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the road from Durban..."
"'In a way, don't they dominate?' said Hala Sarhan, Dream TV's vice president and feisty personality on the air. 'Of course, what we read from the 'Protocols,' it says it's a kind of conspiracy. They want to control; they want to dominate. I represent everybody in the street. We will see whether this happened throughout history or not.'" (Daniel J. Wakin)
News and commentary on anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli bias.
Part 1: 2001/09/12 - 2001/12/28
Part 2: 2002/01/04 - 2002/04/29
Part 3: 2002/05/02 - 2002/06/29
Part 4: 2002/07/04 - 2002/08/29
Part 5: 2002/09/05 - 2002/11/25
Part 6: 2002/12/02 -
November 2002
"Arab Muslim Anti-Semitism" (Andrew G. Bostom, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/11/25)
"Editors of Egyptian Government Papers Hail the Recent Suicide Bombing in a Jerusalem Neighborhood" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 442, 2002/11/24)
"Campus Anti-Semitism Watch" (Andrew Sullivan, andrewsullivan.com, 2002/11/21)
"Anti-Semitic TV Star Vows More Shows" (Maggie Michael, AP/Yahoo! News, 2002/11/20)
"Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series 'Knight Without a Horse' - Part II" (MEMRI, Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 113, 2002/11/20)
"A Last Stand by the Jews in Egypt" (David Lamb, Los Angeles Times, 2002/11/19)
"Egypt TV series 'needs anti-Jew warning'" (Magdi Abdelhadi, BBC News, 2002/11/19)
"Israel in the cross hairs" (Douglas Davis, The Spectator, from the 2002/11/16 issue)
"First Appearance of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Egypt's 'Knight Without a Horse'" (Itamar Marcus, PMW/IMRA, 2002/11/14)
"Welcome Voice?" (Tom Gross, National Review, 2002/11/12)
"David Duke due in Bahrain for lecture" (Gulf News, 2002/11/12)
"Not just commies, but Jew-hating commies" (James Morrow, The Weekly James, 2002/11/10)
"Divest Yourself" (Hanna Rosin, Slate, 2002/11/08)
"Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series 'A Knight Without a Horse'" (MEMRI, Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 109, 2002/11/08)
"French encyclopedia ordered to remove offensive Holocaust passage" (AP/The Jerusalem Post, 2002/11/06)
"Based on Koranic Verses, Interpretations, and Traditions, Muslim Clerics State: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals" (Aluma Solnick, MEMRI/Special Report - No. 9, 2002/11/01)October 2002
"Storm over 'Elders of Zion' Anti-Semitic series on Egypt TV stirs outrage" (Ashraf Khalil, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002/10/31)
"Two libels and an escalation" (Eliahu Salpeter, Haaretz, 2002/10/30)
"German ceremony here to honor Wehrmacht, SS dead" (Amir Oren, Haaretz, 2002/10/27)
"Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt TV" (Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, 2002/10/26)
"Egypt plans to air tv series on 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'" (AP/The Jerusalem Post, 2002/10/23)
"Nasrallah alleges 'Christian Zionist' plot" (Badih Chayban, The Daily Star, 2002/10/23)
"Al-Hayat Highlights Large Popularity of Syrian Defense Minister's Blood Libel Book at Syrian International Book Fair" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 432, 2002/10/22)
"Judenrein, jawohl! A little dab doesn't do them. Jeb and America. Etc." (Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2002/10/21)
"America in the dock - Myth I: America is totally in hock to the Jewish lobby" (David Frum, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/10/21)
"Iraq's last Jews wait in fear for war" (Ian Cobain, The Times, 2002/10/18)
"Park Peace Protest Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism" (Daphna Berman, The New York Sun, 2002/10/07)
"Why Israel and not Sudan, is singled out" (Charles Jacobs, The Boston Globe, 2002/10/05)
"Duisenbergs Antisemitism Update" (Michael Visser, The Visser View, 2002/10/03)
"Preachers of hate in the Mideast" (Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman, The Washington Times, 2002/10/02)
"The Recruitment of Children in Current Palestinian Strategy" (Justus Weiner, Jerusalem Issue Brief, 2002/10/01)September 2002
"Univ. of Michigan to Host 'Zionism is Racism' Conference" (Michael Freund, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/09/30)
"A familiar ring to Israel criticism" (Robert Leikind, The Boston Globe, 2002/09/30)
"A Question of Anti-Semitism" (Jonathan Alter, Newsweek, from the 2002/10/07 issue)
"Germany's Trial Balloon - Anti-Semitism for political gain and profit" (Joshuah Bearman, LA Weekly, 2002/09/20)
"Saddam and the Jews" (Andrew Sullivan, andrewsullivan.com, 2002/09/20)
"Columnist for Saudi Daily Al-Jazirah: Jews Use Blood for Baked Goods" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 421, 2002/09/19)
"The German Problem" (William Safire, The New York Times, 2002/09/19)
"Israel critic breaks national taboo" (Roger Boyes, The Times, 2002/09/19)
"'They Should Be Slaughtered'" (John Perazzo, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/09/18)
"Address at morning prayers" (Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University, 2002/09/17)
"Zionists Manipulate The World Through Movies: Cinema Expert" (Islam Online, 2002/09/14)
"Arabs still deny Qaida role in 9/11" (Sana Abdallah, UPI, 2002/09/13)
"The Events of September 11 and the Arab Media: The New Antisemitic Myth" (MEMRI, Special Report - No. 7, 2002/09/13)
"True Believers of False Rumors" (David Rohde, The New York Times, 2002/09/12)
"Netanyahu is the victim" (Jonathan Kay, National Post, 2002/09/10)
"Violent protests force cancellation of Netanyahu speech" (AP/Haaretz, 2002/09/09)
"Siemens retreats over Nazi name" (BBC News, 2002/09/05)
"Arab Muslim Anti-Semitism" (Andrew G. Bostom, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/11/25)
Bostom on the history of Arab Muslim Anti-Semitism: "Hajj Amin el-Husseini was appointed Mufti of Jerusalem by the British High Commissioner, in May 1921, a title he retained, following the Ottoman practice, for the remainder of his life. Throughout his public career, the Mufti relied upon traditional Koranic anti-Jewish motifs to arouse the Arab street. For example, during the incitement which led to the 1929 Arab revolt in Palestine, he called for combating and slaughtering "the Jews", not merely Zionists. ... With the ascent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the Mufti and his coterie intensified their anti-Semitic activities to secure support from Hitler's Germany, Bosnian Muslims, and the overall Arab Muslim world, for a jihad to annihilate the Jews of Palestine. ... It is undeniable that the Mufti's virulent anti-Semitism continues to influence Arab policy toward Israel. Not surprisingly, Yasser Arafat, beginning at the age of 16, worked for the Mufti performing terrorist operations. Arafat still considers the Mufti his primary spiritual and political mentor.""Editors of Egyptian Government Papers Hail the Recent Suicide Bombing in a Jerusalem Neighborhood" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 442, 2002/11/24)
"The editors of Egyptian government papers hailed a suicide bombing that was recently carried out by Hamas in a Jerusalem neighborhood. ... The editor of the Al-Gumhuriyya daily, Sameer Ragab also wrote in his daily column about the attack in Jerusalem: "The brave Palestinians will continue to be regarded as terrorists by the Israelis as long as they carryout martyrdom operations by which they are trying to react to [just] a few of the crimes committed against them!!! ... Yesterday a 23 year-old Palestinian martyr blew himself up in a bus in Jerusalem and consequently eleven Israelis were killed, forty-seven wounded, of whom, nine are in critical condition!!! ... ...The Israelis will wake up in the morning put their victims in plastic bags, and a few hours later the Palestinians will embrace each other having pronounced the Shahada (i.e. the Islamic declaration of faith) and be on the way to carryout the most noble, precious, and honorable mission." (See also: "Eleven dead, 50 wounded in suicide bus attack in Jerusalem" (The Jerusalem Post, 2002/11/21))"Campus Anti-Semitism Watch" (Andrew Sullivan, andrewsullivan.com, 2002/11/21)
"The Lebanon Daily Star reports on the comments of one Hisham Sharabi, a professor of Arab Culture at Georgetown University. He was speaking at Balamand University. His view: "Jews are getting ready to take control of us and the Americans have entered the region to possess the oil resources and redraw the geopolitical map of the Arab world ... However, in the long run, neither the Jews nor Americans will be able to subdue us for we are not (Native Americans)." This anti-American Jew-hater is on the faculty of a major American university. One question: why?" (See also: "US-based professor claims Jews want to control Arab world" (Maha Al-Azar, The Daily Star, 2002/11/20))"Anti-Semitic TV Star Vows More Shows" (Maggie Michael, AP/Yahoo! News, 2002/11/20)
"The star of an Egyptian television series based in part on an anti-Semitic work drew cheers and applause Wednesday when he vowed to produce similar programs despite criticism from home and abroad. Actor Mohammed Sobhi co-wrote and stars in "Horseman without a Horse," a six-week series that explores the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a known 19th century forgery that depicts a secret plot by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Sobhi, who also co-produced the series, told a crowd at the opening of a new cultural center that if the production "terrified Zionists, we will produce more series." ... "It honors me very much that I was capable of revealing the great conspiracy aimed at swallowing our beloved nation," Sobhi said. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, in the first domestic criticism, said Monday that free expression "should not be abused to ... incite hatred" and urged that the show begin with an acknowledgment that the Protocols are forged. Sobhi dismissed the group, the country's best-known rights organization, as a 'Zionist organization conspiring against Egypt.'" (See also: "Egypt TV series 'needs anti-Jew warning'" (Magdi Abdelhadi, BBC News, 2002/11/19))"Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series 'Knight Without a Horse' - Part II" (MEMRI, Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 113, 2002/11/20)
"The Egyptian press has emerged largely in favor of the series. An editorial titled "No to Ideological Terrorism," which appeared in the government daily Al-Akhbar, declared: ..."The most important question is: in practice, doesn't Zionism seek to take over the world with money, murder, sex, and the [other] most despicable of means, primarily in our generation?" ... In the same issue of Al-Akhbar was an article authored by Fatma Abdallah Mahmoud, who in April 2002 published an article castigating Hitler for not finishing the job of annihilating the Jews. Mahmoud wrote: "Those murderers [the Jews], the slaughterers, the war criminals, the blood-letters, the enemies of all mankind… never stop playing their worn-out record, the same lame charge and the same discordant tune not based on any foundation of truth – that we are antisemites!! ... The unshakable truth is that the 'Sons of Zion' are the antisemites and the enemies of all humanity… What incriminates them more than anything else, and charges them with antisemitism and enmity towards humanity is the [book]… [that is] satanic in its blood and loathsome in its baseness, called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion!!… The book of protocols drips poison and hatred towards every non-Jew who lives on the face of the earth!!…" Mahmoud's article continues, citing excerpts from the Protocols." (See also: "Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series 'A Knight Without a Horse'" (MEMRI, Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 109, 2002/11/08). For Mahmoud's article "castigating Hitler for not finishing the job of annihilating the Jews", see: "Columnist for Egyptian Government Daily to Hitler: 'If Only You Had Done It, Brother'" (MEMRI, SD# 375, 2002/05/02))"A Last Stand by the Jews in Egypt" (David Lamb, Los Angeles Times, 2002/11/19)
"From scores of mosques, the muezzins' calls to prayer rumble through Cairo likes claps of thunder. But inside the synagogue on Adly Street, behind a wrought iron fence and heavy wooden doors, an old woman named Iman hardly seems to hear them as she dusts mahogany benches and polishes the granite entryway. She works hurriedly even though she knows no one will be coming to pray today. People rarely do. ... "It's only funerals now," she said, sighing. Still, as the volunteer caretaker, she wants everything spotless because responsibility comes with being one of Egypt's last Jews. Today fewer than 200 Egyptian Jews remain, and only a dozen or so - all elderly women - are actively trying to save the nation's Jewish history. Soon the community, which once numbered 150,000 here in the capital alone and dates to the last years of the pharaohs, will fade away.""Egypt TV series 'needs anti-Jew warning'" (Magdi Abdelhadi, BBC News, 2002/11/19)
"In the first domestic criticism of its kind, an Egyptian human rights group has rebuked the state broadcasting authority for showing a television series widely criticised as anti-Semitic. The Egyptian Human Rights Organisation urged all Arab television channels showing the series, Horseman without a Horse, to broadcast a warning that it contained lies about Jews. The television series has been appearing on both Egyptian and other Arab channels for the past two weeks, despite protests from Jewish groups and the United States. The head of the human rights group, Hafez Abu Seida, told the BBC that spreading views hostile to Jews breeds hatred which in turn causes bloodshed." (See also: "Storm over 'Elders of Zion' Anti-Semitic series on Egypt TV stirs outrage" (Ashraf Khalil, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002/10/31) and "Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt TV" (Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, 2002/10/26))"Israel in the cross hairs" (Douglas Davis, The Spectator, from the 2002/11/16 issue)
"The argument is as simplistic as it is flawed: American foreign policy, prisoner of the all-powerful Jewish lobby, has been led down a blind alley of political and economic support for Israel, coupled with an abject refusal to compel Israel (à la Iraq) to abide by UN resolutions. It is this grotesque injustice, so the argument goes, that has provoked rage and frustration within the Islamic world; radicalised and catalysed the impoverished Arab 'street'; fuelled the engine of discontent, and provided the fertile seedbed for international terrorism. Ergo, Israel, the object of Washington's support and the Islamic world's consequent rage, is the real culprit for the spate of Islamic terrorism, from the attacks of 11 September to the Moscow theatre siege, from the bombing of Bali to the now routine suicide bombings that visit the streets of Israel's own cities. ... This incipient anti-Semitic analysis is not yet being articulated by mainstream European political leaders, but they do little to discourage or dispel the relentless anti-Israel message that is being propagated by much of Europe's media.""First Appearance of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Egypt's 'Knight Without a Horse'" (Itamar Marcus, PMW/IMRA, 2002/11/14)
A description and translated transcript of a part of today's episode of the Egyptian TV series "Knight Without a Horse", based on the infamous anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion": "Three old Jews with long gray beards and large black Kippot [Skull Caps] are sitting in a room filled with religious symbols, numerous burning candles, including two Menorah's [7 branched candelabras - reminiscent of the Menorah of the Temple.] ... They are shown whispering, in conspiring manner, about "the book" the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Jews are expressing their fear that "the book" may reach Egypt from Russia where there are numerous copies, and will lead to its being publicized in Egypt. ...
Ovad: "The Others are Hell. Our problem is the Goyim, those who are not Jews. The problem right now is Margaret. We must be sure that the book is in her possession, Yitzhak." ...
Yitzhak: "The British know what the contents of the book are, but if the Egyptians find out there will be more trouble than there was in Russia. It can publicly expose our plans."
Binyamin: "Our group can spread rumors throughout Egypt that the book is a forgery."
Yitzhak: "Our problem is that someone will read the book and fit the contents to what we are trying to accomplish, and will believe in [its truth] thoroughly.'" (See also: "Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt TV" (Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, 2002/10/26))"Welcome Voice?" (Tom Gross, National Review, 2002/11/12)
"Harvard University's English department has invited Tom Paulin - the Oxford poet who has called for the slaughter of U.S. Jews on the West Bank - to deliver "The Morris Gray Lecture" this Thursday (November 14). ... Earlier this year Paulin, who lectures in 19th- and 20th-century English literature at Oxford University, told the influential Egyptian paper al-Ahram Weekly that what he described as "Brooklyn-born" Jewish settlers should be "shot dead." He said: "They should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them." He added: "I can understand how suicide bombers feel. ... I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale." Paulin, who has regularly declared that Israel has no right to exist, and recently resigned from Britain's ruling Labour party on the grounds that Tony Blair was heading a "Zionist government," is no doubt entitled to his opinion. But that Harvard University's English department, whose faculty members include such luminaries as Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, has decided to single Paulin out for honor and provide him with a platform from which to influence the young, is another matter altogether." (See also: "Oxford poet 'wants US Jews shot'" (Neil Tweedie, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/04/13) and "We Get Results" (James Taranto, The Wall Street Journal/Best of the Web Today, 2002/04/12): "Yesterday we noted that Harvard's English department had invited Tom Paulin, an Irish poet who advocates the murder of Jews in Israel's disputed territories, to deliver its annual Morris Gray Lecture Thursday. Less than 24 hours later, the lecture was canceled.")"David Duke due in Bahrain for lecture" (Gulf News, 2002/11/12)
The former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan finds eager ears in the Arab world for his anti-Semitic rants. Via Little Green Footballs: "David Duke, who represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 1991 and ran unsuccessfully for governor the same year, "is a well-known critic of the Zionist lobby in the U.S. and its threat to the U.S. national security," said Mohammed Zuhair, manager of Discover Islam Centre. The centre, an educational institute serving mostly the non-Muslim community in Bahrain, is sponsoring Duke's four-day visit. "During his stay, he will deliver two lectures, 'Global Struggle against Zionism' and "Israeli Involvement in September 11 (attacks)'. Both will be open to the public and followed by a question and answer session," Zuhair said. ... He said Duke was not being invited because of his perceived anti-Jewish stand but because he has recently authored a book that 'exposes the Zionist agenda for world domination.'" (Note: As Charles Johnson points out, Duke was "a state senator, not a US senator". See also: "A radio broadcast on 'the world's most dangerous terrorist'" (David Duke, Arab News, 2002/05/14))"Not just commies, but Jew-hating commies" (James Morrow, The Weekly James, 2002/11/10)
Morrow on yesterday's anti-war rally in Florence: "Last night, the two very short flashes they played on the Channel 9 News showed signs that clearly read, in English, "Victory to the Intifada" and, more bluntly, "FUCK ISRAEL." (Your humble blogger, in anticipation of such signs, crouched down with his nose to the TV to read them when the report aired). And clicking around looking for photos, I find this dessicated old fool carrying placards that read, if my Italian is correct, "U.S.A. and Israel: The TRUE Terrorists" and "U.S.A. and [Star of David]: Cancers of Humanity." (See also the photo: "Florence Flooded by Anti-War Demonstrators" (WorldNews, 2002/11/09))"Divest Yourself" (Hanna Rosin, Slate, 2002/11/08)
"The divestment movement drifted over from Europe pretty tainted, and not by Muslim radicals. There, some of its lefty proponents are still naked in their bigotry, foaming against the Shylocks of their imagination. Take one M.L. Sinnott, a scientist at the University of Manchester who helped organize academic and scientific boycotts of Israeli scholars. Stephen Greenblatt, as head of the Modern Languages Association, wrote to one of Sinnott's colleagues objecting to their having fired two researchers merely because they were Israeli. And here is what Sinnott wrote back: "From the 'claptrap' of your open letter," he began, "one would imagine Israel to be an inoffensive Mediterranean Sweden rather than a voelkisch polity whose atrocities surpass those of Milosevic's Yugoslavia." He then progresses to Zionism as the mirror image of Nazism, Jenin as Kristallnacht, the "breathtaking power" of the Jewish lobby, and, of course, the media, "either controlled by Jews or browbeaten by them." ... Berman boils down the phenomenon to the "Anti-Imperialism of Fools," a takeoff on an August Bebel phrase particularly apt for this year's divestment movement: The radical left, who in this case are spillovers from the World Bank protests, boil their target down to one easy, ugly enemy that is in reality a tiny, relatively insignificant Mediterranean country instead of focusing on world-class imperialists like China and Russia or for that matter world-class human rights abusers. ... There should be a way to design a movement objecting to Israel's policies that is free of anti-Semitism. There even ought to be a legitimate way to object to Israel's very existence on purely political grounds. But so far, it seems, no one has managed to do it.""Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series 'A Knight Without a Horse'" (MEMRI, Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 109, 2002/11/08)
"On November 6th, 2002, some Arab television channels aired the first segment of a 41-part serial called "A Knight Without a Horse," which is based on 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' ... The series aroused much debate in the Egyptian and Arab press. Most writers supported the airing of the series, but a few criticized Egypt's obsession with antisemitic writings. ... After his return from Baghdad, where he had gone to observe the referendum in which Iraqi president Saddam Hussein won 100% of the votes, [producer Muhammad] Subhi said he was 'not interested in Israel's protests, and unaffected by their hysterical screams… because I am exposing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and see them as the basis of Zionism. I found that the memoirs of Hafez Najib [on which the series is based] are fertile ground for a work that will expose these protocols… They [the Jews] cannot accept any criticism, especially if it is from an Arab. They realize that discussion of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion will expose their true racist face, their expansionist intentions, and their objection to any peace.'" (See also: "Storm over 'Elders of Zion' Anti-Semitic series on Egypt TV stirs outrage" (Ashraf Khalil, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002/10/31) and "Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt TV" (Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, 2002/10/26))"French encyclopedia ordered to remove offensive Holocaust passage" (AP/The Jerusalem Post, 2002/11/06)
"A French court on Wednesday ordered the publishers of France's leading reference book to remove from its next edition a revisionist historian's claim that the figure of 6 million deaths during the Holocaust was grossly exaggerated. Five French Jewish groups had launched the legal action against the encylopedia-like reference guide, Quid, saying the passage violated a French law that makes it illegal to publish revisionist theories. ... In a section on World War II extermination camps, the book says that the official number of deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau was 1.2 million. However, it adds that "other figures have circulated," and cites one by a revisionist historian, Robert Faurisson, who claims that 150,000 people died at the camp, of which 100,000 were Jews. The Quid, a single volume 2,000-paged reference guide, is known in France as the book that holds the answers to all questions. It is an essential tool for researchers and found in many French households.""Based on Koranic Verses, Interpretations, and Traditions, Muslim Clerics State: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals" (Aluma Solnick, MEMRI/Special Report - No. 9, 2002/11/01)
A study placing "references to Jews as apes and pigs in their religious and historical context": "Depicting Jews – and sometimes also Zionists – as "the descendants of apes and pigs" is extremely widespread today in public discourse in the Arab and Islamic worlds. ... The image has pervaded the public consciousness, even in child-rearing. ... According to Islam, the ancient Jews were turned into animals for transgressing the word of God. This divine punishment is mentioned in the most important sources of Islamic religious law, in both the Koran's recounting of the divine revelation, and in the extremely reliable Hadiths (traditions of the Prophet Muhammad) compiled by the leading ninth-century sages Muslim and Al-Bukhari, which mention also mice, lizards, and other animals in the same context. ... Recently, the Hamas monthly Falastin Al-Muslima published a series of articles on how Allah punished Jews. One chapter was devoted to the punishment of transforming them into animals. The series' author, Ibrahim Al-'Ali, takes the approach of most Koran commentators, explaining that the change was actually physical. He writes: 'Allah did not mete out the punishment of transformation on any nation besides the Jews. The significance of the punishment is actual change in the image of the Jew, and the perfect transformation from a human condition to a bestial condition – an actual change from human appearance to the form of genuine apes, pigs, mice, and lizards...'""Storm over 'Elders of Zion' Anti-Semitic series on Egypt TV stirs outrage" (Ashraf Khalil, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002/10/31)
"Muhammed Sobhi seems genuinely puzzled by all the fuss being made about his latest project - a "historical" series about a Jewish plot to rule the world due to start airing during the television-intensive holy month of Ramadan. ... While Sobhi claims to be on a research mission, his mind appears to have been made up some time ago. He told an interviewer from Al-Jazeera television earlier this year that "Zionism exists and it has controlled the world since the dawn of history." Sobhi adds that the series provides proof that 18 of the 24 "Protocols" (which include sections entitled "Methods of Conquest," "Control of the Press" and "Instilling Obedience") have already come to pass." (See also: "Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt TV" (Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, 2002/10/26))"Two libels and an escalation" (Eliahu Salpeter, Haaretz, 2002/10/30)
"In preceding decades, modern Arab anti-Semitism drew its terms from those of Christian anti-Semitism and European racism. Now, with the surge in Muslim fundamentalism, Arab anti-Semitism has also returned to the Koran. The Jews are no longer an inferior people that should be kept in inferior status and their lives protected; they are enemies of Islam and must be obliterated. Muslim anti-Semitism is thus becoming like the "annihilationist" anti-Semitism of the Nazi era. ... The radicalized return to fundamentalist Muslim roots is described by Dr. Meir Litvak's study in the 2002 report of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He notes, among other things, that "Zionism," "Israel" and "Jews" are used interchangeably by the Arabs, not only for tactical propaganda purposes, to argue that they are not anti-Semites, but also for ideological reasons. They see Zionism and the State of Israel as the modern embodiment of Judaism, which they claim, was the sworn enemy of the prophet, Mohammed.""German ceremony here to honor Wehrmacht, SS dead" (Amir Oren, Haaretz, 2002/10/27)
"The German Embassy in Israel is planning a memorial ceremony next month - and not for the first time, according to the embassy's military attache - for Germans killed while serving in the army of the Third Reich, including those in SS units. ... In response to a question, Elbers said similar events are held annually in Germany and sponsored by its missions throughout the world on the memorial day (Sunday, November 3) for war casualties "and victims of hatred, persecution and racism." He indicated that the embassy held previous memorial ceremonies for soldiers in the Nazis' service, but privately and without drawing Israeli attention. Elbers expressed displeasure that the invitations to Israelis this year led to the event's exposure and negative responses.""Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life on Egypt TV" (Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, 2002/10/26)
"An Egyptian satellite television channel has begun teasers for its blockbuster Ramadan series that its producers acknowledge incorporates ideas from the infamous czarist forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." That document, a pillar of anti-Semitic hatred for about a century, appears to be gaining a new foothold in parts of the Arab world, some scholars and observers say. The series, "Horse Without a Horseman," traces the history of the Middle East from 1855 to 1917 through the eyes of an Egyptian who fought British occupiers and the Zionist movement. It is divided into 41 episodes and will be shown nightly through the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins in about two weeks and guarantees maximum viewership because many Muslims congregate at home after breaking the daily fast. With Egyptian state television and other Arab channels also broadcasting the series, the potential audience numbers in the tens of millions. ... Still, the show's backers say they are keeping an open mind about its authenticity. They say that in any event, reality seems to bear them out, in that Israel controls part of the Middle East. "In a way, don't they dominate?" said Hala Sarhan, Dream TV's vice president and feisty personality on the air. 'Of course, what we read from the 'Protocols,' it says it's a kind of conspiracy. They want to control; they want to dominate. I represent everybody in the street. We will see whether this happened throughout history or not.'" (See also: "Egypt plans to air tv series on 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'" (AP/The Jerusalem Post, 2002/10/23))"Egypt plans to air tv series on 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'" (AP/The Jerusalem Post, 2002/10/23)
Arab anti-Semitism II: "Egyptian state television will broadcast a 30-part series based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous anti-Semitic tract the show's creator and star says "reveals the Zionist schemes to seize Palestine." This week, Egyptian television began advertising "Horseman Without a Horse," which it said will be broadcast during the first half of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month and traditionally prime time for serialized television specials. Ramadan starts in early November." (Note: For more information about the Protocols, see also: "'You know very well that the Zionists control everything'" (Mårten Barck, 2001/10/21))"Nasrallah alleges 'Christian Zionist' plot" (Badih Chayban, The Daily Star, 2002/10/23)
Arab anti-Semitism I: "Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that Arabs were not "red Indians" and will not be liquidated or driven into exile by Israel and the United States. Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Haret Hreik, Nasrallah said that "Christian Zionists" were gaining strength and had a powerful impact on US foreign policy. ... Nasrallah said their aim was to return the Jews to Israel and rebuild their temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70AD, over the Al-Aqsa Mosque. However, Nasrallah added, "if they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." Nasrallah also spoke about US hegemony in the region, asserting that Washington had reached 'a new level of insanity and arrogance.'""Al-Hayat Highlights Large Popularity of Syrian Defense Minister's Blood Libel Book at Syrian International Book Fair" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 432, 2002/10/22)
"Today, the London Arabic daily Al-Hayat reported that Ba'ath party leader for decades Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass's book "The Matzah of Zion," which presents the Damascus blood libel of 1840 as a "historical fact," enjoyed high popularity at the international book fair held in Damascus. The following are excerpts from the article: 'A source in the Tlass Publishing House for Research and Translation told Al-Hayat that this book is very popular among both the 600 books of the Tlass publishers, and the 38,000 books exhibited in the fair. The reason for its popularity, said the source, is 'the will of the next generation to know about the Jews, how they harmed Arabs and others, and their motives to murder other human beings.' Due to the large demand, the Tlass publication decided to publish its eighth reprint of the book in Arabic, and to publish it in other languages as well, such as English, French, and Italian.'" (See also: "The Damascus Blood Libel (1840) as Told by Syria's Minister of Defense, Mustafa Tlass" (MEMRI, Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 99, 2002/06/27))"Judenrein, jawohl! A little dab doesn't do them. Jeb and America. Etc." (Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2002/10/21)
"I have a correspondent who works for UBS, in Europe. UBS is the largest Swiss bank, owning Paine Webber and other companies. They've just opened a new office in Bahrain, and an interesting invoice surfaced, from a German furniture company. I am in possession of a copy of that invoice. Stamped on it are the following words: "We herewith confirm that [the] above-mentioned goods are not of Israeli origin, nor do they contain to any degree Israeli components, nor have they been imported from Israel." Lovely. My correspondent says, 'To sum it up: Fifty-seven years after Auschwitz, a Germany company (no less) issues a paper certifying that its products are Judenrein. Shouldn't there be some outrage? Or at least some concern?'""America in the dock - Myth I: America is totally in hock to the Jewish lobby" (David Frum, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/10/21)
The first of a five-part series about British attitudes to America: "Three weeks ago, I was standing in Piccadilly, watching the big anti-war march pass by. Two girls in Islamic headdress glanced my way, nudged each other, and then approached me. "Have we seen you on television?" one of them asked. I had appeared on a British television programme about Iraq shortly before, so I answered that yes, very possibly they had. "We knew it!" they exclaimed. Then they hissed: "You're part of the Jewish lobby, aren't you?" ... I wish I could say that those two girls had learnt their politics from some ranting mullah in a north London mosque. In fact, the certainty that American policy is controlled by what one British magazine called a "kosher conspiracy" was the single most widely held opinion I heard in the course of an eight-day visit to Britain. ... When Americans look at the Middle East, they see a democratic society inspired by the Bible and committed to human freedom, surrounded by murderous and tyrannical enemies. And when they look at the Palestinians, what do they see? Not the victims that Europeans perceive - but the people who danced with glee as New York and Washington burned. Americans see the inventors of the airplane hijacking and the exponents of suicide-murder. In short, they see people who inspired and sympathise with America's newest and deadliest enemies. ... And it is for that reason, and not because of some kosher conspiracy, that America stands by Israel and confronts Iraq.""Iraq's last Jews wait in fear for war" (Ian Cobain, The Times, 2002/10/18)
"Fifty years ago there were about 350,000 Jewish people in Iraq. When the British marched into Baghdad at the end of the First World War a fifth of its citizens were estimated to be Jewish. Today 38 remain in the capital. In Basra, the once prosperous port in the south, there is just one old woman. In Mosul and Amarah, and other Iraqi cities where Jews had lived for more than two millennia, their communities have vanished without trace. ... With the threat of conflict looming, anti-Zionist banners appearing on public buildings, and high-placed Iraqis increasingly unnerved by Washington's talk of regime change, the dwindling Jewish community of Baghdad is terrified of what the future may hold. "I'm sorry, but I can't possibly talk to you," said Ibrahim Youssef Saleh, a doleful 80-year-old man who has been the leader of the community since the last rabbi died in 1996 and the president of the synagogue left to join his family in London two years ago. "You must have written permission from the Ministry of Information before I can talk to you, and then they will send one of their minders to sit in on the interview." Then, trembling visibly, Mr Saleh opened the door of his small office, where a small number of Hebrew texts had been slipped between the Arabic volumes on the bookshelves, and where the obligatory portrait of Saddam gazes down from the wall. "Will you please leave now?" he begged.""Park Peace Protest Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism" (Daphna Berman, The New York Sun, 2002/10/07)
"The anti-war demonstration in Central Park yesterday, one of several across the country over the weekend, was riddled with anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment, and in some cases classical anti-Semitism, as thousand of protesters assembled for what was ostensibly a show of harmless political dissent. Estimates of the number of protesters in New York ranged between 3,000 and 10,000, with people arriving from throughout the tri-state area. Many combined their opposition to President Bush's plans for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq with hostility to Israel. ... The rally was organized by a group called Not In Our Name, which has produced a statement signed by liberal luminaries such as playwright Tony Kushner, feminist Gloria Steinem, and "politics of meaning" champion Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine. ... Ayman Asawa, who called himself a peace activist, agreed. "Bush is more Israeli than the Israelis themselves. He is a puppet of the Zionists [who] control the media, the government and the economy. The Jews' book - the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - explains how they control the world and how they make people fight against each other." His reference was to a notorious Russian forgery that has been a centerpiece of anti-Semitism since Czarist times. "The American government," Mr. Asawa said, uttering another allegation frequently heard from anti-Semites, 'is controlled by corporations and the corporations are controlled by Zionism.'""Why Israel and not Sudan, is singled out" (Charles Jacobs, The Boston Globe, 2002/10/05)
"An instructive case is Sudan. Atrocities there exceed every other world horror. For 10 years the blacks of South Sudan have been victims of an onslaught that has taken more than 2 million lives. ... Western lack of interest is all the more stunning as Khartoum's onslaught has rekindled the trade in black slaves, halted (mostly) a century ago by the British abolitionists. Arab militias storm African villages, kill the men, and enslave the women and children. Accounts by journalists and others depict the horror. In these pogroms, after the men are slaughtered, the women, girls, and boys are gang raped - or they have their throats slit for resisting. The terrorized survivors are marched northward and distributed to Arab masters, the women to become concubines, the girls domestics, the boys goat herders. ... How can it be that there is no storm of indignation at Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, which, though they rushed to Jenin to investigate false reports of Jews massacring Arabs, care so much less about Arab-occupied Juba, South Sudan's black capital? ... This selectivity, at least in the United States, does not come from the hatred of Jews. It is ''a human rights complex'' - and is not hard to understand. The human rights community, composed mostly of compassionate white people, feels a special duty to protest evil done by those who are like ''us.'' ... The biggest victims of this complex are not the Jews who are obsessively criticized but the victims of genocide, enslavement, religious persecution, and ethnic cleansing who are murderously ignored: the Christian slaves of Sudan, the Muslim slaves of Mauritania, the Tibetans, the Kurds, the Christians in Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt.""Duisenbergs Antisemitism Update" (Michael Visser, The Visser View, 2002/10/03)
"Wim Duisenberg, the Dutch socialist, may be presiding over the European Central Bank, but he sure isn't boss in his own home. Some of you may remember the furore that broke out when his wife, Gretta, hung a Palestinian flag from her house, to show her anger at the "the rich Jewish lobby in America" that perpetuates the injustice against the "Palestinian people." Wim Duisenberg then quietly removed the flag, after complaints from Jewish organizations, but Gretta moved it back. She has since come out as president of a left-wing committee campaigning for an immediate end to the "occupation of Palestine." But things have now really gotten out of hand. The prominent Dutch lawyer Abraham Moszkowicz (son of a Holocaust survivor) has filed a complaint on behalf of Jewish organizations against Mrs Duisenberg for insulting Jews. Mrs Duisenberg was asked in a radio program how many signatures she was hoping to collect for her petition. She said: "Oh, perhaps six million" and started laughing loudly, in an apparent reference to the six million Jews who perished in the War. Mrs Duisenberg thought it very witty to equate the Jewish "aggression" against the "Palestinians" with Nazi aggression against the Jews. Yet another in the long strings of recent incidents that prove anti-semitism is alive and well on the continent that slaughtered the Jews like animals only fifty years ago. Will there be a public uproar over her comments? Don't count on it..." (See also original article in dutch: "Aanklacht ingediend tegen Gretta Duisenberg" (NOS; 2002/10/03))"Preachers of hate in the Mideast" (Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman, The Washington Times, 2002/10/02)
"Take Sheik You Al Qaradawi, who reaches millions each week through his own show on Qatar-based Al Jazeera television. He was praised by the New York Times for condemning the September 11 attacks, but he only opposed them because the planes that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon carried civilian passengers ("had there been nobody on board, the matter would be different.") ...
Just a few days ago, the United Arab Emirates' deputy prime minister chaired a conference at the Zayed Center, a respected Arab think-tank in Abu Dhabi, at which the center's executive director dismissed Israel's right to exist and issued a press release declaring the Holocaust a "false fable." These "men of god" even endorse the use of nuclear weapons against the enemies of Islam. Aaed ben Maqbul al-Qurni, a leading Muslim theologian, recently argued, for example, that Arabs must reject the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because there can be "no agreement with (heretics) concerning the prohibition of such weapons, [unless] either they become Muslims ... or accept the reign of Islam ... or a battle with whatever weapons are allowed by Islamic law." In other words, he invokes Islamic tradition to urge Muslim governments to acquire and deploy weapons of mass destruction against Israel and other "enemies of Islam." The clock is ticking. Political, religious and human-rights leaders must either publicly condemn the "apocalypse now" rhetoric gripping the Arab and Muslim world, or be prepared to witness the fulfillment of the vision of the preachers of hate.""The Recruitment of Children in Current Palestinian Strategy" (Justus Weiner, Jerusalem Issue Brief, 2002/10/01)
"Recently, Abu Mazen, a senior Arafat aide who is the Secretary General of the PLO executive, criticized the tactics of terrorist organizations in Gaza. Abu Mazen told a Kuwaiti newspaper interviewer, "I am against little children going out to die. It is a terrible thing. At least 40 children in Rafah [in the Gaza Strip] lost their arm from the throwing of Bangalore torpedoes [a form of pipe bomb]. They received 5 shekels [approximately $1] in order to throw them." ... One Palestinian Authority television program clip, aimed at young viewers, features a boy killed in Gaza arriving in heaven where there are beaches, waterfalls, and a Ferris wheel. He is saying, "I am not waving goodbye, I am waving to tell you to follow in my footsteps." On the accompanying soundtrack a song plays, "How pleasant is the smell of martyrs, how pleasant the smell of land, the land enriched by the blood, the blood pouring out of a fresh body." ... Signs on the walls of kindergartens proclaim their students as "the shaheeds [martyrs] of tomorrow," and elementary school teachers and principals commend their young students for wanting to "tear their [Zionists'] bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know." ... Blatant child abuse of this kind, and efforts to cover it up, would not be tolerated anywhere else in the civilized world. Where are the children's welfare advocates to condemn the practices that poison the minds and imperil the bodies of young Palestinians?""Univ. of Michigan to Host 'Zionism is Racism' Conference" (Michael Freund, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/09/30)
"The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is slated to play host to a national student conference late next week, one of whose "guiding principles" is that it "condemns the racism and discrimination inherent in Zionism", the Jerusalem Post has learned. The Second National Student Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which is scheduled to begin on October 12, is being sponsored by pro-Palestinian and socialist groups. It aims to promote an end to US aid to Israel and to encourage divestment by universities and corporations from the Jewish state. In the conference's promotional material, organizers refer to "apartheid Israel", and refuse to condemn Palestinian terrorism, stating, "As a solidarity movement, it is not our place to dictate the strategies or tactics adopted by the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation." In addition to asserting that "racism" is "inherent to Zionism", the organizers call for "the right of return and repatriation for all Palestinian refugees" as well as 'an end to the Israeli system of Apartheid and discrimination.'""A familiar ring to Israel criticism" (Robert Leikind, The Boston Globe, 2002/09/30)
"Under the cover of seemingly rational critiques of Israel, anti-Semitism is taking root. Palestinian clerics call for the killing of Jews without eliciting protest. Media in countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt report on Jewish conspiracies to destroy Islam, but there is no outcry. French President Chirac denies there is anti-Semitism in France, despite nearly 400 incidents against Jews in April alone. Evidence is mounting that demonization of Jews is gaining respectability and that the struggle in the Middle East is providing cover for the expression of such hatred. This does not justify reflexively labeling all criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic. It does, however, compel us to ask why some critics seem interested in investing all their moral capital in attacking embattled, democratic Israel." (See also: "Where to draw the line?" (Cathy Young, The Boston Globe, 2002/09/30): "Far more common is the ploy of equating the Israelis with the Nazis: posters depicting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a swastika armband, comments about ''the Zionist SS,'' comparisons of Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the Holocaust. One can disagree with Sharon's policies, but comparing the head of the Jewish state to Hitler, who sought to exterminate the Jews, is beyond obscenity." For a recent example, see "Genocide in Palestine" (Islamic Republic News Agency, 2002/09/28))"A Question of Anti-Semitism" (Jonathan Alter, Newsweek, from the 2002/10/07 issue)
"But there's a dark side to divestment. In the case of Israel, the movement suffers from a careless use of analogy and a poor reading of the Middle East. ... But at a certain point, persistent double standards start to smell of something more malignant. Funny how campus activists never seem to mention, say, Syrian occupation of Lebanon. They bemoan capital punishment in the United States but say nothing when the Palestinians routinely execute suspected collaborators, including the mothers of young children. They single out Israeli human-rights abuses that pale next to those of their Arab neighbors, which we know less about because of press restrictions. Anti-Zionism isn't anti-Semitism - until it reaches a certain pitch. Divestment may be only a fall fad on college campuses, but it's political nitroglycerin. It raises unrealistic hopes that Palestinians might eventually get all of Palestine with the help of sympathizers in Europe and the United States. It under mines any progress toward a two-state solution, the only practical and moral path to peace.""Germany's Trial Balloon - Anti-Semitism for political gain and profit" (Joshuah Bearman, LA Weekly, 2002/09/20)
"Jürgen Möllemann is the second in command of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the classically liberal, center-right party that has participated as a junior partner in Germany's government for much of the postwar era. What began as a political critique of Israel turned nasty when Möllemann began suggesting in May that Ariel Sharon and Michel Friedman, an aggressively public German Jewish personality with his own talk show, were to blame for anti-Semitism, because they conjured it out of non-Jews with their behavior. ... This was the affair inside the affair: Not only did an anti-Semite come out of the closet, but he did so for political gain. Chaim-Schneider says it's a paradigm shift: "Okay, an anti-Semite; nothing new. But now, for the first time in German politics since the war, a leading politician from a democratic party - this was a liberal, no less, not some fringe nut - went looking for votes with anti-Semitic stereotypes. This was unthinkable 10 years ago. No one would have dared. He would have been kicked out of the party." (See also: "Israel critic breaks national taboo" (Roger Boyes, The Times, 2002/09/19))"Saddam and the Jews" (Andrew Sullivan, andrewsullivan.com, 2002/09/20)
"I'm mystified why more hasn't been made of Saddam's assertion in his letter to the United Nations of the global threat of world Jewry. Here's the key passage: "In targeting Iraq, the United States administration is acting on behalf of Zionism, which has been killing the heroic people of Palestine, destroying their property, murdering their children and seeking to impose their domination on the whole world, not only militarily, but also economically and politically." Like the rest of the letter, this part is barely literate but its meaning is clear. Saddam is claiming that the U.S. is a tool of Zionist forces that are trying to take over the whole world! This isn't like Hitler. It is Hitler. When a figure like this simply echoes Nazi language, why isn't there universal shock and derision? Why isn't that the headline? Or have we become completely inured to the fact that the 1930s are alive and well and centered in Baghdad and the West Bank?" (See also excerpts from the letter to the United Nations General Assembly from President Saddam Hussein of Iraq: "In Saddam Hussein's Words: It's for Oil" (The New York Times, 2002/09/19))"Columnist for Saudi Daily Al-Jazirah: Jews Use Blood for Baked Goods" (MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series - No. 421, 2002/09/19)
The ancient anti-Semitic blood libel and the "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" are used as "proofs" of "the intentions of the Jews" in a recent article by columnist Dr. Muhammad bin S'ad Al-Shwey'ir, published in the Saudi state controlled daily Al-Jazirah: "Christian Europe showed enmity toward the Jews when it transpired that their rabbis craftily hunt anyone walking alone, [tempting] him to enter their house of worship. Then they take his blood to use for baked goods for their holidays, as part of their ritual. ... In the book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Precepts of the Talmud, by Shauqi Abd Al-Nasser, the 24th protocol appears; it represents the goal towards which the Jews strive with their tactics, their false media, and their treachery. The free world must take notice – primarily the West and America, where the intentions of the Jews have been revealed – as they gnaw away at the societies like the worm gnaws away at the wood until it is entirely consumed before signs [of the damage] are [visible]. [The West and America] must awaken, and must support the Muslims against them [i.e. the Jews] before it is too late." (See also: "Saudi Government Daily: Jews Use Teenagers' Blood for 'Purim' Pastries" (Special Dispatch No. 354, MEMRI, 2002/03/13))"The German Problem" (William Safire, The New York Times, 2002/09/19)
Germany III: "At a meeting in the Axel Springer building in Hamburg on Aug. 27 with about 30 American friends of Germany, the defense minister who had been recently booted out of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's cabinet for financial irregularities was asked why Germany was so loudly opposed to President Bush's campaign to oust Saddam Hussein. Rudolf Scharping reported that he had answered that very question in a Schröder cabinet meeting: it was all about the Jews. Bush was motivated to overthrow Saddam by his need to curry favor with what Scharping called "a powerful - perhaps overly powerful - Jewish lobby" in the coming U.S. elections.""Israel critic breaks national taboo" (Roger Boyes, The Times, 2002/09/19)
Germany I: "Germany's election campaign took a nasty twist yesterday when a senior politician from the Free Democratic Party attacked the Israeli Government and a leading member of the German Jewish community. ... At an election rally in Aachen [Jürgen Möllemann] was applauded when he said: "I will continue to describe Israel as a war-mongering state as long as Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister, violates the Oslo peace treaty." No one, he said, would stop him, not even "the Friedmanns of this world". Michel Friedmann, a Christian Democrat who is also deputy leader of the Jewish community, is one of Herr Möllemann's most outspoken critics. ... Both the phrasing and the timing - in the midst of a debate on whether Germany should fight Iraq - have ensured that Herr Möllemann is being ostracised by the political establishment. Paul Spiegel, the head of the Central Council of German Jews, said: 'Anyone who positions himself like this in the final stretch of an election campaign has disqualified himself from a democratic election.'""'They Should Be Slaughtered'" (John Perazzo, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/09/18)
"If you attended religious services this past weekend, recall, for a moment, the preacher's sermon. Did any portion of his or her message bear some resemblance to this: "Have no mercy on the Jews. No matter where they are, fight them. ... Wherever you are, kill the Jews, the Americans, ... and those who stand by them. ... It is forbidden to befriend Israelis or to aid them. Don't love them or enter into agreement with them. ... They should be slaughtered. They should be murdered." There's little likelihood of any listener dozing off during such a sermon, which was in fact delivered during worship services at a Gaza mosque on October 13, 2000 by Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, a member of the Palestinian Authority's "Fatwa Council," and former acting Rector of Gaza's Islamic University. ... That anti-Semitism now fuels not only the passion with which Arab nations bang the drum for Palestinian statehood - but also their adjoining hatred for Israel's strongest supporter, America. With near unanimity, however, Western religious and political leaders have been reluctant to acknowledge the shocking level of anti-Semitism in the Islamic world. ... The refusal to face uncomfortable truths about those who seek our destruction only prevents us from comprehending the enormity of their hatred. And that is a recipe for disaster of a magnitude beyond words.""Address at morning prayers" (Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University, 2002/09/17)
The Harvard president condemns the increasing anti-Semitism at Harvard and around the world: "But where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated right-wing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities. Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent. ... Hundreds of European academics have called for an end to support for Israeli researchers, though not for an end to support for researchers from any other nation. ... And some here at Harvard and some at universities across the country have called for the University to single out Israel among all nations as the lone country where it is inappropriate for any part of the university’s endowment to be invested. I hasten to say the University has categorically rejected this suggestion." (See also: "How Harvard and M.I.T. professors are planting a seed of malevolence" (Ruth Wisse, Jewish World Review, 2002/05/29))"Zionists Manipulate The World Through Movies: Cinema Expert" (Islam Online, 2002/09/14)
The heading of the article and the title of the "study" says it all: "Israeli movie makers use the cinema industry as a tool to distort the image and goals of the Palestinian cause in the western mentality, said an Iraqi researcher and movie experts. The Zionist lobby uses its huge role in the movie industry in the west and in the occupied territories as an effective tool of propaganda to publicize for the notion of occupying Palestine and to win the sympathy of the western audience, said Abdel Ghafour Al-Ne'ma in a study entitled "The Octopus of the Zionist Cinema". ... The study also said that making movies with high production capabilities is another method to deliver a certain message the Zionists want the world to believe, the first of which was a movie, entitled "Ben Houd" produced during the silent cinema era in 1926 and then it was redone with sounds and in colors in 1959. Zionists have been using Hollywood's movie industry to spread their propaganda This movie was followed by many others, such as "Ten Commandments" produced in 1956, "Land of Pharaohs" in 1950, "Soliman and the Queen of Sheba” in 1959..." (Note: Found via the Octopus of the Blogs - Little Green Footballs)
"Arabs still deny Qaida role in 9/11" (Sana Abdallah, UPI, 2002/09/13)
"Television programs and confessions of senior al Qaida members claiming responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States have still failed to persuade many Arabs that other fellow Arabs and Muslims were behind the devastating attacks on New York and Washington. ... On the "al Jazeera Forum" call-in program after the video clips were aired, callers from around the Arab world went as far as accusing the channel of "a Zionist agenda" for blaming Arabs and Muslims for the Sept. 11 attacks. ... When one caller named Salah expressed his opinion that the U.S. administration and the "Zionists" were behind the attacks, the program's anchorwoman insisted: "We are now beyond who is responsible for the attacks and should focus on the repercussions of Sept. 11." Salah responded that, 'even if bin Laden, al Qaida and Arabs were involved in the attacks, they must have been used by the Zionists and their intelligence apparatus to achieve their goals of colonizing the Arabs and Muslims.'" (Also: "According to the Jordanian mass-circulation daily al-Dustur's Web site, the majority of online voters believed that Israel was the real party behind the attacks. The Web site showed Friday that 59 percent of a total of 2,582 voters were convinced of Israel's responsibility, while only 15 percent believed Arabs were behind the Sept. 11 attacks. In the online voting from Sept. 8 to 13, around 19 percent said they believed that "international intelligence" (meaning the CIA) was behind the attacks and 7 percent believed the "American right" was responsible.")
"The Events of September 11 and the Arab Media: The New Antisemitic Myth" (MEMRI, Special Report - No. 7, 2002/09/13)
An updated report about conspiracy theories in Arab media, claiming that American and or Jewish/Israeli elements carried out the attacks: "The Saudi daily Al-Watan published an article by the Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, in which he claimed that the September 11 attacks were an American conspiracy involving the cooperation of extremist Islamic groups formed in the days of the struggle against the Soviets. According to Garaudy, the planes could have been directed by technological means, with no real need for humans; the names that allegedly were those of the perpetrators were names of Islamic extremists known to the Americans who could easily be connected with the attacks. Like others, Garaudy also claimed that the attacks corresponded with the American strategy to take control of Central Asian oil reserves - a strategy led by the largely Jewish Pentagon hawks. Further proof, he said, was the absence of 4,000 Jews from their place of work at the World Trade Center on that day, as well as the Jews' profits from stock market deals made using their prior information on the attacks.""True Believers of False Rumors" (David Rohde, The New York Times, 2002/09/12)
A dispatch from Pakistan: "Raising his voice so people gathered around him on the train platform could hear, Sohail Kabir announced his reaction to the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. "The question we should ask is, 'Where were all the Jews in the World Trade Center?'" said Mr. Kabir, 47, property dealer. "They all left the World Trade Center. "It's in the newspaper," he added. "There was not a single Jew." Twelve months after the attacks, reports in two Urdu-language newspapers this morning continued to feed a belief here that Israeli or American intelligence agencies carried out the strikes to stoke hatred of Muslims. False rumors circulating on the Internet that Jews were given secret warnings of the attacks were also repeated in the articles. ... "I think Henry Kissinger is behind this whole plan," one elderly man announced. 'He has always been against Muslims and Pakistan.'""Netanyahu is the victim" (Jonathan Kay, National Post, 2002/09/10)
"For anyone worried about the "right to dissent" in the post-Sept. 11 era, I offer, in rebuttal, Concordia University. The school is already well known to Canadians thanks to its student union, which last year published a handbook demonizing Israel and glorifying Palestinian violence. Yesterday, Concordia won new notoriety: An Arabist rabble shut down a scheduled speech by Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister. ... With no speech to cover, I drifted among the protesters. Most of them had no idea they'd prevailed, and delivered statements to me in the vein of "as we speak, a blood-soaked war criminal is inside that building spewing his racist propaganda." When I told them of the cancellation, they were ecstatic. ... Concordia University is the centre of militant Arabism in Canada, and it has recently seen a steady stream of extremists parade through its halls. (Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, a prominent university group that organizes demonstrations, has circulated articles by Holocaust deniers alleging Israel is developing an "ethnic bomb" that will kill Arabs but not Jews.)" (See also: "Netanyahu pleased by show of 'zealotry'" (Heather Sokoloff, National Post, 2002/09/10): "'It was 1939 Europe all over again,' said Thomas Hecht, 73, chairman of the Canada-Israel Committee's Quebec branch. About 25 protesters screaming "Palestinian checkpoint!" encircled Mr. Hecht, a Czechoslovakian-born Holocaust survivor, as he attempted to enter the Hall Building. Several protesters pushed him against a wall, spitting on him and kicking his ankles.")
"Violent protests force cancellation of Netanyahu speech" (AP/Haaretz, 2002/09/09)
"A crowd of chanting protesters waving Palestinian flags forced the cancellation of a speech Monday by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and clashed with police. Scores of demonstrators, some wearing keffiyehs, stormed the Concordia University building in downtown Montreal where Netanyahu was scheduled to speak. They threw chairs and smashed windows when police tried to make them leave, and police responded with tear gas. There were no immediate reports of injuries, and at least one demonstrator was seen being taken into police custody. Shortly after the incident, a visibly tense Netanyahu blasted the protesters accusing them of supporting terrorism. "They're supporting Saddam Hussein, they're supporting (Yasser) Arafat, they're supporting (Osama) bin Laden," he told reporters.""Siemens retreats over Nazi name" (BBC News, 2002/09/05)
Can you imagine a gas oven named "Zyklon"? Siemens, of all companies, apparently could: "German engineering giant Siemens has hastily abandoned plans to register the trademark "Zyklon", the same name as the Zyklon B poison gas used in Nazi extermination camps, BBC News Online has learnt. A year ago, Bosch Siemens Hausgeraete (BSH), the firm's consumer products joint venture, filed two applications with the US Patent & Trademark Office for the Zyklon name across a range of home products, including gas ovens. Jewish groups have condemned the move, in particular because Siemens used slave labour during the Nazi period."
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