You, Jillian Segal, have attempted to conflate criticism of the appalling behaviour of Israel in Gaza and now Lebanon and Iran, with antisemitism. This, I presume, is a desperate ploy to try to assuage your guilt at these atrocities, or to consolidate your belief that Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranians are somehow subhuman. This belief is not unlike that of the nazis in the 1930s, who believed Slavs and others were untermenschen, and it has led to a similar murderous result.
In Gaza, Israel has murdered more than 70,000 Palestinians (a number the Israeli Defence Force accepts), and most experts agree that this is likely a gross underestimate. It is estimated that 56% of these deaths have been women, children and the elderly1,2.
On top of killing people indiscriminately by using missiles and bombs on residential areas, Israeli snipers have been shooting men, women and even young children as they attempt to get food and water. This of course has been denied by the IDF3. But there are numerous investigations and reports from foreign doctors, based on injuries of children brought to their hospitals, which demonstrate that children have been targeted specifically because a large proportion of them have bullet wounds to the head and chest, not something that would be expected from random injuries4,5.
Israel has also blocked humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. This includes medical supplies, as well as food. Using starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime, and a crime against humanity, and it is invariably children who suffer the most6.
The IDF has also targeted health workers, with one case demonstrating the depravity of the IDF. Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defence and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March, 2025, when they were shot dead at close range, and then buried in the sand by a bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles7.
There is also the case of the aid workers who came to the aid of the little girl, Hind Rajab, who was at the time the only one of her family left alive in the bullet-riddled family car. When the emergency services turned up to save her, they were all killed too8.
The IDF has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began documentation of such crimes in 1992. In 2025, Israel was responsible for the killing of 68% of all journalists killed globally, and most of those were in Gaza9. This is still happening and has expanded to Lebanon, with the targeted killing of three journalists in Jezzine a few days ago10.
The IDF has also targeted hospitals, with 36 of them being targeted in Gaza. The IDF has destroyed the al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza, killing hundreds in the process. Dr Hussam Abu Safia was arrested by the IDF when he refused to abandon the hospital of which he was director, the Kamal Adwan Hospital, in which 20 people were killed and 240 arrested. Safia is still imprisoned and there are fears for his health. The IDF laid siege to the Indonesia Hospital for days, leaving the hospital in ruins with many dead11.
If you can look upon the death and suffering of the Palestinians with no emotion, then you are just like those pitiless monsters who murdered so many of your co-religionists during the holocaust.
I expect many people who have any understanding of history, particularly that around the rise of the Nazis and their programme of extermination of European Jews, will have heard of the extermination camps or death camps. These were Belzec, Chełmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau which were built by the Nazis in occupied Poland. In these camps several million Jews and others were murdered12. These camps represent the worst inhumanity imaginable. Now, to them we can add the appalling inhumanity being inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza, with some residents of the nation perpetrating this crime, Israel, probably being the descendants of the few survivors of the death camps listed above.
How you can look at the many instances of mutilated or crippled Palestinian children and babies and feel nothing but contempt or hatred is something that I will never understand.
The nation you so fervently support has become synonymous with depravity, a synonymy which will live long in history, alongside that of Nazi Germany.
Sources
- https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s239.full
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/gaza-death-toll-higher-than-reported-lancet-study
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/14/foreign-doctors-say-israel-systematically-targeting-gazas-children-report
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orR7H8GnhCY
- https://www.amnesty.org.au/israels-blockage-of-aid-into-gaza-is-a-crime-against-humanity-and-violation-of-international-law/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/02/evidence-execution-style-killings-palestinian-workers-israeli-forces-doctor-says
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/gaza-killing-hind-rajab-and-her-family-war-crime-too-many-warn-experts
- https://cpj.org/special-reports/record-129-press-members-killed-in-2025-israel-responsible-for-2-of-3-of-deaths/#:~:text=The%20Israel%20Defense%20Forces%20(IDF,killings%20—%20to%2039%20in%202025.
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/04/lebanon-un-experts-call-international-independent-investigation-israels
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/timeline-israels-attacks-on-hospitals-throughout-its-war-on-gaza
- https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/the-holocaust/the-camps/extermination-camps/
