Ilhan Omar compares the boycott of Israel to boycott of Nazis and USSR

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And lastly wasn’t the Ba’ath party full name the Arab National Socialist Party , so the comparison did make more sense.

Haha what

Just checked full name was the : Arab Socialist Baʿth Party,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27ath_Party

Ba'ath meaning "renaissance" or "resurrection"), which is an ideology mixing Arab nationalist, pan-Arabism, Arab socialist, and anti-imperialist

I’ll just interject that while many third world “liberationist” ideologies did have socialistic leanings, saying that just because they have “socialist” in the name is a misnomer, like “democratic” or “patriot”. At the end of Jordan Gibran’s life, the Ba’athist Part(ies) shifted rightward into nationalistic authoritarians. I mean, when the party turns sectarian against other Arabs and other liberationist groups as we’ve seen in Iraq and Syria, they ceased being classically Ba’athist.

Also, a ton of ideologies being founded at this time took the name of socialism just to be edgy against the supposed rule of “Western Capitalism”.

The better way to illustrate similarities between Saddam and Hitler is their aggressive militarism, their nationalistic fervor, their expansionary designs on other countries (in Saddam’s case: Iran and Kuwait), their respective cults of personality, the sadistic, systemic cruelty and violence of their regimes, their willingness to commit acts of mass murder on civilian populations (in Saddam’s case: Iranians, Iraqi Kurds, and rebellious Iraqi Shia), their recklessness and delusions of grandeur, and the fact that Saddam openly admired Hitler (along with Mussolini, Stalin - you know, the Usual Suspects).

Aggressive militarism, yes. Nationalistic fervor, yes. Expansionary design, maybe (more below). Cult of personality, yes. Cruelty/violence, yes but more below.

Mass murder on assorted groups: One of these groups was a neighboring country exporting theocracy. One of these groups wanted to carve out its own country (I seem to remember a certain civil war in a country most of us live in). One of these groups wanted to turn the country into a theocracy. I can count on one hand the number of countries in the world today that would take a civilized approach in similar circumstances today (a few more would be a bit less brutal about it). What would the US do if there were some subgroup that wanted to practice some 'weird' practices against US law, impose the punishments against sins proscribed by their religion on all Americans, and was willing to use terrorism for its goals?

Openly admired hitler? sources? He did resemble a mini-Stalin - both of them were willing to use an iron hand and questionable means including collective punishment for what they felt was modernizing their country.