Jordanian "human rights" hero claims there is no Arab antisemitism

Toujan al-Faisal was the first woman elected to Jordan's parliament. Her criticisms of Islamic fundamentalists have gotten her into trouble, and later her criticisms of the Jordanian government landed her in jail. 

Faisal just wrote an article against the Biden administration accepting the "Zionist" IHRA definition of antisemitism, in which she denies that there was ever any Arab antisemitism, claims that Palestinians are more victims of antisemitism than Jews, and says that the Jewish claim to Israel is practically nonexistent.

First she does what lots of antisemites do - pretend that the definition of antisemitism is being against Semites. "Neither Israel nor world Zionism represent Semitism as a race. The Arabs are more Semitic than they are."

She then goes into alternate history fantasy:

There is no ongoing persecution of the Jews anywhere in the world now. In fact, there was no Arab hostility to Judaism when ships loaded with Jewish refugees were unloaded on the shores of Palestine during World War II, but rather sympathy and hospitality from Palestinians and Arabs, until the purpose of bringing them became clear. Until then, there is no Palestinian or Arab discrimination mentioned against Jews or Judaism.

With a stroke of a pen, al-Faisal has erased hundreds of years of Arab and Muslim persecution of Jews that has been widely documented. The 1921, 1929 and 1936 riots aimed at Jews in Palestine have disappeared. The Arab demands for the British to end all Jewish immigration ahead of and during the Holocaust - never happened. 

There are no longer any demands that have political support for the deportation of these people from all of Palestine.

Who made those demands, again? And while those demands aren't popular any more, it is because Israel has gained strength and it is not realistic anymore, not because Arabs suddenly lost the desire to expel all Jews from the land.

She goes on to say that Jews in Israel are engaging in racial discrimination against Arabs, a complete slander.

Faisal then says that if America doesn't oppose this fictional dissemination, then America will become irrelevant in the Middle East. OK. 

Of course she doesn't acknowledge that Arab nations are accepting Israel.

She then goes on to say that there is more "anti-Palestinianism" in the world than antisemitism: 

All the descriptions of the old and new ethnic and historical rights and grievances in describing the Jews presented through IHRA apply more precisely to the Palestinians as a people that has been displaced from their historical land and even exterminated, which is still continuing.

As usual, the heroes of the "human rights" community don't think Jews have any human rights. 

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