Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid condemned on Sunday remarks made by Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, who likened the conduct of opposition leader and political rival Benjamin Netanyahu to that of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Liberman spoke against the background of accusations made by a former activist in his Yisrael Beytenu party, Yossi Kamisa, who on September 1 began saying the minister offered him $100,000 two decades ago to assassinate the then-head of the Israel Police’s Investigations Branch.

Liberman denied the claim, accused Netanyahu of being behind it, and lodged a criminal complaint against Kamisa.

“Even when one faces the unending poison and incitement machine that erodes Israeli society, the Holocaust must stay outside of the dialogue,” Lapid tweeted. “Any remark that compares or uses the Holocaust only harms the memory of it, and our social unity.”... Read More: JNS