Joseph Massad isn't only an antisemite and a liar. He's also a hypocrite. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Joseph Massad isn't only an antisemite and a liar. He's also a hypocrite.

I showed last month that the philosophical core of anti-Zionism is antisemitism, because anti-Zionists deny Jewish peoplehood and claim that Jews are only members of a religious group. Redefining the Jewish people is itself antisemitic, because it denies Jewish history, especially Jewish history in the Holy Land.

Columbia University professor Joseph Massad is no exception. He claims that Jewish peoplehood was a late 19th century myth, that Jews who lived in Europe are all converts. He clearly believes the discredited Khazar theory although he is careful not to say it explicitly - somehow, magically, hundreds of thousands of European Christians decided to convert to Judaism where they can be treated as Christ-killers without anyone noticing and without anyone writing about it.

Again - a Columbia University professor who will choose any lie, including antisemitic lies, to justify his hate for Israel. Facts are strictly optional for Massad.

Which brings us to his latest column in Arabi21. He says:

When pro-Zionists celebrate Israeli invasions and war crimes and present them as "Jewish" achievements, this position receives applause and encouragement from Israel and its allies.

When do Zionists celebrate war crimes? Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza because of Hamas policies of using them as human shields - their deaths are not war crimes by any reasonable reading of international law. Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol of 1977: says "The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations."

What Jew, outside some fringe figures on social media, celebrates actual war crimes or civilian deaths? No one. Killing civilians does not help Israel or Judaism in any conceivable way. If Israel could fight a war without any civilian deaths, it would do so, and it spends a huge amount of money to develop weapons that are less likely to cause collateral damage.

But you know who does celebrate the murders of civilians? Joseph Massad!

Within days of October 7, he described the murders and kidnappings of hundred of civilians with these words: "innovative," "astonishing," "astounding," "awesome," "incredible," "remarkable," a "stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance," a "historic event" that was greeted by the Arabs with "jubilation and awe."

Massad even specifically praised Hamas' attacking purely civilian targets, saying "No less astonishing was the Palestinian resistance’s takeover of several Israeli settler-colonies near the Gaza boundary and even as far away as 22 kms, as in the case of Ofakim."

Even he doesn't describe them as military bases - they are civilian communities in Israel itself. Yet Massad justifies their being attacked because he considers all of Israel to be illegal and all Israeli Jews to be legitimate targets.

Yes, that is real antisemitism.