Ben Gvir: 'Germany back to supporting Nazis 80 years after the Holocaust'
Ben Gvir's inflammatory comment comes despite Germany being one of Israel's strongest backers after the United States, and a key supplier of military and diplomatic support during its ongoing war on Gaza.
'Eighty years after the Holocaust, Germany is once again siding with the Nazis,' Ben Gvir claimed, in response to growing international momentum for Palestinian statehood. His statement aligns with recent remarks by the Israeli Knesset speaker at the United Nations, opposing a global diplomatic push led by Saudi Arabia and France.
80 שנה לשואה, וגרמניה חוזרת לתמוך בנאציזם — איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) July 31, 2025
That initiative culminated in a two-state solution conference in New York, where 16 countries signaled plans to jointly recognize the State of Palestine by September in a move to resolve the decades-long conflict.
Israeli officials have lashed out at recent efforts by France, the UK, Canada, and Germany to support Palestinian statehood, characterizing such moves as betrayal.
The backlash comes as Gaza faces a deepening humanitarian catastrophe. The Gaza Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that the number of Palestinians who have died from famine has reached 159, including 90 children, with two more deaths, one of them a child, recorded in the last 24 hours.
At the same time, internal Israeli reports reflect growing concern about shifting international sentiment.
According to the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel, American public and congressional support for Israel's military actions in Gaza is waning. While President Donald Trump continue to back Israel unconditionally, the long-term outlook appears fragile.
In parallel, Israel's Defense and Justice Ministers issued a joint statement reinforcing their long-standing goal of asserting Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank. 'We must not miss the opportunity available now to impose full sovereignty,' they declared, revealing that maps and policy frameworks have already been prepared to support the move.
In an apparent bid to curb the mounting diplomatic fallout, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to meet with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday evening, hoping to dissuade Berlin from joining what Israeli media has termed a "diplomatic tsunami" of recognition for a Palestinian state.
This latest escalation underscores growing global frustration with Israel's continued occupation and war in Gaza, and the deepening isolation of Israeli policy, one now increasingly seen as incompatible with international law and peace efforts.
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