Netanyahu, Trump: On Gaza and the Iran war, the parallels with World War Two are clear

Netanyahu, Trump: On Gaza and the Iran war, the parallels with World War Two are clear Submitted by Joe Gill on Fri, 04/17/2026 - 12:11 Comparisons between the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Gaza genocide, and Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union are being made by scholars A picture of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on fire during a protest against the US-Israeli military action in Iran, near the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines, 9 April 2026 (AFP) On It has long been considered offensive and antisemitic to draw comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israel , but on the specific question of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its wars of expansion, including the war on Iran , the dam has broken. Norman Finkelstein, the eminent American Jewish scholar and son of Holocaust survivors, drew the direct comparison between Hitler’s war in the east and the war launched by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran on 28 February in a recent Middle East Eye interview . I have long thought the comparison is merited, for a number of reasons, beginning in 2023 with the start of the war on Gaza.