Multiple far right Israeli ministers attended New York City’s Israel Day Parade on Sunday, including Israel’s genocidal finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Smotrich is ideologically not significantly different from a Nazi. Which means New York City just hosted a Nazi parade that was attended by thousands of people.
New York officials are acting shocked and appalled by Smotrich’s appearance at the march, but “I can’t believe there were Israeli officials at the Israel parade” is kind of a hard sell. This is just what supporting Israel looks like: standing shoulder to shoulder with genocidal extremists and making common cause with them. That’s what Israel is.
I’m sure we’ve all met someone who we instantly didn’t trust. And I’m sure we’ve all been right to at least some of those times. So while I’m not saying that evil is a physical trait…Smotrich looks evil. Every single picture of him.
I grew up Christian and he’s just…so close to how I pictured Satan. The first time I saw him, I practically gasped despite being for 20+ years removed from it. He’s nowhere near the worst in the Israeli government but he is the most evil-looking. To me, anyway.
And before I get any accusations, he doesn’t really have any of the antisemitic physical stereotypes. If I didn’t know him from his politics, I wouldn’t have even guessed he was Jewish.
[EDIT] JD Vance is another one but I thought the reason that I instantly didn’t like a guy who (at the time) was insulting Trump was because he looked “too similar” to a friend of mine.