Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the phrase “Free Palestine” is disturbingly reminiscent of the Holocaust.
According to Netanyahu, “Free Palestine” is the modern-day equivalent of “Heil Hitler.”
Netanyahu was referring to the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.
The alleged murderer, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, shouted “Free, free Palestine!” and other familiar pro-Hamas slogans while shooting the innocent young couple at close range.
The Israeli PM argues that pro-Hamas “activists” are actually “neo-Nazis.”
In a post on X, Netanyahu said:
“A brutal terrorist shot in cold blood a young beautiful couple – Yaron Lischinsky and Sara Milgrim.
“Yaron had just bought an engagement ring for Sarah.
“He was planning to give it to her in Jerusalem next week.
“They were planning to start a new and happy life together.
“Well, that tragically did not happen.
“Yaron and Sarah weren’t the victims of a random crime.
“The terrorist who cruelly gunned them down did so for one reason and one reason alone – he wanted to kill Jews.
“And as he was taken away, he chanted, ‘Free Palestine!’
“This is exactly the same chant we heard on October 7th,” Netanyahu noted.
“On that day, thousands of terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza.
“They beheaded men. They raped women. They burned babies alive.
“They butchered 1,200 innocent people and took 251 innocent people hostage to the dungeons of Gaza.
“A short time afterwards, Chancellor Scholz of Germany visited Israel.
“And after he saw the horrors, he said to me, ‘These Hamas terrorists are exactly like the Nazis.’
“He was right,” Netanyahu asserted.
“And if they could get away with it, these Hamas terrorists would have slaughtered every last Jew on earth.
“For these neo-Nazis, ‘Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler.’
“They don’t want a Palestinian state,” he argued.
“They want to destroy the Jewish state.
“They want to annihilate the Jewish people, who have been in the Land of Israel for 3,500 years.”
WATCH:
Last night in Washington something horrific happened.
A brutal terrorist shot in cold blood a young beautiful couple – Yaron Lischinsky and Sara Milgrim. Yaron had just bought an engagement ring for Sarah. He was planning to give it to her in Jerusalem next week. They were… pic.twitter.com/FFdMwlacJ9
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) May 22, 2025
Netanyahu also used his statement to slam the leaders of France, the United Kingdom, and Canada for their insistence that Israel stop the war in Gaza before Hamas had been disarmed and removed from authority.
He said that if those leaders’ advice were to be followed, they would turn October 7 into a national independence day for Hamas instead of a national disgrace.
