Democratic congressman from Georgia Hank Johnson evoked comparisons to the notorious Nazi war criminal Julius Streicher by comparing Israeli settlers to termites.

Streicher's anti-Semitic newspaper, Der Stürmer, often portrayed Jews as insects, rats, and other vermin.  Now Johnson has gone him one better.

Washington Free Beacon:

“There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fall in on yourself, there has been settlement activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an ever increasing rate to the point where it has become alarming,” Johnson said during an event sponsored by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an anti-Israel organization that galvanizes supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS.

“It has come to the point that occupation, with highways that cut through Palestinian land, with walls that go up, with the inability or the restriction, with the illegality of Palestinians being able to travel on those roads and those roads cutting off Palestinian neighborhoods from each other,” Johnson continued. “And then with the building of walls and the building of check points that restrict movement of Palestinians. We’ve gotten to the point where the thought of a Palestinian homeland gets further and further removed from reality.”

Johnson, who in 2010 voiced his fears that Guam would tip over and capsize if too many people resided on the island, said that “Jewish people” routinely steal land and property from Palestinians.

“You see one home after another being appropriated by Jewish people who come in to claim that land just because somebody did not spend the night there,” he said, referring to claims that Israeli settlers plot to seize Palestinian land. ‘“The home their [Palestinian] ancestors lived in for generations becomes an Israeli home and a flag goes up,” he said, adding, “the Palestinians are barred from flying flags in their own neighborhoods.”

Johnson went on to compare Lieberman to Trump as he lashed out against the Israeli government.

“The fact is the Israeli government, which is the most right-wing government ever to exist in the state of Israel in its history, the most right wing government, you got a guy like Trump who is now the minister of defense in Israel calling the shots on defense,” he said, adding that he is not the only member of Congress who holds these views.

Johnson is not one of the brightest bulbs in Congress.  In 2010, he wondered out loud at a committee hearing if the island of Guam would "capsize" if we sent too many troops.

Johnson repeats all the tired lies of Palestinian propagandists about "Zionist oppression."  The myths endure because ignoramuses like Johnson are conditioned to believe them.  Years of being bombarded with lies and half-truths while ignoring Palestinian terrorist attacks on innocents has created an anti-Semitic atmosphere – largely among liberal Democrats – that uses the Palestinians as an excuse to express their Jew-hatred.  "We're not anti-Semites; we're anti-Zionist" is a mantra endlessly repeated by Johnson and his ilk.

No one of any intelligence is buying it.