Some will argue that the Nazi analogy is counterproductive, or that it isn't accurate. I can understand that. It is certainly possible to make ideological and practical distinctions between the Jewish fundamentalist settlers and their American supporters and the original Nazis. The Nazis didn't put such an emphasis on God and his commands. The settlers don't appeal so much to the science of race. But the similarities run much deeper. Both movements are racist, supremacist, totalitarian, anti-humanist, anti-democratic, and extremely violent. Both sanction expansion, conquest, ethnic cleansing, murder, repression and genocide. How on earth can comparing two movements with such glaring similarities be considered beyond the pale of acceptable speech, anti-Semitic, "disgusting," etc.? Why is the U.S. press, which twice a day lectures Saudi Arabia about Wahabism, almost silent about a murderous, totalitarian movement, with deep roots, bases, and funding in America itself?

Paulin, as we remember, also said the fundamentalist settlers from Brooklyn should be shot. Before we look into that, it should be noted that he was, at worst, recommending to serve them a helping of their own porridge. Certainly, people who consider genocide legitimate, organize pogroms and worship mass murderer Goldstein cannot seriously complain that someone wants to shoot them.