The Irony of Israel-Nazi Comparisons on College Campuses
By Aidan Segal, 2020–2021 CAMERA Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
On a Spring day in 2018 during the March of Return riots, Palestinians at the Gaza border flew a swastika-emblazoned kite carrying a Molotov cocktail into Israel. From the black smoke of burning tires arose another swastika, only this time interposed between two Palestinian flags. (Was it mere coincidence that this occurred on Adolf Hitler’s birthday?) In this context of Palestinian “return,” the kite is a prolific symbol; for example, advertising for National Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) 2018 conference at UCLA featured an image of a bear flying a kite. That SJP adopted this imagery for the conference’s logo — as if it were somehow a child-like symbol of peaceful protest — demonstrates the organization’s willingness to gloss over the arson that Palestinian terrorists have employed with kites.
In any case, the genocidal imagery that accompanied the rioters in Gaza has a sordid history that many anti-Zionist activists conveniently forget — one that some Palestinians embrace entirely.
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