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David Ben-Gurion called Ze'ev Jabotinsky 'Vladimir Hitler,' a journalist called Itamar Ben-Gvir a 'dirty Nazi,' and Yair Golan implied that the whole country was going Nazi. Now a settler and a law professor are keeping the quarrel going

David Ben-Gurion did it, so did Menachem Begin, journalist Amnon Dankner, poet Dahlia Ravikovitch and no shortage of ultra-Orthodox protesters. Now they've been joined by Alon Harel, a law professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They have all called someone a Nazi or compared someone to one – and set off a storm.