Neve Gordon, a political scientist at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, said the political fallout underscored the significance of Golan's comments. "All camps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict want to be able to claim exclusive ownership of victimhood," he told Al Jazeera. "Golan's offence was to dare to identify Israelis as the oppressors. That's why [government politicians] are now furiously going after him."
Golan is a war hero, and for that reason he may - just - survive this incident. Though extremely uncommon, such comparisons have been made before by Israeli public figures, though never before by someone of Golan's standing. Shortly after the occupation began in 1967, the late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a renowned scientist and philosopher, began warning that Israel was in danger of succumbing to what he termed "Judeo-Nazism".
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