Ben Gvir claps back at Vance on Iran: Fight back against ‘the Nazis of the 21st century’

Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, responds to US Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of him, telling Vance to fight Iran as the US fought Nazi Germany in World War II.

In a New York Times interview published earlier today, Vance called out Ben Gvir and far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for criticizing the US-Iran MOU, saying that “you’ve seen people in [Israel’s] system, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who’ve attacked the deal. And I guess my response to them would be: What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of nine million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”

In a post on X in English addressed to Vance, Ben Gvir responds, “This is the proposal… ​To deal with the Nazis of the 21st century, just as the United States dealt with the Nazis of the 20th century.”

This is the proposal, @JDVance:

​To deal with the Nazis of the 21st century, just as the United States dealt with the Nazis of the 20th century. pic.twitter.com/kv0wbRa9gi

— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) June 18, 2026