Good point, especially the last sentence. In my opinion, those who use this terminology are so full of hate that they can't differentiate anymore, and their hatred is eating them from the inside.

Shulamit Aloni

People don't take a sharp intake of breath anymore when they hear a Jew calling a Jew a Nazi. It's strength has been diluted since the Haredim started calling anything not dressed as a Haredi, a Nazi. Personally, I don’t like to hear it, and in secular neighbourhoods, we don’t. It’s only become a mainstream word among Haredim. Which in itself is absolutely unforgivable, as many Haredim died in the death camps. These people simply have no respect for anyone or anything – unless it’s a pile of bones or the words that come out of the mouth of a warped and twisted ‘rabbi’.

because the truth hurts

What can the haredim in Mea Shearim today say about Hitler himself,? They can he is a zionist.

Seculars do that, too. That's the way, it is :-/

the fact that charedim have no cariculum for the Holocaust subject is realy repulsing. and since many people over use it it's lost the meaning, the new curse word is lefty.

When that senior official slapped the Haredi MK for saying he was "worse than the Germans" he never should have lost his job. He should have been given a medal.

In the US this term was very very popular among people who hated Pres. Bush. I find it is used, around the world, mainly by Left wing groups. I've seen Israel compared with Nazi Germany during Leftist anti-Israeli marches. Why this term is so popular, I don't know, because it's overuse *has* caused it to lose the ability to shock. When I see a group A call group B Nazis, I find I wish group A would obtain a Thesaurus and use another word. The haredi protesters probably picked up the use of this word by the Leftist anti-Israel demonstrators in Israel. Since many haredi protesters don't like Israel either, it's logical they picked up the term and used it. The Israel haters, haredi or not, will most likely continue to use it because of the impact they know it still has on Jews. I think it's disgraceful for one Jew to call another a Nazi. The Jews that do have no shame.

Hyperbolic use of language isn't new, but the excessive and wildly exaggerated invocation of the Nazi appellation only serves to diminish the enormity of the crimes against the Jewish people and desecrates the names of the millions of Nazi victims that perished in the most inhumane and cruel way. It is even more disturbing that it is employed by a segment of the Jewish population whose primary profession is to delineate which actions constitute a "Hillul Hashem" (desecration of God's name) versus those which permit a "Kiddush Hashem" (sanctification of God's name). Hagai Segal may be correct when he suggests a deficiency in the Israeli education system is responsible for the unsophisticated rhetoric. However, one might also argue that a dissemination of hatred and judgmental-ism by various segments of the leadership is just as responsible for the cruel and infantile intolerance.

The use of the word Nazi has been over used world wide. It has lost any major negative meaning because its use has been so prolific. Seinfeld used it to describe a purveyor of soup in NYC. It is used to describe anyone who is harsh or with whom someone disagrees. Sadly by using this and similar terms with such abandon the actual memory of what Nazi's did is belittled. By turning Nazi into a mundane word it disrespects those who died at their hands. I hope this word will come again to mean evil incarnate and be used with respect for those who were murdered.

Would it not be a good idea for the education minister to launch a debating programa which could begin from the kindergarten to the higher classes.In life debating is as important if not more than many courses at school.This could avoid lots of agressivity.