Oscar-winning Spanish actor assails Israeli ‘NAZIS’ over years-old video of cheering IDF snipers

Renowned Spanish actor Javier Bardem accuses the Israeli military of being “Nazis” in a post on social media, accompanied by a years-old video of an IDF sharpshooter shooting a Palestinian on the Gaza border as his fellow soldiers cheer.

The video drew international attention and outrage when it first circulated in 2018.

Bardem, in his post, does not acknowledge that the footage is at least seven years old, and it is unclear if he is aware of that.

“The IDF are NAZIS,” he writes on Instagram in both English and Spanish. “Do you remember Amon Göth in Schindler’s List? A sadistic SS officer who shot prisoners from his balcony purely for entertainment. He embodied the banality of evil and the impunity of cruelty within an oppressive military apparatus.”

“Today, that same logic of terror and dehumanization is what the IDF applies against the Palestinian people,” the Oscar-winning actor writes.

In the footage — apparently filmed through a scope or binoculars — soldiers can be heard discussing the shot, as the sniper trains his rifle on the suspect, who was several meters from the Gaza border security fence.

The suspect does not appear to be armed.

As the sharpshooter fires, one of the onlooking soldiers erupts into cheers.

“Whoa! What a video! YES! Son of a bitch. What a video! Look they’re running to evacuate him,” the photographer enthuses.

As a group of Palestinians can be seen carrying the injured man away, the photographer adds, “What a legendary video.”

Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report.