Timestamp: 01 October 2023 @ 0715 Pacific
Nazi propaganda in the Arab world haunts us to this day.
Paul Schneider
Paul Schneider is an attorney, writer and member of the Board of Directors of the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI), an affiliate of B'nai B'rith International.
(September 26, 2023 / JNS)
In a television program this past July, Palestinian cleric Mahmoud al-Habbash asserted that Jews follow Satanism and "have left the path of humanity." Indeed, he claimed, Jews are Satan himself. In an earlier broadcast, Habbash had called Jews "creatures that Allah created in the form of humans. They are cursed descendants of apes and pigs." These gems and more have been documented by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Habbash also denies that Jews have any historical connection to the Land of Israel. He maintains, "There was no First Temple and no Second Temple, and there also will be no Third Temple." He has further claimed, "Israel's very existence contradicts international law. On what right do you bring people who have no connection to this land and plant them here?' Unfortunately, Habbash is not an outlier. He is the Supreme Shariah Judge of the Palestinian Authority and an advisor to P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas on religious affairs and Islamic relations. When he speaks, he speaks for the P.A.
Moreover, Abbas appears to agree with his antisemitic views. For example, in an Aug. 24 speech, Abbas said, "They say that Hitler killed the Jews for being Jews, and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews. Not true."
Instead, Abbas asserted, Hitler "fought" the Jews "because of their social role, and not their religion." This has been confirmed, Abbas said, by "Jewish authors."
Where did the Palestinian leadership's antisemitism come from?
The German political scientist and historian Matthias Kuntzel addresses that question in his important new book Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East.
Kuntzel "sets forth the methods used by Nazi Germany from 1937 onward to disseminate its antisemitism in the Middle East in the Arabic language and the role that this antisemitism would play 11 years later, when the Arab armies fell upon the newly founded Jewish state of Israel." He goes on to show that this Nazi-inspired antisemitism dominates Palestinian politics to this day.
He begins with a discussion of the Quranic roots of Islamic antisemitism. However, he claims that "the watershed" came in 1937, when a pamphlet entitled Islam and Judaism was published in Cairo. The pamphlet was attributed to Amin al-Husseini, the deposed grand mufti of Jerusalem, who would shortly become a Nazi collaborator.
"This document," Kuntzel writes, "might well be considered the founding text of Islamic antisemitism." He calls it "the first full presentation of the construct of a direct connection between Muhammad's clashes with the Jews in Medina and the contemporary conflict in Palestine."
Citing various statements from the Quran, Islam and Judaism portrayed Jews as "the most bitter foes of Islam." It ended with a call for genocide, quoting a hadith in which Muhammad says, "The day of judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. Then stones and trees will say: `O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"
As Kuntzel explains, this hadith was essentially dormant and "hardly ever mentioned in the mosques. Then, in August 1937, it was retrieved from oblivion and for the first time presented to a mass audience. Subsequently--and especially after the Six-Day War--it has gone on to become one of the most frequently cited hadiths of all." Indeed, in 1988, it made its way into the Hamas charter.
During World War II, the Nazis distributed Islam and Judaism throughout the Middle East. There, Kuntzel says, it "reached the literate elites of the Arab world. Nazi Germany, however, also wanted to arouse the Jew-hatred of the `Arab Street.' For this purpose, an Arabic short-range radio was the perfect instrument."
As historian Jeffrey Herf has documented in his groundbreaking book Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, this involved thousands of hours of radio broadcasts, produced by Husseini. The central theme of the broadcasts is captured in Husseini's repeated exhortation to "kill the Jews wherever you find them."
After the war, the Nazis fell out of favor almost everywhere, except in the Arab world. There, Nazi propaganda continued to shape the political climate. Moderate voices were silenced. Indeed, those who resisted Islamic antisemitism risked being assassinated. Thus, by 1948, no Arab leader could resist the ideology of Husseini and the Muslim Brotherhood and their desire for war against the Jews of then-Palestine.
As Kuntzel concludes, Nazi propaganda "had a huge impact on the Middle Eastern conflict and so on the Arab world as we have known it since 1948. And we can go further: the legacy of the Nazis' influence continues to affect us to this day." Indeed, the Palestinian leadership remains committed to that legacy.
Kuntzel adds, "Once, however, we accept the fact that Nazi propaganda made a crucial contribution to antisemitism in the region, then our view of the Middle Eastern conflict has to change. Because then it is not Jewish settlement blocks but Palestinian ideological blocks that present the biggest obstacle to a peace settlement."
Hopefully, Kuntzel's book will enjoy a wide readership.
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Source: https://www.jns.org/the-origins-of-palestinian-antisemitism/
Comment: 'Antisemitic Palestinian' is an oxymoron. Palestinians are a Semitic people, morons. How can they be anti-Semites? Answer: They can't.
It is not our intent to defend Mahmoud al-Habbash, Mahmoud Abbas, or Amin al-Husseini. we respect their right to free speech, however, and are confident that their opinions are based upon actual experiences that consequently shaped their perceptions of people who loudly and repeatedly insisted they were Jews.
(If it just takes one bad apple to ruin the whole barrel, the Jewish community has a lot of bad apples. Many of us think the whole barrel is rotten. The Jews who are careful are powerless. The Jews who are powerful are careless.)
No, it is our intention to point out the fundamental intellectual corruption involved in a group of non-Semitic people, some of whom speak a formerly dead Semitic language but who are themselves not Semites, to call a group of people whose geneology and language are Semitic in origin, "Anti-Semitic", or, as the JINOs would have it, "antisemitic".
Paul Schneider claims to be an attorney. We think this is part of the problem. It takes a certain amount of mental discipline to recognize that the legal fictions that one deals with in the courtroom are just that - fictions - and to not let this carelessness with what is true and what is a bald lie seep into one's relations with one's family and the public. We think Paul Schneider doesn't have what it takes.
We think Paul Schneider's years of arguing in court and in filings over subtle interpretations of words has left him intellectually crippled and unable to make his point without using emotionally loaded language.
We think every single reference to anti-Semitism in Mr Schneider's article can be replaced by a reference to anti-Zionism without damaging his article at all; in fact, it improves the article because now everyone can see what the fuck he is whining about - that people won't support his whiny claim that because some people he's related to learned to speak this dead language, Hebrew, he is, somehow, now a Hebrew, from the Middle East, with roots that go back thousands of years. He's not. He's a fucking poseur. He's a pale-skinned white boy who sunburns easily. They all are.
As we have pointed out elsewhere, this makes about as much sense as a person teaching themselves Latin and then declaring that because they speak Latin, they are now somehow Italian. They're not. Technically, they are borderline insane.
We think every single reference to Nazism can be replaced by a reference to Germanic culture without damaging the meaning of the article, too. We are really tired of overweight, pale white men who literally prey on boys and young men calling everyone who doesn't agree with them, Nazis.
We openly challenge these tedious and relentlessly self-promoting, Godless, self-described 'Jews' to write an article about their beloved Zionism without using the words 'antisemitic', 'antisemitism', 'antisemite', and 'Nazi'.
We wonder how much Schneider was paid to write a review of Kuntzel's book - and, by whom.
We look forward to the day when Schneider and his comrades learn to use dictionaries to make sure they are using words correctly instead of forcing dictionaries to change their definitions to conform to the infantile demands of the insecure and the mentally ill.