Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply condemned criticism of Hitler by Palestinians on Holocaust Remembrance Day, denouncing it as a “heinous appropriation of Jewish grief” and “a shameless attempt to curry favour with gullible liberal Jews.”

“I am also disgusted by how many Palestinians are attributing the purported occupation of their land, and even my own political success, to actions originally undertaken by Hitler, as part of a transparently anti‑Semitic conspiracy to deny Israel, and me personally, our due,” Netanyahu declared during a press conference in Tel Aviv on 27 January 2026.

The Israeli Prime Minister announced that his government considered these actions to be acts of war and was preparing a response so devastating that, he claimed, it would force the Palestinians to abandon what he called their “transparent Hitler‑bashing facade.”