crosspost from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2800502
It is true that the Fascists focussed on destroying Europe’s Jews, for obvious reasons, but for the Western Axis Europe was simply the minimum. If the Axis won the war, it’s reasonably possible that they would have taken their ambitions much further: the Fascists made so many references to a supposed global Jewish conspiracy that providing citations is unnecessary, but here is an example from Paul Hanebrink’s A Specter Haunting Europe, pages 84–5:
Jewish Bolsheviks were bloodstained terrorists. […] And they were deceitful enemies on a mission to impose Jewish rule over the world. Hitler believed it was the German people’s historic calling to protect the world from Judeo-Bolshevik evil. German annihilation would leave the entire world helpless before this great enemy.
As he wrote in Mein Kampf: “If, with the help of his Marxist creed, the Jew is victorious over the other peoples of the world, his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity and this planet will, as it did thousands of years ago, move through the ether devoid of men.”2
Holocaust education sadly tends to be very Eurocentric. This isn’t entirely unjustified (again, for obvious reasons), but it’s misled otherwise well informed people into conclusions like ‘Fascism was just colonialism directed at other white people’, which is an oversimplification at best. In reality, Jews from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Libya, and likely elsewhere in Afrasia were unsafe from Fascist antisemitism.
Unsurprisingly, when somebody called this antisocialist out on her bullshit, she moved the goalposts:
The Nazis did not have a global presence. Islamofascism does, which is why Hezbollah was able to execute terror attacks against Jews in Argentina, for example.
Now, I don’t know if that claim about Hezbollah is true, but it is worth noting that Argentinian neofascists regularly assaulted and tormented Jews. It would indeed be an exaggeration to claim that the Third Reich had a global presence, but it had more than a few sympathizers in, for example, North America and El Salvador; there were Axis sympathizers on every continent during the early 1940s.
Oh, and Hamas’s supposed antisemitism? Nowhere to be found.
I wonder if there would be so much nazi apologia without the Ukraine Russia war priming the pump. It has been a thing among Zionists for a while, but it is getting egregious when you have Israeli ministers saying that Hamas are currently worse than the Nazis. Not even a hypothetical of what they could do, but comparing them at this moment.
This is from an Epoch Times columnist, that’s the far right agitprop rag funded by Falun Gong. You can bet your ass she’s been a dyed in the wool islamophobic racist for ages, has done nazi apologia long before the Ukraine war and you can also take it as a given she’s a zionist because it gets the Jews out of her country.
There has always been an undercurrent of Cold War types who whispered “We should have sided with the Germans in '39” to each other. I would say the collapse of the USSR has created a kind-of pro-Nazi silence, as we haven’t had a Slavic boogeyman hiding under everyone’s bed for the last 30 years. But now that Russia is the bad guy again, the idea of pan-European fascism is coming back into vogue.
“Worse than the Nazis” is just table stakes in the modern discourse. Bush Jr and Barack Obama were worse than the Nazis. Antifa are worse than the Nazis. The Iranians are worse than Nazis. Chicago gangs are worse than Nazis. Silicon Valley CEOs are worse than Nazis. If you’re not worse than a Nazi, are you even worth mentioning?
Of course Israeli’s top PR flaks are going to compare their current national enemy to Nazis. Qatar, Lebanon, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, French civil protesters, American college students, Brooklyn podcasters - they’re all Nazis. And as a Philadelphia ex-pat with an Ivy League Diploma, I believe my Jewish credentials are unimpeachable on the subject. So don’t even try arguing, or you’re a Nazi too.