“From Yoga to Genocide: The Rise of Spiritual Fascism in Israel’s Gaza War”
Israeli Settler Rivka Laviér Blends Mysticism and Extremism to Justify Genocidal Calls Against Palestinians.
Watan-In one of the most extreme displays of Israeli incitement since the beginning of the Gaza war, settler Rivka Laviér delivered a Nazi-style speech masked in spiritual language, calling for the total extermination of Gaza’s population—from infants to the elderly—while using terms like “awareness,” “love,” and “spiritual empowerment” to market hatred and killing.
Laviér, an Israeli yoga instructor, rose to prominence after October 7, 2023, due to her ability to blend mystical/spiritual discourse with overtly Nazi themes. According to Haaretz, Laviér belongs to the “Nazi Yoga” movement—a group exploiting spiritual concepts to morally sanitize genocide.
She appeared in multiple video clips asserting that “the path to peace begins with the destruction of Gaza,” and openly called for “erasing Palestinians from existence” under the slogan of “ultimate love.” In one of the videos, she declared: “We are committed to revenge—from the infant to the elder.”
🛑ظهر رسائل تحريض إسرائيلية جديدة تعتمد على الروحانية النازية لقـ ـ ـتل كل من يتحرك في #غزة.. فما قصتها وما الذي تدعو إليه في القطاع؟👇 pic.twitter.com/0LxSkwcESc
— وطن. يغرد خارج السرب (@watanserb_news) May 21, 2025
This type of rhetoric reflects a transformation of the occupation from a colonial enterprise into a spiritual and ideological extermination project—one that justifies killing through deceptive psychological language and uses “meditative isolation” as a cover for mass starvation and indiscriminate bombing.
Even more alarming, Rivka’s discourse is not an isolated anomaly, but part of an orchestrated escalation led by Israeli military and political figures. In recent months, officials have called for flattening Gaza and forcibly displacing its population. Ministers in Netanyahu’s government have openly supported collective starvation and cutting off basic supplies to Gaza—acts defined as war crimes under international law.
Amid this open complicity between weapons, religion, and false spirituality, Gaza becomes a testing ground for an ethnic cleansing project wrapped in language of “healing and peace.” It’s essential to call things by their name: what is happening in Gaza is not merely war—it is a new Nazi chapter, written in yoga music and fake smiles.
