Genocidal Authority: God, Hitler & Benjamin Netanyahu
Genocidal Authority: God, Hitler & Benjamin Netanyahu How divine command, racial supremacy, and security rhetoric turn the destruction of a people into righteous necessity Comparative moral and epistemic audit · scripture, genocide studies, Holocaust history, Gaza, authority, responsibility, and moral disengagement Andraž Đurič Version 1 · 2 September 2026 Abstract This essay compares three radically different objects: the God-character represented in the Hebrew Bible, Adolf Hitler as the central ideological and political authority of Nazi Germany, and Benjamin Netanyahu as the prime minister presiding over Israel's destruction of Gaza. The comparison is not an equation. One is a nonexistent literary-theological character, one is a dead dictator whose regime's genocide is established history, and one is a living head of government whose individual criminal liability has not been finally adjudicated. The cases differ...