Friday, February 28, 2025
Elder of Ziyon
It is no secret that Al Jazeera uses its English media to promote a much different narrative than it does in Arabic. In English, Palestinians are victims, in Arabic they are victors; in English, Islam means peace, while in Arabic, Islam means vengeance and violence.
The dichotomy within the same source is never more stark than with how it approaches Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that starts this evening.
What if faith can influence a billion people and inspire them to feed the hungry after fasting the whole day?What if religious conviction can cause a community to become more altruistic and give to welfare and charity for a month?What if the practice of faith can inspire a billion people to become forgiving of each other’s mistakes?What if a noble civilisation of over a billion people can dispel the myth that human beings cannot live without violence, looting, robbing and killing?
In Arabic, Al Jazeera's version of Ramadan gives an entirely different message - one that celebrates violence and killing.
Already this year it calls Ramadan the "month of resistance." It makes clear what "resistance" means - Palestinian terror attacks. "The Palestinian resistance led by the Al-Qassam Brigades did what it had to: resist the occupier even if it led to martyrdom. The heroes of the resistance went to their deaths with their heads held high because it was their duty."
In 2024, 2022 and 2021, Al Jazeera published and celebrated lengthy lists of Palestinian attacks on Jewish civilians in Ramadan. Excerpts:
April 7, 2022: The young man, Raad Hazem (29 years old), left his home in the Jenin camp (northern West Bank) until he reached Dizengoff Street. Hazem opened fire on those in the street, leaving behind 5 dead and 6 wounded.
In 2016, the resistance carried out 10 suicide operations, ranging from shooting to stabbing, killing 6 Israelis and wounding 15 others. The most serious of these operations occurred when Muhammad and Khalil Makhamreh, cousins from the town of Yatta in the West Bank, entered the Sarona shopping mall near the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv and opened fire on settlers, killing 4 and wounding 40.In 2015, a shooting took place near the Dolev settlement, near Ramallah, at point-blank range, targeting a settler’s car. One settler was killed and another was injured.In 2010, resistance fighters opened fire on a settler’s car in Hebron, killing four of them.In 2002, resistance fighters Akram al-Hanini, Walaa Surur, and Dhiab al-Muhtaseb carried out an operation against settlers from Kiryat Arba near Hebron, killing 12 soldiers and settlers and wounding 18 others, 4 of them seriously. In the same year, the martyr Sami Abu Halil from Hebron detonated his explosive belt on Mexico Street in Jerusalem, killing 12 Israelis and wounding 47 others.Ramadan 2001 was crowded with resistance operations. The martyr Maher Habesha from Nablus carried out a bombing operation on a Haifa bus, killing 16 Israelis and wounding 55 others. When his comrades brought him breakfast, he refused, saying, “I will break my fast tonight in heaven.”Also in Ramadan 2001, the two martyrs Osama Bahar and Nabil Halabiya carried out their double operation against an Israeli army site in Jerusalem, killing 11 Israelis and wounding 190 others. [It was the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall - EoZ].The two resistance fighters Jihad al-Masri and Muslima al-Araj also stormed the “Eli Sinai” settlement north of Gaza, killing an Israeli nuclear scientist and wounding 5 others.
In this sense, Al Jazeera is perfectly aligned with Hamas, which has published its own celebratory lists of Ramadan attacks.
Last year, Islamic Jihad spokesperson Abu Hamza said "Let Ramadan be a month of terror for the occupation." It was reported in Israeli and Arab media, but virtually ignored in Europe and America.
Because quoting Muslims saying Ramadan is about murdering Jews would be Islamophobic.
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