Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub last week called Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett a "Nazi, like Goebbels," accusing him of "giving the order" to kill Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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"[Israeli] prime minister - that Goebbels, that Nazi, that fascist - said yesterday: 'Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) wants to tarnish our image, and I stand behind my soldiers.' He gave the order (to kill journalist Shireen Abu Akleh). He bears the responsibility," Rajoub, the secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, told Al-Jazeera.
Senior Fatah Official Jibril Rajoub: Israeli PM Bennett Is a Fascist Nazi Like Goebbels, Gave the Order to Kill Al-Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh #palestinians #ShireenAbuAkleh #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/i2Iwv6vZUb
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 15, 2022
Additionally, he compared the war in Ukraine to the death of the reporter by indirectly referring to Russia's claims of fighting neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
"What is happening in Ukraine – you see how they [Russia] deal with it, while here, we have neo-Nazis who do those things," he said.
It is not the first time that Jibril Rajoub compared the Israeli government's actions with the Holocaust.
Senior Fatah Official Jibril Rajoub: There Is an "Israeli Auschwitz" In Every Palestinian City; We Were Not Invited to the Warsaw Summit pic.twitter.com/mTTOElah8d
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) February 14, 2019
In 2019, he claimed that the "goal" of the Israeli government was to "remind us of the Holocaust and Auschwitz."
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"In every city in Palestine, from Rafah to Jenin, there is an Israeli Auschwitz for the massacre of Palestinians," he said.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
