Toshiyuki Mimaki said Gaza workers deserved a Nobel prize after his organisation was given the award

Israel has attacked a prominent survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing over a comparison he made between the blast and the current assault on Gaza.

Toshiyuki Mimaki, a leader of the Nihon Hidankyo organisation that represents survivors of the US attack, compared the two after the group was announced as the recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

“I thought for sure it would be the people working so hard in Gaza, as we’ve seen," he told reporters in Tokyo after the announcement. In Gaza, bleeding children are being held by their parents. It’s like in Japan 80 years ago.”

In response, Israel’s ambassador to Japan attacked the comparison as “outrageous and baseless”, and said such comparisons “distort history and dishonor the victims”.

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 months ago

      They have more in common with Nazis with their Lebensraum settler colonialism and apartheid system full of their riff on concentration camps.

      But, fun fact: Western interests, including Israel, sure do seem to conveniently benefit from Daesh attacks on those aligned with Palestine - at opportune moments. I’m just saying.

    • penquin@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I don’t know, man, they are doing the same shit that the Nazis did to them. It is a shame, they should be the ones who call for peace, not genocide innocent people.