God given fascism

​Israel has formally annexed another 22 areas of the West Bank in order to legitimise the creation of new settlements, which one of their regime’s ministers said was a ‘strategic’ decision to prevent the creation of a two-state solution. Given that most Western politicians trot out the line that they are ambitious for a two-state solution when are they going to tackle Israel’s crimes head-on? International law decrees all the settlements are illegal. It’s time all the ‘examples’ attached to the (actually interim) IHRA definition of anti-Semitism were dropped. Israel cannot claim to be amongst the ‘family’ of democracies. It may retain some definitionally sufficient institutions to qualify as a ’democracy’ but that’s a thin veneer for a modern form of fascism. Can fascism conceal itself under the cloak of democracy? Of course it can! New tricks abound in our savvy age—an age in which Goebbels would have thrived.   

A couple of hours after writing that I came across this on Labour List:

'NAZI: Attorney general Lord Hermer has likened Tory and Reform politicians who want to pull Britain out of international courts to Nazis. In a speech to the Royal United Services Institute, he said the claim that international law can be put aside when conditions change “is a claim that was made in the early 1930s by ‘realist’ jurists in Germany, most notably Carl Schmitt.”' (emphasis added)

​Need I say more?