"‘If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you,’ the Israeli stand-up comedian Gil Kopatz posted. ‘It’s not genocide, it’s pesticide.’ According to a survey commissioned by Penn State, more than 80 per cent of Israeli Jews now support the expulsion of Gazans. Compassion for Palestinians is taboo except among a fringe of radical activists. When Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, posted a tweet celebrating a recent prisoner exchange, he was denounced for seeming to equate the predicament of jailed Palestinians and Jewish hostages: ‘Your presence pollutes the Knesset,’ a colleague told him."
> "‘If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you,’ the Israeli stand-up comedian Gil Kopatz posted. ‘It’s not genocide, it’s pesticide.’
I have such a hard time understanding how such statements can find an accepting audience in this day and age; in Israel of all places.
Replace "Israeli stand-up comedian" with "some Nazi propagandist in the 30s/40s" and "Gazans" with "Jews", and I'm sure it would be a perfectly accurate historical quote.
Fully agreed, this Gil Kopatz could as well write articles in Der Stürmer. The same rhetoric was used by the Nazis. For instance, they compared Jews to rats:
Caption: “When the vermin are dead, the German oak will flourish once more.” (December 1927)
This did not start on Oct 7. Bad faith nonsense. This argumentum ad Oct-7 got tired about a year ago. How long do you plan to keep using it? Two more years? Ten years? Twenty years?
Do you consider raids by the IDF in Palestinian villages in the middle of the night[0][1], taking people away without recourse, a hostage taking situation?
Because this is something done by the IDF for decades, I shared a house with a Israeli who was in the IDF's intelligence (not a common conscript), participated in such raids in 2010, got told by their officer that these actions were to keep Palestinians afraid, and this is what changed their whole view on the IDF's role in perpetuating the crisis between Israel and Palestine.
Their disenchantment led to the point they became an activist against the IDF in Israel, and had to move away because of threats, and constant harassment.
These raids are well-known, have been happening for ages, and are basically kidnappings perpetuated by the IDF to make Palestinians afraid, isn't that a kind of terrorism? Or doesn't it apply in this case for some reason that I'd love for you to explain?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n13/adam-shatz/the-world...
https://archive.ph/2025.07.19-181407/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...