Comedian Roseanne Barr has claimed on her blog  that the Jewish soul is being tortured in Israel, and that Jewish people in that country will be destroyed because of recent attacks on Gaza.

Barr, who is Jewish,  also described Israel as a “Nazi” state in  her December 30 blog posting.

“The destruction of the jews in Israel has been assured with this inhuman attack on civilians in gaza,” Barr wrote. “Hamas is the street gangs—this is the equivalent to Los Angeles attacking and launching war on the people of watts to attempt to kill the bloods and the crips.”

In a December 20 blog posting, Barr accused Israel of engaging in ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Israel military officials have claimed that there is no humanitarian disaster in Gaza, and that the attacks were necessary because Hamas had been firing rockets into southern Israel for nearly seven years.

Vancouver critics of the Israeli government and military have  accused Israel of committing war crimes after  more than 400 deaths in Gaza and more than 1,000 injuries during a recent aerial-bombardment campaign.

On Saturday (January 3), there will be a protest at 1 p.m. at the Vancouver Art Gallery.