As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… it’s a duck.
If one were to ask, “What would a Nazi state look like in 2025?”, this Guardian article offers a chilling contemporary example — even if the word “Nazi” is never used. The features it documents — racial supremacism, state-enabled pogrom-like marches, theocratic nationalism, educational indoctrination, historical myth-making, and de facto apartheid — are all hallmarks of a fascist ethno-state.
Here’s a deeper analysis by ChatGPT as to why the Guardian article, perhaps unwittingly, presents Israel as undeniably a Nazi state:
1. State-Sanctioned Ethnic Supremacy and Ritualised Public Intimidation
The article describes:
- A state-funded, municipally promoted march celebrating the military conquest of an occupied city.
- Participants chanting “death to Arabs”, “may their villages burn”, and “Mohammed is dead”.
- The use of slogans like “without a Nakba there is no victory” — openly glorifying ethnic cleansing.
In a Nazi state, one expects state-enabled rituals that assert dominance over an ethnic or religious underclass. That’s what this march is. The Guardian notes that Palestinian shops were shuttered under police pressure (“Shut now, or I can’t protect you”), and residents were barricaded in their homes — an unmistakable climate of organised terror.
2. The Collapse of Civic Equality and the Fusion of Religion and Nationalism
The article reports that:
- Women and men march separately “for religious reasons”.
- Marchers wear school-branded T-shirts and symbols of a banned terrorist movement (Kach).
- The event is presided over by senior cabinet officials like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a known Jewish supremacist.
This reflects a theocratic ethno-nationalist regime, in which religion is not a private or communal matter but a state-aligned ideology, used to dominate public space and erase pluralism.
3. Historical Revisionism as a Tool of Ethnic Domination
As attorney Danny Seidemann observes, biblical mythology is “being weaponised” by state-backed settlers to justify the erasure of Palestinians. This mirrors how Nazi ideology used Teutonic myths and Volkisch history to legitimate expansionism and genocide.
Netanyahu’s decision to hold a cabinet meeting in Silwan — a Palestinian neighbourhood claimed as “biblical Jerusalem” — is an act of symbolic domination comparable to a Nazi rally in annexed Prague or Warsaw.
4. The Role of Education and Youth Indoctrination
The participation of Israeli high schools in organising student involvement shows how educational institutions are mobilised to inculcate ideology and recruit foot soldiers — a key feature of Nazi Germany’s youth policy.
5. Police Complicity and the Normalisation of Racial Violence
The article repeatedly highlights the impunity with which Jewish marchers harass, steal from, and threaten Palestinians, while Israeli police do little to intervene. This is institutionalised racial supremacy — where law enforcement exists not to protect all citizens, but to reinforce the ruling ethnic group’s power.
So we see that whether one uses the term “Nazi” or “Zionist” here, is partly rhetorical. But by function, the answer is unmistakable. Israel is a Nazi state.