In a bizarre yet telling episode, the official US State Department website published an interview with Senator Marco Rubio, supposedly highlighting efforts to strengthen freedom of expression and combat censorship. However, controversy erupted when the interviewer turned out to be Michael Benz, a far-right figure who once publicly praised Adolf Hitler.
Benz, a Jewish-born extremist, has repeatedly pushed anti-Semitic theories, including claims of Jewish dominance in Western society and support for “white replacement” conspiracies. His praise for Hitler came during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, where he called Mein Kampf “full of respectable points”—a statement meant to criticise what he called the “white genocide.”
Ironically, this endorsement of Hitler now coexists with Rubio’s active suppression of criticism toward Israel. In the U.S. today—under a policy trajectory tied closely to Trump-era politics—praising Hitler is defended as free speech, while condemning Israel’s war on Gaza or showing solidarity with Palestinians can result in student expulsions, visa revocations, or even prosecution under anti-Semitism laws.
Rubio also lauded the U.S. Vice President’s speech in Munich lamenting Europe’s declining free speech, all while defending domestic crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism. Yet, as the article points out, no Western European democracy has gone as far as the U.S. in criminalising speech against Israel or targeting pro-Palestinian voices institutionally.
This contradiction mirrors historical American complicity with Nazi Germany, notably through U.S. banks and corporations that helped finance the Third Reich before WWII. As detailed in Antony Sutton’s book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, over 150 American firms invested in Nazi Germany—including Standard Oil and major U.S. banks—violating post-WWI agreements.
In today’s America, that legacy has resurfaced—only now, it’s cloaked in the language of “free speech.” And under Rubio’s hypocritical doctrine, it’s entirely acceptable to praise Hitler, but illegal to criticise Israeli war crimes or support the victims in Gaza.
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