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Israeli minister's Nazi comparison to Nobel committee sparks outrage
Original: RE: https:// kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1174 11252909461068 90 years ago, Hitler and Goebbels said # Jews were behind the
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels would be 'applauding from hell' if the Nobel Peace Prize went to Navi Pillay, who has led UN investigations into Israel. Critics noted the claim echoes a real episode: in 1936 Hitler and Goebbels denounced the Nobel committee's peace prize to journalist Carl von Ossietzky as a Jewish plot. Social media users are highlighting the irony of the comparison.
Why now: Gideon Sa'ar's inflammatory Nazi comparison drew attention by paradoxically mirroring the Nazi leadership's own attacks on the Nobel committee in 1936.
Gideon Sa'arNavi PillayNobel Peace PrizeJoseph GoebbelsCarl von Ossietzky
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- RE: https:// kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1174 11252909461068 90 years ago, Hitler and Goebbels said # Jews were behind the Nobel Peace Prize for Carl von Ossietzky. This week, Israel's foreign minister said Goebbels would be applauding from hell the prize for Navi Pillay. Gideon… · oatmeal@kolektiva.social · 5
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