Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif
tweeted:
Israel is evil and a curse for humanity, while peace talks are underway in Islamabad, genocide is being committed in Lebanon. Innocent citizens are being killed by Israel, first Gaza, then Iran and now Lebanon, bloodletting continues unabated. I hope and pray people who created this cancerous state on Palestinian land to get rid of European jews burn in hell.
There is coverage of this story, mostly about how Pakistan can portray itself as an honest mediator between Iran and Israel when this is the position of its officials.
But no one,
outside Israel, seems willing point out the classic, no-doubt-about-it antisemitism within this tweet.
The idea that Europe created Israel as a means to get rid of its Jews is a classic antisemitic meme popular among the far-Right. These are the people who make charts showing all the countries Jews have been expelled from over the centuries and pretend that this is proof that Jews, as a group, must deserve it.
There is no way to claim that Asif's words are mere "anti-Zionism."
But the progressive Left and Western Muslims insist that Muslims aren't antisemitic, not reporting survey after survey showing they are. So the media which wants to please those groups (or is aligned with those groups) simply ignore the blatant antisemitism spouted by a top Pakistani official - because it doesn't fi their narrative.
It isn't like they can deny what he said. So they just hope you don't look at his full words and understand what he is saying.
(As I was composing this post on Thursday night, Asif removed the tweet.)