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JAVIER Bardem, one of the leading Spanish actors of his generation, has provoked a storm of controversy after calling Israeli soldiers ‘Nazis’ in a post shared on social media.
The Academy Award-winning actress posted a clip on Instagram that showed a sniper of the Israeli Defence Forces shooting an unarmed Palestinian child while soldiers whoop and cheer in the background.
The clip was originally circulated in 2018 and provoked an international outcry at the time, with the IDF saying comments made by the soldiers – which included cries of ‘Wow!’, ‘What a video!’ and ‘Son of a bitch!’ – ‘do not correspond to the degree of restraint expected of IDF soldiers and will be dealt with accordingly by the commanders’.
Bardem’s caption for the video on Instagram read: “The IDF is Nazis.”
He continued: “Does anyone remember Amon Ghoth from Schindler’s List?” A sadistic SS official who shot prisoners out of his balcony as a form of entertainment. He was the embodiment of the banality and impunity of evil within an oppressive military system.
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The IDF is using the same logic today of terror and dehumanisation against the Palestinians.
While many users on social media were supportive of Bardem’s message, others accused him of ‘Holocaust intervention’, being ‘ignorant’ and ‘just another bigot’.
Earlier this week, a UN-backed food security body confirmed that famine was occurring in Gaza City, adding that more than 500,000 people in the Strip are facing ‘starvation, destitution and death’ – although the report has been rejected by Israel’s foreign ministry.
Since October 7, when Hamas militants killed over 1,200 Israelis, more than 53,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.
According to figures taken from a secret database of Israeli military intelligence, more than 83% were civilians.
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