Israel has attacked a prominent survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing over a comparison he made between the blast and the current assault on Gaza.

Toshiyuki Mimaki, a leader of the Nihon Hidankyo organisation that represents survivors of the US attack, compared the two after the group was announced as the recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

“I thought for sure it would be the people working so hard in Gaza, as we’ve seen," he told reporters in Tokyo after the announcement. In Gaza, bleeding children are being held by their parents. It’s like in Japan 80 years ago.”

In response, Israel’s ambassador to Japan attacked the comparison as “outrageous and baseless”, and said such comparisons “distort history and dishonor the victims”.

  • @[email protected]
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    94 hours ago

    Sadly, they have only the corpses of the hundreds of thousands of innocents they’ve murdered to console them in their outrage over a comment.

  • @Maultasche
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    75 hours ago

    What are they going to do? Serve the Japanese desserts in shoes again?

  • Cyborganism
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    838 hours ago

    Maybe don’t do a fucking Holocaust if you don’t want to be criticized for doing a Holocaust.

  • @Mighty
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    1409 hours ago

    Imagine saying “it dishonours the victims” to one of the actual victims

    • @actually
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      It keeps happening in history: people using horror suffered in the past to give cover to their own crimes. Attacking others in the name of their own holy dead.

      Sharing stories or pictures of a previous genocide to make others overlook a current genocide. Accusing others of being enemies to their religion and ethnicity when voices raise in protest.

      Over a hundred times in the world, in the last few thousand years. It’s just particularly galling to me to see this, now, in my name.

      • @SirSamuel
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        166 hours ago

        Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is “Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We’re-About-To-Commit-Today! And So On! Hurrah!

        • Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    338 hours ago

    What’s worse, committing genocide, or somebody correctly pointing out you’re committing genocide???1? really makes you think

  • @[email protected]
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    579 hours ago

    What doesn’t “anger” Israel nowadays? They’re going rampant killing people left and right. Literally fucking Nazis they are. What a shame, man.

    • @RizzRustbolt
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      88 hours ago

      They’re not “literal” Nazis…

      They’re ISIS.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 hours ago

        I don’t know, man, they are doing the same shit that the Nazis did to them. It is a shame, they should be the ones who call for peace, not genocide innocent people.

  • AtomicHotSauce
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    209 hours ago

    Who gives a shit if they’re mad? Genocidal maniacs don’t matter.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    108 hours ago

    At first I thought the comparison was sacrificing relevancy for Japan-centricity but now that I think about it what Israel is doing is exactly that: (genocidal levels of) terror bombing.