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Wallace Shawn’s Grotesque Assault on Israel

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Most antisemites are content to compare Israel to the Nazis. Not Wallace Shawn, he of the high-pitched squeal and rebarbative face. He wants the world to know that the state of Israel is “demonically evil” and the Israelis are “worse than Nazis” because they “are proud of what they do,” whereas “Hitler had the decency” to try to hide his killing of Jews. (No, Hitler did not. History is not Wallace Shawn’s strong suit.) Has he forgotten how the war in Gaza started, with 6,000 “demonically evil” members of Hamas smashing into Israel, where they proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and kill 1,200 Israelis? Does he know about the babies who were decapitated? The adults who, before being killed, had their eyes gouged out and genitalia cut off?

More on Wallace Shawn’s grotesque assault on Israel can be found here: “Jewish Actor Wallace Shawn Calls Israel ‘Demonically Evil,’ in ‘Some Ways Worse’ Than Nazis for Gaza War,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, February 5, 2025:

Jewish actor Wallace Shawn, who is most famous for his roles in “Clueless,” the “Toy Story” franchise, and “The Princess Bride,” compared Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war to the war crimes committed by Nazis against Jews during World War II.

The New York-born actor and playwright, 81, said during an appearance on the podcast “The Katie Halper Show” on Monday that Israel is “doing evil just as great as what the Nazis did.”

Can Wallace Shawn really be unaware that the IDF makes colossal efforts to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza, by warning them away from sites and buildings are soon to be targeted? Does he know that the IDF, halfway through the war, had by March already dropped nine million leaflets, sent fifteen million text messages, and made sixteen million robocalls, all done in order to warn civilians in Gaza away from buildings soon to be hit, so that they would not be harmed?

Does he know that Hamas tries always and everywhere to maximize civilian casualties, even going to the extent of preventing civilians from escaping from the very areas that the IDF has warned them to leave? Is he aware that British Colonel Richard Kemp, a veteran of half-a-dozen military campaigns and the commander of British forces in Afghanistan, has described the IDF as “the most moral army in the world:” because of its elaborate warning system? Has he read the study of the Gaza war by West Point Professor of Urban Warfare John Spencer, who concluded that “Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history—above and beyond what international law requires.”

Does Wallace Shawn, the embarrassing son of the legendary editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn, not know any of this? Is he aware that Hamas’ stated goal — it’s in its charter, for all to read — is the destruction of the Jewish state and the expulsion or murder of all of its Jews?

The IDF invaded Gaza because it was determined to defeat the terror group Hamas, and to so devastate it that it would never again be able to commit such attacks. What should the IDF have done after those Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023? Tell us, Wallace Shawn. We’re all ears.

“The Israelis invaded someone else’s territory. They took people’s homes and they did many of the things that the Nazis did to the Jews,” he claimed while speaking to Halper, a Jewish comedian and author. “And now they’re really doing it. You can’t be more evil than what they’re doing.”

“They did many of the things the Nazis did to Jews.” Like what? Did the IDF round up people in Gaza and send them to “showers” where they would be murdered by inhaling Zyklon-B? Did the IDF use, like the Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing wagons? Did the IDF lock Gazans in railroad cars, where they would be suffocated? Did the IDF commit “medical experiments” in the manner of Dr. Mengele? Did they strip Gazans naked, and shoot them in the back of the head one-by-one — tens of thousands at a time, as the Nazis did at Babi Yar outside Kiev — so that they would topple, dead or dying, into vast open pits? Did the IDF inject phenol into the hearts of Gazans? Or inject highly concentrated solutions into their veins, using hydrogen perhydrol, ether, hydrogen peroxide, benzene, and Evipan? Did the IDF soldiers grab Gazan babies, and throw them up in the air, to be shot at in front of their mothers — the way the Nazis so enjoyed doing?

“And in some ways it’s worse, because they kind of boast about it,” Shawn added. “Hitler had the decency to try to keep it secret. For some reason, Hitler didn’t want people to know he was doing these things to the Jews. The Israelis are almost proud of it, and it’s demonically evil. You can’t be more evil. And anybody who doesn’t recognize that it’s evil, I can’t properly communicate with that person. That might be temporary insanity.”

What bespeaks moral idiocy is Shawn’s remark that “Hitler had the decency” to try to keep the mass murder of Jews a secret. It’s a nauseating choice of words. And not just nauseating, but flatly wrong. Hitler never hid from his subordinates in the Nazi Party— hundreds of thousands of them —his intentions to carry out the Endlösung, the Final Solution. The extermination camps were known to the Allies, who shamefully did not bomb the railroads that took Jews to those camps. It was only in the last months of the war that those directly involved — the SS men and other guards at the death camps — tried to hide the evidence of their handiwork by burning bodies in the camps’ crematoria.

The Israelis do not “boast” about killing civilians. They forthrightly explain that their intended targets are the members of Hamas, but that sometimes they cannot avoid civilian casualties despite their best efforts to warn civilians away from places about to be targeted. The Israelis are right to be proud — not “boastful” — of the bravery of their soldiers, who are defending the people of Israel against a monstrous enemy, an enemy about whom Wallace Shawn has nothing to say. And the Israelis express pride in the young people who showed up to defend their country and their people, and in the 300,000 older reservists too, who also appeared as one when called up. The Israelis have everything to be proud of, and nothing to be ashamed of, in the performance of their soldiers.

Comments

  1. Small wonder that throughout History, some of most rabid antisemites have been self-hating Jews.

    • he apparently is an 82 year old actor that has an institutionalized autistic sister since the 50s that has no TV, and by his IMDB profile is a high functioning Autistic person with poor social skills and no self-awareness that someone thinks should be a knowledgeable source of information.

        • And if not… they get to sell cars or insurance and other jobs where hollywood exiles those it does not agree with….

    • his father was born in 1906 and was a non practicing jew and writer/editor of the NEWYORKER for 53 years, he probably never had anything to do with Jewish life or culture due to his autism and family.

      • I know several autistic people. Despite lacking certain communication skills and the ability to pick up on social cues, they’re not hateful nor raging antisemitic trash. Stop being a complete putz by making excuses for this loathsome piece of crap.

        • PacosMojo,

          Yes, that is true about the vast majority of people on the autistic spectrum.

  5. Wallace Shawn – Leftist Hollywood Jew, the worst kind of Jew. Old age is catching up to the Wallace’ mind and mouth or is he speaking from his ass?

  6. I disagree with many of the comments above on Wallace Shawn as “the worst kind of Jew,” the “self-hating Jew” etcetera etceterum. Shawn’s views are monstrous but there is no need, nor would it be accurate, to make him the representative of a group.

    I don’t think he’s “self-hating” at all. He is quite proud of himself, sees himself as morally superior to those who fail to understand things as he does. Not a patch on his father who, by the way, Is treated as the genius domus at the New Yorker when some think the real genius domus was William Maxwell.

    • I totally agree Hugh.
      Thank you for clarifying that “self-hating Jew” garbage we see all too often in the comments on this site.

    • “Self-hating” is a misfire, but there are plenty of Jews who hate either their faith, or their co-religionists. Same is true of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists

      Only group where I have not seen it is muslims

      • infidel.
        Where’s your evidence for such an outlandish assertion?
        I’m sure there are some (you can always find “some”) but “plenty”?
        Get real.
        More importantly, why would it matter to you? As Hugh so appropriately points out there is no such “group” either of self-hating Jews or self-hating Christians.

      • Rarely

        That’s the only explanation for Jews who happen to be willing to let Israel be destroyed. Loyal Jews may call them “self hating”, but these just seem to be antisemitic Jews. Don’t assume that just b’cos they are Jews, they can’t be antisemitic

        Some names just off the top of my head – Stanley Cohen (former lawyer for both Hamas and Hizbullah), Bernie Sanders, Richard Stallman, Noam Chomsky, just to name a few

        • infidel
          So you found some Jews who don’t support Israel or are actually against it. Big deal.
          You don’t know what you are talking about.
          Not all Jews are Zionist. Some may even be anti-Israel. That may equate to anti-Semitic in your mind but it means nothing.
          I think those Jews who are anti-Israel are foolish but anti-Semitic? No.

        • Rarely

          Jews who are anti-Zionist are anti-Semitic. They’re not foolish, particularly if they live outside Israel, since the destruction of Israel won’t affect them in the short term

          What they are is evil! Just b”cos they themselves are fine as Jews living either observant or secular lives in either the Americas or Europe, they assume that nobody else needs an Israel and therefore, they are willing to throw their lot w/ those who seek to destroy it

          Yeah, they are very much antisemitic. One doesn’t have to support all of Israel’s policies: I certainly oppose their policy on Armenia/Azerbaijan as well as their mandatory Covid vaccinations

          But if one supports the destruction of Israel, one is destroying the one place in the world that persecuted Jews can flee too. Just b’cos Jews live relatively fine today in the US, Canada, Russia, and a whole host of other countries doesn’t mean that there are no countries where they are persecuted. So essentially, these anti-Zionists are enabling the persecution of those Jews, and therefore, fit the definition of antisemitism

        • infidel.
          There is a huge difference between not being a Zionist and being in favour of Israel’s destruction. A difference of opinion vis-a-vie Israel doesn’t mean one side must be anti-Semitic. Jews, like everyone else, have different opinions.
          I get the feeling that you don’t know anyone who’s Jewish except, perhaps in passing.

        • Rarely

          All the Jews I’ve known – all in previous jobs I had – were both pro Israel and Right leaning. Mainly Jews of Russian origin, and some Israelis

          There is a difference b/w not being a Zionist vs being anti-Zionist. My point above was that all the anti-Israel Jews are anti-Zionists. The people who think that despite now 70 years of evidence, that Israel should do things that would result in its own destruction

          I don’t conflate them w/ Jews who “don’t support” Israel, or are ambivalent about Israel b’cos they don’t live there and couldn’t care less

  7. Inconceivable!

    As wrong now as his character was in “The Princess Bride.”

  8. I see him as ugly, an idiot and a liar. He most likely looks at his face in his many mirrors and believes what the mirror said to the wicked witch before Snow White was born.

    And before this, I had never heard of him.

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