Jordan’s Queen Rania compares Israel to Nazi Germany in Munich speech
Queen Rania misquoted Israeli officials, accusing them of spreading hate speech against Palestinians in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
Queen Rania of Jordan compared Israel’s treatment of Gazans over the course the the Israel-Hamas war to Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jewish people while speaking to a crowd of thousands of youths in Munich, Germany on Tuesday.
Queen Rania addressed the opening ceremony of the One Young World Summit, which was attended by youths from over 190 nations, on the topic of hate speech and the Israel-Hamas war, the official Jordan News Agency confirmed.
The queen accused Israeli officials of spreading hate speech in the “aftermath of the October 7 attacks,” alleging that they operated “from a time-tested playbook” and tried to “convince the public [they were] dealing with beasts” in order to justify violence.
She reportedly referenced an infamous incident where then-defense minister Yoav Gallant called the Hamas terrorists involved in the October 7 attacks “animals,” which was then misquoted and used to accuse Israel of dehumanizing Palestinians.
Queen Rania compared Gallant’s use of the word “animals” to Nazi Germany’s description of Jewish people as “vermin.”
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, where Nazi Walther Rauff designed a killing van that fed exhaust fumes straight into the vehicle. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
‘Every atrocity is unique’
Attempting to justify the comparison, she acknowledged that “every atrocity is unique,” claiming that her statements are “not about weighing grief or comparing pain” but are “about affirming that every human life holds equal worth” and honoring the memory of the Holocaust rather than challenging it.
“We’ve witnessed, in real time, the raw reality of what hate looks like when it transforms from a feeling, to words, to action,” she told the crowd, adding that “to dismiss it as ‘just talk’ is to ignore how every genocide has begun: with words.”
She praised the global pro-Palestine, anti-Israel movement as “the largest, most organic grassroots movement in recent memory,” decrying individuals who choose not to speak out on the polarizing conflict as people who “can’t be bothered.”
During her speech, Queen Rania also accused Israel of continuing an “illegal occupation of Palestine,” despite the fact that the IDF withdrew to an agreed-upon Yellow Line following the October 13 implementation of a US-brokered ceasefire deal.
