Tausig explained that Netanyahu, accused before the International Criminal Court of war crimes and crimes against humanity, began from the very first moments of the attack to build what the writer described as a “political escape route” from the biggest security failure in Israel’s history.
He mentioned that Netanyahu rushed to compare the Al-Aqsa Flood attack to the “Holocaust,” considering what happened a “repetition of the Nazis’ crimes against the Jews,” in a move considered a violation of a fundamental sanctity in Israeli consciousness, where the Holocaust is considered a unique event that cannot be compared or repeated.
The writer indicated that Netanyahu, through his media machine known in Israel as the “poison machine,” broke this taboo and equated the crimes of Nazi Germany with Palestinian resistance operations, in what was considered a “slaughter of the sacred cow” in order to achieve political and personal gains.
According to the article, Netanyahu’s goal was clear: to evade responsibility for the security failure on October 7th, and to justify his war on Gaza by portraying the attack as a “new Holocaust,” a description that made the continuation of military operations seem like a moral obligation rather than a crime against humanity.
Tausig believes that this discourse helped Netanyahu prolong the war in order to protect his extremist government coalition, even at the expense of the lives of soldiers and prisoners, some of whom were killed in captivity or by Israeli fire.
The writer pointed out that the impact of this trend was not limited to the Israeli internal front, but that “breaking the taboo” unleashed a new wave of legitimacy for Holocaust denial in the West, especially within the American populist right, which began to see Israel as a political burden instead of a strategic ally.
He gave an example of this with the appearance of American right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson, who recently hosted the neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, in an interview that the writer described as a “moment of the rise of the new American Nazism.”
He added that the Israeli discourse, which collapsed morally, was also reflected in American think tanks such as the “Heritage Foundation,” which began to indirectly support public discussions about Holocaust denial, considering that this deviation would not have happened had Netanyahu and his supporters in the Israeli religious and national right not destroyed the idea of the “uniqueness of the Holocaust” and turned it into a tool for comparison and political marketing.
