How is it possible that 30% of the Germans think that Israel is doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews, as Haaretz recently reported? It is hardly conceivable that they don't know about the concentration camps and the gas chambers, so they must be totally ignorant about the situation in the Middle East, no?
The notion that Jews have been transformed from victims into perpetrators, and that they are no better than their former executioners, is attractive because it relieves the Germans from their guilt without actually saying that the Holocaust didn't take place or that the Nazis were not so bad after all, and it has become increasingly mainstream. Read more at: http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000365.html
Also recommended reading, with many concrete examples and cartoons:
Holocaust Inversion:
The Portraying of Israel and Jews as Nazis
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