Monday, April 08, 2024
Elder of ZiyonI'm not sure why that is surprising. we've seen polls done in Arab countries where the percentage of Muslims who considered the massacre legitimate was at 88% but almost none of them thought Hamas did anything criminal.
And there is a rich history of Holocaust denial among Arabs and Muslims as well. A 2014 ADL survey found that among the (minority) of people in the Middle East who had heard about the Holocaust, 63% said it was a myth or exaggeration.
Arabs and Muslims deny any Jewish suffering in any context.
Just today, a retired Jordanian Brigadier General Aref Salim Alzaben wrote a bizarre article that cast doubt over the Kishinev pogrom of 1903.
Writing in Ammon News, Alzaben is angry that the Jewish Star newspaper in the New York area had republished part of Haim Nahman Bialik's 1904 poem 'In the city of slaughter' in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre.
He cannot see any comparison between the Kishinev pogrom that Bialik wrote about where Russians killed 49 Jews and raped a number of women, and October 7. To him, it is a slander that a Jewish newspaper would refer to a Russian pogrom that no Arabs were involved with.
But a stray phrase that Alzaben throws into the article shows the real Arab and Muslim mentality towards Jewish suffering: "the truth of that massacre was questioned by many international writers."
Who? Maybe some neo-Nazi blogger in his pajamas?
It doesn't matter - this Jordanian general finds it hard to believe that any Jews were massacred in Kishinev, one of the most documented pogroms of all time, so we can assume that he - and many others - deny any Jews were ever killed for being Jews.
It is all antisemitism that animates what facts they choose to believe and what not to believe.
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