A prominent member of the Israeli government has demanded the resignation of Sky News anchor Belle Donati after she apparently compared Israel’s genocide in Gaza with the Nazi Holocaust.

Here’s his post on ‘X’, containing his letter to David Rhodes, Executive Chairman of Sky News:

Here’s the segment of Ms Donati’s interview with him to which Danon objected. In it, he was heard to suggest that Palestinians may “voluntarily” migrate to another country, outside Gaza, and she responded that such migration was voluntary in the same way that any migration of Jews under Nazi rule during the Holocaust may have been:

That’s the anti-Semitism to which Danon was referring – a legitimate comparison between the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in Gaza after Israel’s invasion and the forced removal of Jews from their homes in Germany and other countries invaded by the Nazis.

The parallel is not inappropriate; it makes sense. In fact, before Nazi Germany started murdering Jews, it encouraged them to leave the country. Many went to what was then known as British Mandate Palestine. The Israeli government simply started murdering Palestinians before suggesting their fellow Gazans should leave.

Fahad Ansari posted on ‘X’:

“If you don’t want Israeli policies to be compared to those of the Nazis, stop replicating them. It’s those who are promoting the current genocide in Gaza that need to be held to account, not the few courageous journalists who try to hold the perpetrators and propagandists to account.”

So Danon’s demand is unfair on a factual basis. It is also unfair on a political basis, as Novara Media‘s Aaron Bastani posted on ‘X’:

“An absolutely extraordinary intervention. It’s not for overseas political figures to determine legitimate politicians and journalists in this country. That’s something quite a lot of our establishment (in both politics & the media) appears to have forgotten (when it suits them).”

And what’s Sky News going to do?

Well, we all know what should happen, right?

To Sky News: please do the decent thing and give these Israeli bully-boys the finger.

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