Muslim Anti-Semitism

John R. Houk
© March 4, 2010

Anti-Semitism is a word that paints a picture of racism. It is an experience Jews have experienced from time immemorial. The approximately SIX MILLION Jews murdered in Hitler’s Nazi genocide is only unique in the terms of the sheer number of Jews massacred methodically in a relatively short period of time.

Ever since the last Diaspora of Jews courtesy of the Roman Empire, the Chosen People have been harassed. Jews went all over the place in that Diaspora and a large chunk settled into what is today Europe. European anti-Semitism is notoriously legendary from the eastern portions of European Russia to the west coast part of Europe of Spain, France and Britain as well as all European nations in between.

The nadir of European anti-Semitism is undoubtedly the Nazi Holocaust. Yet even before the Holocaust there was guilt over anti-Semitism. Initial British influence momentarily hooked up with the European Zionist movement. Thus as WWI neared its end the Balfour Declaration assured Jews that a national homeland would be established in their pre-Diaspora ancestral Land. After WWI the British and French began carving Arab portions of the defeated Islamic Ottoman Empire (Turkey).

After Britain began to manage its portion of the defeated Islamic Ottoman Empire, the newly formed League of Nations provided a British Mandate of the part of the Levant known as Palestine. There were other Middle Eastern Mandates of which became independent Arab nations. The Palestine Mandate certainly had a majority of Muslims in its area; nonetheless there was also a Jewish presence maintained even after the Diaspora.

The European Zionist Movement began to slowly support the immigration of Jews to pre-WWI Ottoman Empire. After the Balfour Declaration and the end of WWI Jewish immigration back home (aliyah) increased.

The influx of European Jews also meant the arrival of the expertise European industrial and modern farming techniques. The Ottoman Empire had pretty allowed the area to be known as the Palestine Mandate to become barren and worthless land. The innovation of European Jews reclaimed the land and made it productive. The result of this also meant a better standard of living for Arabs.

It is my opinion that modern techniques of management and reclamation turned the land into a very habitable place to live. It is also my opinion that Islamic Supremacist Arabs began to develop a sense of anger when non-Muslims were making the bucks. Large portions of the Palestinian workforce were Arabs from far away who began to resent the prosperity of Western Jews. After WWI the Muslim Arabs began to develop a sense of nationalism. It did not help that the post-WWI Middle East was carved into multiple Arab nations rather than one national Arab government. I am guessing the old European empire thinking of economic exploitation combined with the tribal nature of the medieval-like Middle East made it easier to carve and manage multiple Arab nations rather than one Arab nation. In any event the Arabs began to embrace anti-Semitism on a level of passionate hatred.

Between WWI and WWII Arab nationalism began to spark Islamic revivalism reminiscent of long past Islamic Supremacist jihadism, movements began that called for a return to Islamic purity. Islamic purity is indicative of the primary hero of Islam as the example of purity – Pseudo-Prophet Mohammed (which is why I often use the politically incorrect term of Mohammedanism).

Mohammed was NOT a nice guy to people who disagreed with him or got in the way of spreading his theo-political cult. The Quran might say “there is no compulsion in Islam” but Quranic, Hadith and Sira literature demonstrates the words did not match the action.

As far as prospering Jews were concerned in the Palestine Mandate, Jew-hatred was preached by a Jerusalem Grand Mufti al-Husseini. In fact al-Husseini began to be an admirer of a German-European known as Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Al-Husseini’s admiration of Hitler was not because the Nazi racist was a Muslim. Kafir Hitler hated Jews and felt their extermination would better his concept of the Arian Master Race. Al-Husseini shared the Jew extermination passion.

After al-Husseini inspired a few Arab revolts against the British Mandate in Palestine his status of unpopularity with the British eventually landed him in Hitler’s lair. The two could not have trusted each other. Hitler was a German Arian Master Race kind-of-guy and al-Husseini was an Islamic Supremacist kind-of-guy. Whatever there differences were they hooked up for the goal of Jewish extermination. Hitler even sent al-Husseini to the Muslim portions of the Balkan States to recruit Muslim-Europeans into the infamous SS to aid in the goal of Jewish extermination.

These are the early seeds of Jew-hatred planted among Arabs were would adopt the name of Palestinian. This Islamic Palestinian hatred of Jews is so prevalent among Muslims that those that have migrated as students and immigrants to the USA have brought their anti-Semitism with them.

In the America that was established as a nation of Freedom defined as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; anti-Semitism has been re-awakened. America’s university campuses have become a hot-bed of Muslim propaganda against Israel and Jews. Can you imagine that? America’s institutions of higher learning have become a platform to spread Jewish-Israel hatred. The propaganda campaign has been so effective that an incredible number of American Leftists have jumped on the hate Israel bandwagon. Universities even invite and sanction anti-Semitic speakers of Muslim-American origin and Middle Eastern Muslims from abroad. These hate-Israel Muslims mean they are pro-Palestinian Islamic terrorists. Islamic terrorists wish to be a part of another Jewish Holocaust by eradicating Israel and every Jew living there.

Did you get that? IT IS IN AMERICA!

I came across a website promoting a film that exposes anti-Semitism on American campuses. The film is called “Crossing the Line: The Intifada comes to Campus.” You can view an excerpt of the exposé HERE.



Below is a rough written content of the film. Be prepared to be outraged.

JRH 3/4/10
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Crossing the Line Viewing Guide

CampusIntifada.com
Producer: Raphael Shore
Director: Wayne Kopping

Shaping the World

College is a time for social action, student protest and the formulation of ideas and worldviews; a time to broaden one’s mind and for students to begin to shape the world they live in. In North America, college students have been instrumental in some of the biggest protest movements of the 20th Century, including the fight to end the Vietnam War, Women’s Rights and the Civil Rights Movement. Today, the activism continues with students fighting against the genocides in Tibet and Darfur and the war in Iraq.

Anti-Israel or Anti-Semitic?

There is one issue that seems to evoke more hostility then any other - Israel. Israel’s Operation Cast Lead at the close of 2008 evoked feelings of resentment and hatred from people throughout the world. There was something “different” about the protests that this war sparked as the line between anti-Israel policy and anti-Semitism became blurred. These protests weren’t just against Israel but also against the Jewish People. Around the world, synagogues and Jewish graves were desecrated and anti-Semitic chants were shouted at protests – even on the streets of America.

Bringing the War to Campus

The anti-Israel hostility that had been raging for years on American campuses came to a head during Operation Cast Lead, whereby the situation on North American campuses deteriorated dramatically. Pro-Palestinian groups held vehement anti-Israel protests along with graphic outdoor theater performances demonstrating the perceived brutality of Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians.

In the Classroom

Instead of offering fair and objective views of the Middle East conflict, some professors are leading the charge against Israel, often taking advantage of their positions to express pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel views on campus. When this happens, students receive a one-sided and biased view of the conflict. In this scenario, many Jewish students feel uncomfortable in the classroom and are scared to express their views on the Middle East conflict.

Anti-Semitic Attacks

In recent years, there have been numerous incidents on college campuses during which Jewish property was desecrated and Jewish students were assaulted. For example, in February 2008, four Temple University students used anti-Semitic language and assaulted two Jewish males, severely injuring one of them. In April 2009, a swastika was found painted on a Jewish fraternity house at the University of Florida.

"3D Test" of Anti-Semitism

Israeli politician Natan Sharansky uses the “3D Test” to help distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism. Sharansky identifies three categories: de-legitimization, double standard and demonization.

De-legitimize

This refers to the argument made that Israel doesn’t meet the requirements of a legitimate state and therefore should not exist. Rather than addressing the particular issues at hand, there is a call for a destruction of the State of Israel.

Double standard

This is when criticism of Israel is applied selectively. Although other countries can be criticized for human rights violations during times of war, the finger is continuously pointed at Israel and often exaggerated. Little attention is given to the atrocities committed by other countries.

Demonize

Israel is accused of behaving like a demon and its actions are blown out of proportion. For example, comparisons are made between Israelis and Nazis and between Palestinian refugee camps and Auschwitz.

Lies, Half-truths and Distortions

On American college campuses, many pro-Palestinian activists use unverified news stories and misleading information about the facts on the ground. One example of this is that during Operation Cast Lead, college students put forward the unverified story that Israel had hit a UN school in Gaza. Later reports proved that mortar shells fell in the street near the compound, and not on the compound itself. However, by that time, the damage had already been done as many students had already formed their opinions based on the original misinformation.

Follow the Money

Over the last twenty years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into American universities by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries which are hostile to Israel’s very existence, with the specific goal of influencing students’ views on the Middle East and Israel. The education that students in Middle Eastern departments are receiving is likely to be unbalanced and anti-Israel as a result of this direct line of funding.

The Muslim Student Association

The MSA organizes anti-Israel events on campus, often sponsoring events with radical speakers that support violence and suicide bombings. The MSA has foundational ties to the Muslim brotherhood, a group created with the explicit goal of implementing Sharia Law across the world. The MSA often works to advance one of the Brotherhood’s goals by advocating for the destruction of Israel.

Not Just about Israel

Another of The Muslim Brotherhood’s aims is to destabilize the West. They believe in a “grand Jihad,” claiming that Western civilization needs to eliminated from within. The Brotherhood is not just fighting against Israel, but also against America and western countries that promote democratic values.

What should Jewish students do?

Jews have a historical connection to Israel. Jews have been living in Israel continuously for thousands of years, never leaving Israel voluntarily. Jewish students should be proud of Israel’s achievements over the past 61 years, including the production of numerous technologies that are advancing the world. It is important for Jews to educate themselves, and be proactive on campus, to express their Jewish views proudly, show solidarity with Israel, and correct misinformation campaigns launched by opponents of the Jewish State.
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Muslim Anti-Semitism
John R. Houk
© March 4, 2010
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Crossing the Line Viewing Guide
Imagination Productions © 2010

BBC: Denying Jewish Jerusalem

Honest Reporting exposes the BBC’s anti-Israel bias. The BBC has put together a documentary which vilifies Israel’s position on Jerusalem, specifically the Eastern portion of Jerusalem formerly occupied by Jordan at the end of the Israel/Arab war of 1948 in which Arab nations sought to prevent the emergence of an independent sovereign Jewish nation which is known as Israel. The BBC paints a picture of victimhood to Arab Muslims living in the Eastern portion of Jerusalem while failing to report the anti-Jewish violence from Arabs toward Jews residing in East Jerusalem. In fact historically the BBC fails to mention when Jordan occupied East Jerusalem, the vibrant Jewish population living there was expelled.

But I get ahead of myself. Read the Honest Reporting exposé.

JRH 1/21/10
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BBC: Denying Jewish Jerusalem
The BBC's flagship documentary distorts Jewish history and rights to Jerusalem while promoting a one-sided and biased agenda.

Honest Reporting
20 January 2010

On 18 January, the BBC's flagship documentary program, Panorama, focused on tensions in the area of eastern Jerusalem adjacent to the Old City.

Any pretence at balance is thrown out of the window as reporter Jane Corbin makes it clear that, under the BBC's own interpretation of international law, anything that Israel does in that part of the city is illegal, setting the tone for the entire 30 minute program.

Thus, Israelis are presented as usurpers of Palestinian rights and property in eastern Jerusalem in a one-sided piece of agitprop. As analyst Robin Shepherd writes:

Rarely will you get a clearer insight into the flagrant institutional bias inside the world's most powerful media outlet than this. The slipperiness of the tactics employed, the unabashed censorship of vital historical context, and the blatant pursuit of a political agenda constituted a lesson in the techniques of modern day propaganda. It was something to behold.

Here we examine some of the assumptions, claims and biases that underpin this edition of Panorama.

This edition of Panorama is available to view on YouTube in three parts. Click below to view Part 1 and here to view Parts 2 and 3.

Denying Jewish Rights to Jerusalem

The BBC's institutional anti-Israel bias often manifests itself not in what is broadcast but what is left out. Panorama is no different. The BBC reports events as though Jewish history in Jerusalem begins in 1948, thus omitting thousands of years of Jewish attachment to the city, including those areas of eastern Jerusalem that are the subject of Panorama's investigation.

The only time that the eastern part of Jerusalem was exclusively Arab was between 1949 and 1967, and that was because Jordan occupied the area and forcibly expelled all the Jews.

As Mitchell Bard makes clear, before 1865, the entire population of Jerusalem lived behind the Old City walls (what today would be considered part of the eastern part of the city). Later, the city began to expand beyond the walls because of population growth, and both Jews and Arabs began to build in new areas of the city.

By the time of partition, a thriving Jewish community was living in the eastern part of Jerusalem, an area that included the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. This area of the city also contains many sites of importance to the Jewish religion, including the City of David, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. In addition, major institutions like Hebrew University and the original Hadassah Hospital are on Mount Scopus — in eastern Jerusalem.

Palestinian House Demolitions

Corbin's tone gives the impression that she just so happens to be strolling through eastern Jerusalem before coming across Israeli authorities carrying out a house demolition almost as if this is a daily occurrence. She disingenuously pulls a supposed list of dozens more demolitions scheduled to take place. Viewers are treated to emotive scenes and Palestinian claims that such demolitions are driven by "racism" and "ethnic cleansing" while Jewish residents of Jerusalem are not subjected to similar demolition orders.

As human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner found in his research, illegal building by Palestinians has reached epidemic proportions while in the Jewish neighborhoods, illegal construction typically takes the form of additions to existing legal structures - such as closing a balcony or hollowing out under a building to create an extra room. In the Arab sector, however, illegal construction often takes the form of entire multi-floor buildings with 4 to 25 living units, built with the financial assistance of the Palestinian Authority on land that is not owned by the builder.

In addition:

• The same procedures for administrative demolition orders apply to both Jews and Arabs in all parts of the city, as a final backstop to remove structures built illegally on roadbeds or land designated for schools, clinics, and the like.

• Despite frequent accusations that the city's planning policy seeks to "Judaize" Jerusalem, the Arab population of the city has increased since 1967 from 27% to 32%. Moreover, since 1967 new Arab construction has outpaced Jewish construction.

The Hanoun Family Eviction

The eviction of the Hanouns has become something of a cause célèbre with the family camped in the street outside of their previous home making for a compelling media story and propaganda tool. Once again, the BBC does its best to portray the Palestinians as victims of Israeli malice.

However, the Hanoun case is not quite so simple having been subject to legal activity dating back decades. After 1948 the neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Shimon HaTzadik came under Jordanian control and the Jewish-owned land was handed over to the Jordanian Custodian of Enemy Property. In the mid-1950s the Jordanian government settled Arabs there. They took over the homes of the Jews and paid rent to the Jordanian Custodian.

Although a Jewish institutional presence has been established in the area in the form of Israeli governmental offices and services, Jewish groups have sought to establish a residential presence as well. This is being done through property and land acquisitions, and by judicial means. To date, this activity has achieved a residential presence of no more than ten families who are living in a small part of the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood from which Jews had been evicted in 1948.

There are dozens of pending court cases and legal proceedings seeking to remove Arab tenants on the grounds that they have not been paying rent to the rightful owners - the Committee of the Sephardic Community and the Ashkenazi Assembly of Israel, who purchased the land in the second part of the nineteenth century. In some of these cases, eviction notices have been issued, although the Israel Police has delayed the actual evictions due to international pressure.

After 1967, control over Jewish-owned property in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood that had been seized by Arabs was transferred from the Jordanian Custodian of Enemy Property to the Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property. In 1972 the Israeli Custodian released the land back to its owners (the Committee of the Sephardic Community and the Ashkenazi Assembly of Israel). In 1988 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the 28 Arab families living on the premises enjoy the status of "Protected Residents," but that the ownership of the land belongs to the two Jewish organizations.

Ten years later, in 1998, Jews entered deserted houses in the neighborhood. At the same time, a slow process of evicting Arab families who apparently refused to pay rent to the two Jewish organizations was begun.

Indeed, as both the New York Times and Guardian wrote, the Hanouns had refused to pay rent for years and thus eviction orders were served.

For more on this issue see this JPost Analysis: Arabs, Jews don't have equal rights to recover pre-1948 properties.

A Shooting in Silwan

Jane Corbin makes a big deal out of the fact that some of the Jews living in eastern Jerusalem are armed. As if to illustrate the apparent threat that this poses to the Arab residents of the area, she interviews the victim of a shooting incident that took place in September 2009 involving a Jewish gunman. Operating under standard BBC procedures, viewers are treated to scenes of crying children and a story of suffering. There is no interview with any Israeli spokespeople regarding the incident. While it is not in dispute that the Palestinian was shot, the BBC relies solely on his testimony without any Israeli response.

Had Corbin been concerned with balance or accuracy, she could have contacted the Israel Police, something that HonestReporting did. Police Foreign Press Spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld explained:

Upon arriving at the scene, a police investigation was opened and a suspect was immediately detained for questioning for being involved in the incident.

The suspect a twenty year old man said in his statement that he had been surrounded by six Arabs inside the neighborhood and then was attacked by them. In an act of self defense only and after being surrounded he had used his weapon.

Unfortunately after the incident local Arab residents rioted in the neighborhood and police had to call in extra units who quickly maintained the situation and prevented any further rioting.

As Rosenfeld points out, this was one isolated incident that could have taken place in any of the neighborhoods in Jerusalem both Jewish or Arab.

Contrary to the impression given by the BBC, it is, in fact, Jewish residents of Jerusalem who have far more to fear from their Arab neighbors. While the incident described above is remarkably rare, not so rare were the suicide bombings, stabbings and even bulldozer attacks that have been carried out by Palestinian terrorists residing in eastern Jerusalem.

The armed guards and security in the area is necessary to protect not only Jews but also Jewish holy sites from potential Arab extremists.

Foreign Jews Changing Jerusalem's Demographics

Nadav Shragai writes that Jews from abroad are not the only ones buying property in Jerusalem. Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian millionaire from Nablus who holds American citizenship, is planning to purchase property 900 meters from the Teddy Kollek Stadium, not far from Jerusalem's Malha shopping mall. His investment company is planning to build 150 housing units next to Beit Safafa, according to company chairman Samir Halayla. Until 1967, Beit Safafa was an Arab village south of Jerusalem divided between Israel and Jordan. After the war it became an area where Jews and Arabs lived together, generally as good neighbors.

The Gulf States, the PLO, and Palestinian millionaires such as al-Masri and the late Abd al-Majid Shuman have all invested funds to purchase property and support construction for Palestinian Arabs. The Jerusalem Treasury Fund affiliated with the Jerusalem Committee headed by King Hassan of Morocco is also active. The Jerusalem Foundation for Development and Investment was founded in Jordan, and there are several similar funds and foundations in Saudi Arabia.23 Foreign donations from Qatar were also involved in the construction of 58 housing units recently completed in Beit Hanina under the auspices of the Arab teachers' association.

On July 19, 2009, Yuval Diskin, head of the Israel Security Agency, reported to the Israeli government on the extensive efforts of the Palestinian Authority and its security apparatuses to prevent Palestinian land from being sold to Jews, especially in eastern Jerusalem.

Regardless of these ongoing struggles, the State of Israel does not limit or forbid the purchase or sale of property or land within Jerusalem, which is under Israeli law, whether the individuals involved are Jews or Arabs.

Archaeology in the Hands of "Right-Wing" Groups

The BBC claims that right-wing Jewish groups have been left responsible for politically sensitive archaeological sites in eastern Jerusalem. In fact, all archaeological work in Jerusalem is carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority, an independent government body with a sterling international reputation.

BBC: Failing to Reflect Reality

Robin Shepherd, who picks up many other flaws in BBC's Panorama, concludes:

Well, you get the picture. Obviously the issue of Jerusalem excites passions inside Israel and outside it. Reasonable people can disagree on it. There are many shades of opinion to be assessed. And there is no reason why a BBC documentary should not reflect that. The problem is that the documentary does not reflect that reality at all.

Every Jewish step in East Jerusalem is presented as wrong and dangerous. All the important context has been removed. A clear ideological agenda has been pushed at the expense of basic standards of fair reporting.

Welcome to the world of the BBC. And welcome to yet another illustration of the slippery path to the delegitimisation of the world's only Jewish state.

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You can send your comments to the BBC Complaints website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/ (for detailed instructions on how to navigate the BBC Complaints website, click here).

©2008 (sic) HonestReporting

A Mass Grave NO MORE

Ari Bussel writes with a frankness and harshness that righteous anger often produces when evil has perpetrated a deed. The evil deed was a typical day in Islamic terrorism: the murder of the innocent to strike fear to get a prize that is undeserved.

Be sure to read “A Mass Grave NO MORE”.

JRH 12/29/09