On June 7, 2026, far-left streamer Hasan Piker likened Israelis to Nazis and the Gaza conflict to the Holocaust. He wasn’t alone—prominent voices like Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald backed similar rhetoric. This comparison isn’t new. Figures like Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein have pushed it for years.But there’s a bitter irony here. As the old saying goes, people often accuse others of the very crimes they’re guilty of. In this case, the reverse is strikingly true: the Palestinian movement has a documented, decades-long history of alignment with Nazi ideology and antisemitism.
Roots in the 1930s
In the 1930s, Haj Amin al-Husseini—the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the era’s most influential Palestinian Arab leader—actively collaborated with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. He worked to halt Jewish immigration to Palestine, blocked rescue efforts during the Holocaust, and sought a Nazi-Arab alliance to eliminate Jews from the Middle East. He met personally with Hitler in 1941 and broadcast propaganda for the Nazis.
Today’s Echoes
That toxic legacy continues. Social media is filled with videos of Palestinians and their supporters giving Nazi salutes, chanting “Heil Hitler,” and calling to “gas the Jews.”
Hamas, the Muslim terror group that Palestinians elected to govern Gaza, explicitly calls in its original 1988 founding charter for the extermination of Jews, citing religious texts that envision Muslims killing Jews hiding behind trees and stones. Hamas has lived up to this hatred with relentless attacks on Jewish civilians, most brutally on October 7. Senior official Fathi Hammad has openly declared: “We must attack every Jew on the face of the earth.”
Modern Voices Repeating Nazi Rhetoric
This isn’t ancient history—it’s mainstream in pro-Palestinian circles today:
- Dan Bilzerian, a popular pro-Palestinian influencer who often accuses Israel of “genocide,” has called for the extermination of Jews, expressed support for Hitler, and blamed Jews for the world’s problems.
- Sarah Wilkinson, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist, dehumanized Jews in classic Nazi style: “The Israelis are not human. They have hands—they have faces but they’re not one of us. They are monsters.”
- Maureen Galindo, a pro-Palestinian Democratic candidate in Texas’s May 2026 primary, ranted against “Zionist billionaire Jews,” claimed Jews control Hollywood and the media, accused Israelis of trying to occupy America and commit genocide there, called them “Satan worshippers,” and demanded they be thrown into concentration camps and castrated.
- Moe Tkacik, a pro-Palestinian senior editor at the progressive magazine The American Prospect, has called for Israel to be nuked “to save the human race.”
- Hamid Dabashi, an Iranian Columbia University professor, described Israeli Jews as having “a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of [their] culture.”
Bottom Line
While far-Left activists and pro-Palestinian activists accuse Israelis of being Nazis and the Gaza conflict of being a “Holocaust,” they themselves traffic in the authentic language, symbols, and goals of Nazism: eliminationist Jew-hatred, dehumanization, calls for mass extermination, and admiration for Hitler. From the Grand Mufti’s alliance with Adolf Hitler in the 1940s, to Hamas’s founding charter that demands the murder of Jews, to today’s influencers, academics, and politicians openly calling to “gas the Jews,” nuke Israel, castrate “Zionist Jews,” or put them in concentration camps — the pattern is undeniable.
The real heirs to Nazi ideology aren’t the Jews defending themselves in Israel. They are the ones waving the swastika, chanting “Heil Hitler,” and dreaming of finishing what Hitler started.
Sources
X, Glenn Greenwald, TIME, Jewish Virtual Library, Israel Truth Network, Hamas charter, X, X, Israel Truth Network, X, Times of Israel, Brandeis Center
