UCLA's Khaled Abou el Fadl Steps in it Again

Over the years, UCLA law professor Khaled Abou el Fadl has darkened the pages of this site with his insane defense of terrorists, especially those who terrorize Israel. El Fadl is originally from Kuwait but studied in the US, and after getting his degrees, managed to hang around. He has been embarrassing UCLA for years now, but they keep him around for some strange reason.

His latest rant comes in response to the Israeli-Hamas war where he condemns Israel with the strangest logic. He compares the way Israelis (and Americans and Europeans) supposedly talk about Palestinians with the way Germans talked about Jews back in the days of the Third Reich.

MEMRI TV has posted a video of El Fadl's latest outburst. One should not be shocked that he comes across as a crackpot. 

I am fully aware and well-educated on how the Nazis talked about Jews. But there are some differences.

First of all, German Jews were not trying to annihilate the German state.

German Jews were not carrying out terrorist attacks against Germans, either military or civilian.

German Jews were well assimilated into German society. Many had intermarried and many had even converted to Christianity. They had served in World War 1 and were loyal to Germany. (None of that  saved them from the Holocaust since the Nazis considered Jews as a separate race.)

German Jews did not hijack Lufthansa flights. They did not kidnap innocent people and hold them as ransom. They did not set off bombs in German cities. They did not strap on suicide vests and blow themselves up in crowded places. They did not rape women. They did not behead babies or place them in ovens after murdering their parents. They did not cheer and desecrate the dead bodies of Germans as they were dragged through the streets.

There was no such thing as Jewish terrorism in Germany.

Yes, Jews were dehumanized by the Nazis, just as Jews today are dehumanized by Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Look at what Palestinian schoolchildren are taught about Jews.

I could go on, but you get the point. German Jews (and European Jews for that matter) did nothing to incur the murderous, genocidal hate that Hitler whipped up against them.

Looking at it from a slightly different angle since El Fadl brings up Germany, does he know what happened to Germany after they invaded and occupied half of Poland, invaded and occupied France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and so many other countries? (Unlike "Palestine", those were actually countries occupied by Germany.) After they bombed Rotterdam and Coventry to the ground?  After they terrorized the local population and rounded up their Jews? After they declared war on the US and invaded the USSR? The Allies began bombing Germany's major cities, reducing them all to rubble and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the process. Unlike the Israeli military, the Allies did not warn civilians in cities like Berlin that their very apartment buildings were going to be hit (Of course, we didn't have the type of precision bombing that we possess today.) In World War II, we were fighting for our survival, and the aerial bombing was designed to break the will of the enemy and bring about a quicker end to the war. Similarly, Israel is fighting for its own survival, yet it takes every possible measure to limit collateral damage.

Another difference is this: As evil as the German government was, at least they had the "decency", if you will, to evacuate their children out of the cities, At least they had air raid shelters throughout their cities. What does Hamas do? They set up their fighters and their rocket launchers in schools, hospitals, mosques etc. They inhibit their own population from seeking shelter. In short, Hamas wants civilian deaths so they can trot out the international press and show them how "evil" Israel is.

Just what are Israelis, Americans, and Europeans supposed to say about Palestinians, especially after what they did on October 7?

El Fadl is typical of the Hamas apologists we have seen since October 7. Who among this crowd is condemning what Hamas did on October 7? Just what did they expect Israel to do in response? Where are the voices re-examining their support for the Palestinian cause (and Hamas) after October 7? Is this what they are supporting?

El Fadl and his crowd are making excuses for the worst episode of pure savagery since World War II.