What, because Germany wasn't for Germans before that? As you can tell from my posts above I'm not much of a Zionist, but a movement aiming to create a national state for a people that doesn't already have one, is very different from nationalists aiming to expel or oppress minorities from the homeland they already have. And the large majority of Israelis have always been fine with having non-Jewish minorities in Israel.

I mean, I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find find points on which Israel has once done something resembling something Nazis did at some point - but if so, that would generally be because a lot of people have done such a thing at some point. And picking precisely the Nazis as a comparison is pretty damn hurtful, considering.

Of course I can't argue with that - but somehow it seems comparisons to the Holocaust do come up rather more often for Israel than for everyone else, despite or perhaps exactly because of the fact that that accusation is even more painful and insulting for them than for anyone else.

I don't think either you or Cannoli are getting what I - and I assume AgentApple - liked about the article, possibly because you're less familiar with the European left and its thinking. I don't think the author's intention was to complain, or not as much as you both suggest anyway, but rather to explain and describe the evolution in thinking on the European left. And that was certainly an important point in that regard.