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| (From Iran's FARS News, 2013) |
Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf:
The Jew today is the great agitator for the complete destruction of Germany. ...The Jewish train of thought in all this is clear. The Bolshevization of Germany ....is conceived only as a preliminary to the further extension of this Jewish tendency of world conquest. As often in history, Germany is the great pivot in the mighty struggle. If our people and our state become the victim of these bloodthirsty and avaricious Jewish tyrants of nations, the whole earth will sink into the snares of this octopus; if Germany frees herself from this embrace, this greatest of dangers to nations may be regarded as broken for the whole world.
The parallels between how Hitler described Jews and how Iran (and much of the Arab world) describes Israel are so obvious that those who deny that the latter is based on antisemitism is either fooling themselves or tacitly antisemitic themselves.
Here is a cartoon that was tweeted on X by Nasser Kanaani, spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry, which was promptly retweeted by the foreign ministry account itself.
His text sounds just like Hitler's.
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The motif of Jew as octopus goes back to the 19th century at least, but the Nazis used it with relish:
The Soviets used it too:
Right wing antisemites:
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Left wing antisemites like cartoonist Latuff:
And Arab antisemites:
The irony, of course, is that Iran is the one that has been tirelessly building its "axis of resistance" which it is constantly attempting to expand.
Israel is the only party that is chopping off the tentacles of the real octopus.
