The real root cause is, and always has been, Jew-hatred. @Amnesty doesn't combat it - it encourages it. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, January 24, 2025

The real root cause is, and always has been, Jew-hatred. @Amnesty doesn't combat it - it encourages it.

Amnesty USA tweeted a short slideshow in the wake of the ceasefire in Gaza. Here is one particularly disgusting slide:

The three examples they give are for Amnesty reports accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide.

To Amnesty, Jews are the ones really responsible for Hamas attacking on October 7.

Every time a group like Amnesty speaks about root causes, it is to justify Palestinian and Arab attacks on Jews. They never say that the "root cause" of Israeli defensive actions is a Palestinian action. Their interest in history always only goes back to some Jewish "root cause" and not a second beforehand.

On November 8, 1913, the Filastin newspaper published a poem by Sheikh Sulayman al-Taji Faruqi called "The Zionist Menace" which was both antisemitic and anti-Ottoman. The poem caused the Ottoman authorities to shut down the paper for a time.

Here, possibly for the first time in English, is a translation of the poem. The first half is addressed to Jews, and the rest to the head of the Ottoman Empire.

Sons of gold, time has exposed your deception,
For we are not ones to abandon our homelands through deceit.
You have unleashed your arrogance, but within us remains
A spirit that declares: we shall act and respond.

The most insignificant of nations, without a true identity,
Now dares to bargain with us over our land—how could we allow this?
The Jews—oh, how well we know the ways of the Jews,
For they are a people united in misguidance.

Our laws—what has struck you that you do not heed them?
Do you not see that aiding the motherland requires uprooting you?
Our judgments are clear: leave this world and take refuge elsewhere.
But after this day, patience has no place.

You have obeyed the enemies in their schemes against us—
But will all of you now yield and retreat?
This is the terrible danger of those who oppose us.
Have you not seen how the eye of the homeland is torn apart,
Except to send a message to the rulers:
That the heart of the courageous shall falter and be severed?

If they do not give leadership its due right,
Then its enemies shall rise and settle in their place.
And you, O Commander of the Faithful, show kindness
To us, for we are the shield of the Caliphate.

And lands that God has blessed around them,
And a people who are the pride of all religions,
Are weakened by the frailty you embody—
Unless they fall in ruin and are utterly destroyed.

Does it please you, O successful one, that our lands
Are sold and snatched away while witnesses remain?

It is filled with antisemitic imagery, of rich Jews who aren't a real people anyway and who are hated by Muslims for centuries. It calls for ethnically cleansing Jews from the region.

This is before "apartheid," before "occupation," before the "nakba," before Balfour. Anyone who looks at root causes must conclude that the root cause is Arab antisemitism.

You might argue that this was a single poem in a single newspaper and not representative of Arab feelings towards Jews.

So let us look at the 1921 Jaffa riots. The British Haycraft Commission wrote a report on the 1921 riots where Arabs killed dozens of Jews in Jaffa and elsewhere, which was sparked by a May Day demonstration by a small number of Jewish communists.

Ironically, the communists supported Arab workers as much as Jews; their chants during the demonstration included "Long live the international solidarity of the Jewish and Arab proletariat!"

The commission did not blame the riots on the demonstration. They said they fully expect the Arabs to attack Jews in a situation like that. Here, however, the Arabs turned it into a "race conflict" - meaning, attacking Jews as Jews. It wasn't self-defense and it wasn't a reaction, it wasn't aimed at only the demonstrators. It was the deliberate attacking of Jews, including murdering children and raping women, sadistically splitting open Jewish skulls. One of their first targets was the "Immigration House" where a hundred Jewish men, women and children lived. Arab policemen also joined in the attacks on Jews, shooting at and killing Jews in the building. his was followed by "an orgy of pillage" of Jewish homes and shops.

In many ways, it was a miniature October 7.

The commission noted that the violence towards Jews was not at all proportionate to this supposed excuse of an illegal gathering. It was a "race conflict" - meaning, attacks on Jews because they are Jews. Unlike Amnesty, they didn't automatically blame the Jews for every violent act by the Arabs.

Amnesty keeps blaming Jews as the "root cause" for Arab outrages, but when you go back through the "cycle of violence," the first attackers are always Arabs towards Jews. The Amnesty slide shown above proves that it is Amnesty's own antisemitism that pours gasoline on the fires of Arab Jew-hatred.

Another point worth mentioning is that the Arabs in 1921 were often motivated to kill by unfounded rumors of Jews attacking Arabs and doing heinous crimes. This is what prompted them to attack Hadera and Petah Tikva in the days after the May 1 attacks. The British investigators found that the rumors were baseless. Compare that to today where researchers from NGOs and the media are likely to believe anything Hamas says and not believe the Jews; they themselves are fueling the terrorism by spreading the false rumors and Hamas statements as truth. Blatant lies get laundered through UN agencies and become presumed truth and justifications for murder.

Despite the fact that Amnesty claims to be against antisemitism, and despite the tsunami of antisemitic incitement published today in Arabic media that would make Sheikh Faruqi, blush, Amnesty has not written a word about Arab Jew-hatred which is the real root cause of the conflict and of Arab violence. Amnesty's own contempt of Jews poisons its own analyses.

The 1921 riots and 1913 poetic incitement came decades before "apartheid" and "genocide" and "occupation" and "nakba." How can anyone not infected with antisemitism blame Jews as the "root cause" of the violence?

Amnesty is a sick joke. it doesn't want to talk about root causes. it wants to ensure that every dead or kidnapped or raped Jew is blamed on Jews themselves.