Expressions of Anti-Semitism in the Arab Press
(November 2000)
The events in the Territories and in Israel
have been the basis for a wave of anti-Semitic
publications in Egypt. The most
severe of all the publications is a detailed article in the
establishment Al-Aharam newspaper giving the 'historical'
background of the blood libel tradition while accusing Israel of
using the blood of Palestinian children to bake matzos up to the
present time (see detail in paragraph 5). Although the Egyptian press
has a long history of anti-Semitic publications, this article is
unusual in its intensity. Anti-Semitic articles were also published
in Jordan following the events. In
Syria many anti-Semitic articles
were published, even before the outbreak of the events.
Many of the propaganda articles deal with denial
of the Holocaust, its 'exploitation' by Zionism,
and a comparison of Zionism and Israel to Nazism.
- Egypt
- Syria
- Jordan
- Morocco
On 13 October, the editor-in-chief of the
establishment daily 'Al-Aharam' published that the 'Israel's barbaric
policy against the Palestinians surpassed the policy of the Nazis in
the Second World War and emphasized the extent of racism in Israel's
policy and its inability to shake off the principles of repression,
expansionism and aggression'. In the 14 October edition of 'Akbar
Al-Yom', Ibrahim Saadeh wrote that it makes no sense now to talk
about the chances for making peace with the Nazi Zionist country
called Israel.
In the 23 October Internet edition of 'Al-Aharam',
Dr. Suleiman Abd Al-Naam wrote in an article that 'the current Arab
wrath towards the Nazi measures taken by Israel in occupied Palestine
are a rare historic opportunity for an Arab awakening and the
development of a new Arab awareness'. In his article he also calls
for reviving the Arab boycott of Israel and modernizing it. 'This
effective and clever boycott is the only appropriate reaction to
Israel's barbarity and arrogance'.
Aadel Hamuda wrote an article in the 28 October
edition of 'Al-Aharam' which is unusual in its severity and revives
the traditional blood libels. Entitled, 'Jewish Matzo Which Is Made
from Arab Blood', it says: 'Every time I see the stone children in
Palestine bleeding, I recall my grandfather who used to gather the
neighbourhood children in the garden of his home in Alexandria and
tell them the story of the Jew who slaughtered a child and prepared
from his blood the Passover matzo and afterwards ate it with great
appetite. At the time I thought that this story was just a fairy tale
but when I grew up I discovered that the story of the Jewish matzo
made of blood was a true story which actually happened and it is
documented in the Sharia' court in Aleppo, Hamat and Damascus from
1840. The amazing thing is that the rabbis who committed this
terrible crime felt no remorse and the explanation for this is in the
Talmud which describes the souls of non-Jews as satanic souls similar
to those of animals. They believe that non-Jews are compared to dogs
and donkeys and their lives have no value and it is therefore
permitted to slaughter them, rape their women and despise them and
their possessions are even public property. All this explains the
scenes we see on television where soldiers of the Israeli occupation
kill children without mercy and chew gum at the same time, as if they
were on an excursion. The reason for this is that deep in their heart
they believe that, according to what it says in the Talmud, they are
not killing human beings but animals. He continues and says that the
police reports in many of the Palestinian territories have documented
the disappearance of Arab children whose bodies were later found
dismembered and without a single drop of blood in them. It is quite
likely that their blood was mixed with flour of the Jewish radicals.
This is how the dough is made from which they bake the matzos that
they eat on the Passover holiday.
In an additional article published in 'Al-Aharam'
on 2 November, Al-Sid Yassin writes that Israel is today a colonial
imperialist state. In its aggressive policy towards the Palestinian
people and the massacres it conducts against its sons it is truly an
unsuccessful 'revived production' of the Nazi model: a racist
ideology, which is Zionism, a country which builds its strategy on
the basis of continued expansion at the expense of the Palestinian
people and the Arab nations.
On 12 October, the establishment weekly 'Al-Aharam
Weekly' (published in English) printed a caricature showing Prime
Minister Barak shooting with pistols in both hands, one directed at
the boy Muhammad Al-Dura, who is taking refuge behind his father.
Behind Prime Minister Barak is Knesset Member Sharon, drawn like a
bully, with a grenade in his hand ready to be thrown. Behind this is
the proud figure of Hitler who makes the Nazi salute.
On 13 July, 'Tasrin' published an article accusing
Israel of abusing the use of the Holocaust
and asks how long the West will continue seeing things in one
perspective, which is Israel's perspective. The latter has for fifty
years exploited the lie of the Nazi Holocaust in order to destroy
every author or historian who tries to examine the matter of the
Holocaust from a scientific and objective point of view which is
supported by documents. Israel pours out its wrath and the wrath of
its supporters on such historians. This is to such an extent that the
accusation of anti-Semitism is compared to a monster which causes
every author to think carefully before he stretches out his hand to
delve into the 'hornet's nest'.
Another article published in 'Tasrin' on 10 August
says 'Zionism is the ugliest side of
racism. The accusing racist declarations of the Zionist Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef are part of the extreme racist stands the Zionist
rabbis take against the Arabs and Islam. The stands of the Zionist
rabbis were meant to justify the long series of racist actions,
killing, expulsion, mass slaughter, murder of children and organized
destruction carried out by the Zionist gangs in the forties and
fifties of the twentieth century. The army of Zionist aggression has
followed in the footsteps of these gangs in later years by fulfilling
its aggressive role against the Arab nation. This is in addition to
the Zionist intelligence apparatuses which killed and tortured
thousands of Arabs in the occupied Arab countries and outside of
them.
In the 'Syria Times' of 4 September an article
appeared written by Muhammad Daoud entitled 'The Holocaust Again??!'
According to him, one of the famous myths is the 'so-called'
Holocaust. Since the creation of the world the Jews have been living
on this myth, and blackmail the world by using it. Under this
pretext, the Palestinian people has been exposed to the inhuman
behavior of the Israelis towards them. The Holocaust exists only in
the minds of the terrorist Yitzhak
Shamir, Ovadia Yosef and
others. Chaim Weizmann, Moshe
Sharett, David Ben Gurion,
Yitzhak Shamir and others cooperated with the Nazis. Among the
Zionist Jewish leaders there were those who helped send Jews from
Czechoslovakia to the ghettoes. Adolf
Eichmann was among the most important friends of the Jews. The
writer of the article quotes other Holocaust denying historians who
claim that the Germans burned bodies in the camps not as a means of
destruction but to prevent the spread of diseases. The gas chambers
were used for disinfecting clothing and personal affects. They also
used the gas chambers to disinfect the clothes of German soldiers who
returned from the Russian front. The gas chambers were never used to
kill Jews. The writer of the article claims that the gas chambers
exist only in the mind of the terrorist 'snake' Ovadia Yosef.
In another article published on 4 September in the
'Syria Times', Patricia Wickham-Samara writes under the title 'The
Master Race' that during the years before and during the Second World
War, Zionism and Nazism were connected with each other. Zionists with
power financed Nazi Germany led by Hitler with millions of dollars�
the goal of the Nazis was to control the world by means of the master
race. The Zionists also advocate this goal, with 'control' their key
word. Now that the U.S. elections are approaching, it is impossible
not to wonder what the results will be if Al Gore wins and Joseph
Lieberman will be vice president. The two - both of whom are of
Jewish origin � will rule over the strongest country in the world.
The question is, however, who will have the last word?
In the magazine of the Arab Writers Association,
'Al-Usbua' Al-Arabi', which was published on 14 October at the
Association's Internet Site, an article appeared by Abd Al-Rahman
Ghanim which said that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef described the Holocaust
victims, which the Zionists falsely claim, and who number six
million, as 'the reincarnated souls of Jewish sinners whom God chose
to die in order to redeem the people of Israel'. The Zionist Jews
have not learned the lessons of the 'Holocaust' (sic). They have
rather exploited the 'Holocaust' in a direction which could lead them
to a greater disaster. Maybe Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's attempt to explain
the Holocaust will help the Jews and help him understand the fact
that only a just and lasting peace can save the Jews from a fate
similar to that of the 'Holocaust', or even worse. Purification from
sins through the adoption of the values of justice is the only way to
receive forgiveness from the Creator for the crimes of aggression and
robbery, which can only bring down revenge on their perpetrators.
In an article which appeared in the 'Al-Ra'i'
newspaper on 13 November, Dr. Muhammad Al-Kasah wrote that it is more
than 50 years that Israel has been focusing on the Holocaust
during which, according to it, Hitler
put millions of Jews into crematoria but there is no proof that this
did happen. Garaudy wrote in his book 'The Zionist Myths' that Israel
exaggerates regarding the numbers. The Holocaust is what our people
have been experiencing since the beginning of the century and what
they have undergone until today in all parts of the land of
Palestine, Lebanon, the Golan, Jordan and Sinai. We do not forget the
cluster bombs and the daily massacres that do not differentiate
between a child and an old man. The Holocaust is of the Palestinian
people and Israel uses it to implement the scorched earth and
political assassination policy, it strikes and kills without mercy,
burns homes and carries out unprecedented racist actions. This policy
emphasizes Israeli barbarity against innocent people and children and
proves again and again its mentality and belief. The Arab memory
cannot forget the policy of murder and slaughter put into practice
since the occupation of Palestine and until today. If a country thus
executes a policy of murder and terror and tries to claim throughout
the world that it is the Arabs that perpetrate terrorism against it,
then there is a need for Arab decisions that will put Israel in its
place. The world should support these decisions, against the
arrogance, exploitation, murder and burning, and put on trial all the
Jewish criminals demanding that they pay compensation for the rivers
of blood they spilled in Palestine and in other places, like
compensation for the Nazi crematoria. How can one compare the myth of
the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Holocaust? Who will pay
compensation for the real Holocaust, which has already been going on
for a hundred years?
In another article in the 'Al-Ra'i' newspaper, of
15 November, Tareq Masarwa writes that in Europe there is much talk
of Christian-Jewish culture, but no such culture exists, since
Judaism is a religion that denies the others. The real culture is the
humane culture of Islam and Christianity, since Islam does not deny
other religions but rather integrates into them and complements them.
The Moroccan daily 'Al-Alam' wrote on 3 November
that the tomato seeds imported to Morocco from Israel contain
viruses. This is in order to harm the Moroccan tomato export market
against Israel. The accusations of introducing viruses into
agriculture have already appeared in the past.
Sources: Israeli Foreign Ministry |