I mean. So were the Germans during WW2 under the Nazi regime. Is that really a good excuse?
  
  True, but they are the same people that keep voting in the far right. It's the same in many countries at the moment.nthe far right is not supported by all, but by enough to gain power.
  
  They're competent adults, if they're voting. Nothing but contempt for any of them.
  
  Nah, I have no sympathy simply due to the fact they chose to be a part of that so called society. It's not like somebody put a gun to their head and forced to move there.
- It's perfectly possible to be sympathetic to Jews as nationality and Israelis as citizens all while agreeing Israeli government and military are doing war crimes, despite the latter desperately trying to make you believe it's one and the same.

SMH, what is the world coming to when the Auschwitz museum is run by an antisemite.
- /s
- Maybe Congress should pass a bill condemning the Auschwitz museum for antisemitism?
- Huh? Where in this story does Piotr Cywiński (director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum) say anything bad about jews or Israel?
  He was even part of a counsel that supported the war.
  Some random-ass mayor of a town of 1,693 people is calling for full-blown genocide. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is simply stating that they do not agree in the slightest with those statements.
  
  The joke is that any criticism of Israel is labelled anti-semitic by the propagandists.
  
  It's a play on the recent revelations that many countries and organizations have adopted a definition of Anti-Semitism that includes criticism of the Israeli government.
  
  Bruh.
  
  Man, it must be really easy to lie to you
  
  They're just playing.

I know the asshat who made the comments was just a nobody hick but I'm ecstatic the museum decided to reply to it.
- If someone uses your name to justify cruelty, no matter how insignificant the person may be, it's always worth speaking up.
  People could also take the Museum's silence on the matter as affirmation.
  
  If someone uses your name to justify cruelty, no matter how insignificant the person may be, it’s always worth speaking up.
  It's going to take an eternity for God and his son to get caught up on this.

Ah, so that means the Auschwitz Museum is... checks notes anti-Semitic!
Makes sense.
- Correct ✅

Dude did not understand the assignment. Auschwitz wasn't made as a memorial. It was made by the Nazis and turned into a memorial later.
To create a new Auschwitz in Gaza as a demonstration of Israeli power is not to create a museum. Well it might be, but it won't be a museum to Israeli power anymore than Auschwitz is one to German power.

Here's what everyone should be worried about given this talk:
Israel has nuclear weapons, and the U.S. has worked hard to ensure opposing countries like Iran would not be able to have them.
And now Israel's government is under the thumb of a bunch of genocidal maniacs who don't give a shit about anything.
I'm thinking we all ought to invest in civil defense, or have some kind of plan B.
- Which is hilarious because for decades the party line has been to not allow the Iranians because they're not rational. They still aren't but neither is Israel.
  
  Israel has right extremists in its government but it's still a democracy with functioning justice and free elections, as opposed to Iran. Not very different from the USA, who also had governments destroying the lives of millions of people, but it's still a (flawed) democracy.
- He's a fucking nutjob, but if Putin and his boy in NK aren't pushing the button, I'd wager you don't need to spend all your energy on this facet of what's happening.
  
  I sincerely wish you were right, but those two are specifically why I'm worried.

"terrorism can never be a response to terrorism."
Great words, but israel is proving them false.
- Oh it can for sure, it just shouldn't

Wow is Israel the new Nazi state?
- Has been for decades.
- Israel did Lebensraum in 1949, so they've been a Nazi state since about that long ago.
- Just an extension.
  
  Yes this isn't old news to be either. What's the point of redirecting?
- Metula is a town of 1700 people. Probably not safe to assume that every random Israeli dildo that says something idiotic is speaking for the country.
  
  The key will be if anything happens to that person as a result. Will there be any repercussions for him? If not, it is likely a systematic issue in their culture.
  
  Its par for the course though
  https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/fighting-amalek-in-gaza-what-israelis-say-and-western-media-ignore/
  
  I'd wager the vast majority of people in the IDF have similar sentiments.
  Most of them are racist, sexist, right-wing scumbags.

Im done with this. I say we solomon this shit. If they can decide on who gets the baby or learn to share it, then we glass the whole area with nukes and nobody gets to live there.
- A man of action. Let’s do it.

- It's not so much a dislike of Israel as it is a dislike of a government hiding behind false accusations of racism in order to further their own shitty agenda.
  I am friends with Israeli jews, I am friends with Muslims, I would love to visit Russia someday as a tourist, and I am proud to live in the part of America where I currently reside. Thay said, I don't like the actions of the IDF, I don't like what Hamas stands for, I don't like the actions of the Russian government, I don't like the actions of the US Government.
  But if that's the route you want to take, you really don't like Palestine, huh?
- Pretty much any entity/person standing behind israel's actions right now is on the wrong side of humanity.

- Mate, even if it was the mayor of Upton Snodsbury in Worcestershire who had made this comment, I would be glad to see the Auschwitz Museum had responded to them. The fact it was a mayor in the country in question makes it even more relevant.
  Never again means never again. It means challenging genocide and ethnic cleansing every time, at every step along the road that leads to these outcomes - not just waiting until the trains are already on their way to the death camps before your raise your voice.
- I don't see how the fact that the town is not in Gaza makes the point invalid

yeah yeah idf bad...we all know. but why support gaza...a place with no gay marriage, hardly any women rights, patriachy...overall shit position. the main misunderstanding seems that just because idf is shit, there is absolutely no reason to support gaza. egypt and other muslim "friends" dont do it but the west off all is supposed to root for gaza?!? cant wrap my head around that type of thinking. and wasnt it the arab league that ON DAY ONE of existance of israel held a meeting and made the decision to kill them all? "fRoM zEh rIva2 zeH sEa" is retarded.
- This is your brain on identity politics.
  You can disagree with people's views on issues but defend their right to self determination and...idk, being against them being wiped out? Especially because Gaza is almost half children.
  
  so all palestinians are hamas?
  lets ask shani louk. ...oh, a woman that hamas and palestinians spat on before killing here. yeah...you go root for evil and i go burn a palestinian flag as you say they are all in on this.
  
  so all palestinians are hamas?
  lets ask shani louk. ...oh, a woman that hamas and palestinians spat on before killing here. yeah...you go root for evil and i go burn a palestinian flag as you say they are all in on this.
- It's not a team sport. And the day one war was because Israel declared both Independence and that Palestinians would leave or die. Which is what happens when extremists who have been committing acts of terror create a government.
  
  leave what exactly? a place governd by the UK, right? hamas is nothing but scum. rapists. they abuse the children as shields. i dont see your argument really.
- a place with no gay marriage, hardly any women rights, patriachy...overall shit position. the main misunderstanding seems that just because idf is shit, there is absolutely no reason to support gaza.
  Women are being oppressed, so let's wipe them all out, including the women?
  What the fuxk is wrong with you? No one is supporting Gaza or hamas, when they say there is disproportionate amount of civilian deaths happening in this war with International support.
  
  no. lets not get caught up by their propaganda. hamas are not the nice guys at all.

He said that Palestinians should be transferred ethnically cleansed/forcefully displaced to the Palestinian camps ghettos (or maybe I don't even need to correct this one lol) in Lebanon first. Before Gaza is flattened their homes, memories, and livelihoods are forever destroyed.