‘The parallels with what went on in the 1930s in Germany are so crushingly obvious,’ he told American magazine Counter Punch last week.

‘There were many people that pretended that the oppression of the Jews was not going on. From 1933 until 1946. So this is not a new scenario. Except that this time, it’s the Palestinian people being murdered.’

He claimed Palestinians are regarded as ‘sub-human’, and branded the Israeli rabbinate ‘bizarre’.