As the rockets continue to fly in Gaza, so to do the accusations.
Some 40 Holocaust survivors and more than 200 of their descendants have compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, which has in the past been highly critical of Israel, has taken out an ad in The New York Times. The statement refers to “Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza” and goes on to say, “Genocide begins with the silence of the world. Never again must mean never again for anyone.”
They’re not the only ones to make such a comparison. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Israel last month for what he said was a “genocide” of his people:
Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
His words were echoed by more than one world leader:
'Why does [the Israeli] government believe that the world will be insensitive to the macabre genocide which today is being perpetuated against the Palestinian people? Perhaps it is expected that the complicity of the US empire in this shameful massacre will be ignored?'
Bolivian president: Israel air strikes on Gaza is 'genocide'
Erdogan accuses Israel of seeking 'systematic genocide' in Gaza
Then there was this viral online petition in Italy demanding Israel get its own Nuremberg trial — a reference, of course, to the prosecution of Nazi war criminals.
Meanwhile, the conflict shows few signs of letting up. On Saturday, Israeli airstrikes reportedly destroyed a 12-floor apartment building in Gaza city — wounding 30. The target, according to Israeli media, was an operations center run by the militants:
Apartment block collapses in Gaza after Israeli strikes
According to U.N. estimates, more than 2,100 Palestinians have died in the conflict, including 500 children. On the Israeli side, 64 soldiers have died as well as four civilians.
