Israeli film comparing Holocaust to occupation loses state funds

Comparing the Holocaust to the occupation of the West Bank is unacceptable. However he does have a point: the occupation is eating the soul of Israel. It ate the sould of all European countries during the colonial era and 50 years later, many of them have not yet fully recovered. The occupation of the West bank eats taxpayer's money, destroys Israel's image abroad, monopolizes young soldiers, and brings back nothing.

segal is saying it can be compared to the holocaust... and usually, the term "can be compared to" does NOT refer to something that's identical, but rather it suggests that there are certain elements that are similar; like ideologies, goals, and/or practices. otherwise the term "no different than" or "exactly like", would have been used. and the fact IS, that there ARE parallels that can be drawn between the two. there were many other aspects of the nazi agenda against the jewish people beside the camps and genocide; many of which began well before them.

Israel uses 100 to 1 in retaliation to arab resistence. Should the U.S. use the same 100 to 1 to retaliate for the USS LIBERTY ATTACK?

I have been to Auschwitz-Birkenau on two separate visits. My surname appears many times on the death roles of the German Nazi death camps. I have been to Israel. I have spent five weeks in the West Bank experiencing the occupation first hand. I believe I can speak with some credibility. Art can sometimes convey truth much more effectively than government news releases. Suppressing art is a last resort of a troubled government. Yet our shared Judaic heritage has always prized truth and justice.

I am a certified "left-wing nut case" and "Israel-basher". But on this one, I agree with the critics of the director. The Shoah was one of the worst crimes of all human history, maybe the worst. In six short years, the Nazis and their allies murdered two-thirds of Europe's Jews (one-third of the world's total) and unlike other genocides, Hitler's objective was to murder every Jew on the planet. Does that sound like what the Israelis are doing? It's bad enough what they are doing to the Palestinians without equating it with the Shoah. I don't say the Palestinians are not vulnerable to a genocide. Indeed, if Israel wanted to send them to the gas chambers, there is no military force on the planet that could stop them. But that is not what Israel has done. They have imposed an apartheid regime, not an exterminationist regime. There's a big difference between being dead and being alive. Once the state gives the money, though its censorship to try to cut it off.

Jenin was a refugee camp from which attacks were launched on Israel. Israel (as it should have) attacked the camp and killed 200 or so armed militants. Though widely reported as a massacre of civilians, no evidence was ever found that supported such a claim. The difference here my friend is that I can admit the truth while you still refuse to do so. To infer that every Gazan supports Hamas and is therfore a pseudo-combatant is ridiculous. To kill them based upon such an inference is immoral. I say again...what you post differs from Holocaust denial...but only in degree. Killing innocent Jews in Germany in 1945 was wrong...killing innocent Gazans in 2009 is just as wrong.

Bill, I do think around 300 so called civilians were killed...and around 800 or so known hamas fighters were killed...why do I call them "so called civilians"? maybe because they support hamas, allow hamas to use their homes to store weapons, allow hamas to use their children on rooftops, to allow hamas to use their mosques...that's why they are not REALLY civilians under the laws of warfare according to the geneva convention... do you remember jenin bill? if you do, why don't you tell us how the reporting of that operation went down....lets see what you 'think' you know bill. If you understand jenin, you will be able to better understand cast lead. (that's just a little hint for you my friend in oklahoma)

there were almost as many non-jews who perished during the holocaust...it does not belong just to jews.

show me the gas chambers in the territories! show me the mass graves! show me the starving people who look like living skeletons! i cannot see all this. and i'm sure not even segal can see this. his talk is real rubbish. and it's a mockery of those who died during the holocaust!

... Then you'd realize that Gaza is a stroll in the park. What keeps it from being a stroll in paradise by comparison is the manifestation of evil still being perpetrated by Hamas there. The term "Holocaust" is already taken and it's already oversaturated with its original, ghastly acts of murder by the Nazis, mostly against Jews. Go study to find the right words to describe the mostly self-inflicted wounds by the Palestinians and don't speak from ignorance on this sensitive topic.

Dear Mark,you would be appalled to see what can ooze from the mind of communist/palbrownosers dung stuffed heads...Their propaganda machine is almost as vile and low as the propaganda machine of dr goebbels

I hope you are not blind,only stupid.Remember one image is worth a thousand words.Just compare the pictures of the "poor and mistreated" pals,with the pictures of the inmates of the nazi camps.Where are the gaz chambers,where are the crematoriums???ONLY IN THE SCHYZOPHRENIC MIND OF WHOEVER DARES TO MAKE SUCH AN OUTRAGEROUS COMPARASON.iSRAEL SHOULD NOT ONLY CUT THE FOUNDING.ISRAEL SHOULD THROW THEM IN JAIL

It is an outrage that so dishonest a propaganda film was financed by the taxpayer.

Jon...when you sanitize the deaths of innocent civilians killed as a result of Cast Lead...it differs from Holocaust denials...BUT in degree only. Do you really believe that all those deaths were combatants only?

Separate the two. The Holocaust is not exclusively Jewish. Salaam/Shalom

LOL...and you wonder why that Polish Bishop, half of Europe, and the American Right and Left are fed up. Please keep talking, because the world needs to know the truth.

Comparing current events with The Holocaust is a direct result of Israeli politicians amongst others using The Holocaust to justify current Israeli actions. Netanyahu even invoked The Holocaust in the Knesset only last week to stifle legitimate criticism of his government. And your right the suffering of the Palestinians doesn't compare to the suffering of the Jewish people during the Shoah, but it is the misuse of the deads memory which is blurring the lines

Segel's gold teeth should be extracted, his skin to be used for lamp shade under the supervision of the resident Dr.Mengele. The same treatment is recommended for most of the posters here.

Settlers were removed from their illegal homes - and then compensated monetarily - felt perfectly free to compare their plight to the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust. Neither comparison is apt, but it seems that the treatment of Palestinians in the west bank is closer to the mark.

director Yonatan Segal is profoundly ignorant in the subject, including Israel history. Looks like he was educated in wahaby school, or he is possibly looking for EU recongnition and money.

300 so called 'civilians' were killed in cast lead. Civilians who let hamas use them and their houses, mosques, UN buildings, hospitals and ambulances as cover. How many jews were killed DAILY in nazi occupied europe? The comparison is totally wild and unsupportable. It boggels the mind to think that israelis, much less anyone, can really think that israel's "occupation" approaches anything close to the holocuast..this comparison is sickening.

"Waltzing with Bashir" was honest. Goldstone was honest. Now the honesty is getting to be too much. When a nation believes it has to censor art and personally attack its own righteous, it has abandoned a rich heritage. Truth and justice are no longer held in esteem.

does not apply to anyone but us!