according to
https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
is by definition antisemetic.
https://sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au/news/kapos/May 20, 2021
Kapos: collaborators, perpetrators or victims?
By Emeritus Professor Konrad Kwiet, Resident Historian
Jewish Kapos played a pivotal role in the history of the Holocaust. Imprisoned in concentration camps, Kapos were enemies and victims of the Nazis; they were Jewish inmates who were forced by the Nazis to serve as “stand-in” guards. In effect, being a Kapo blurred the lines between collaborator, perpetrator and victim.
After the war
Upon liberation a few Jewish Kapos were attacked, some even killed by survivors. Other revenge-killings were carried out, mostly by former partisan fighters. They targeted Jewish Council members, Jewish policemen and Gestapo agents. In Displaced Persons camps and Jewish communities ‘Honour Courts’ were set up to investigate and pass judgement on these collaborators. A handful of Kapos were sentenced in post-war trials.
The word Kapo haunted survivors, and continues to today. The word was commonly used as a slur or as an insult. Wherever survivors rebuilt their shattered lives, some blamed others of having been a Kapo. Shocked and deeply hurt, a few went to court to obtain a writ preventing the dissemination of the accusation.
In 1950, after the birth of the Jewish State, the Israeli Parliament passed the Nazi and Nazi Collaborator Punishment Law (NNCPL). It enshrined not only the charges of ‘war crimes’ and ‘crimes against humanity’ but also a new legal code: ‘crimes against the Jewish people’. Over a period of two decades, 40 trials were conducted in the district court of Tel Aviv and the Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Two thirds of the accused were convicted, sent to jail from ten days up to six and a half years. One death penalty was handed down, but was rapidly overturned. Most of the trial records have been placed under strict lock and key, sealed for a period of 70 years. In the wake of the highly controversial Kapo trials, especially against the backdrop of the Eichmann tribunal, the view on Kapos shifted. Initially seen only as evil collaborators, traitors and co-perpetrators, they are now also viewed as victims of Nazi terror.
