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Monday, June 05, 2023

An Arab account of June 1967 describes their confidence and crushing humiliation. And bigotry.

Nablus in the 1960sExcerpts from a story in Rai al Youm from a girl who witnessed the Six Day War in Nablus:Sirens are blaring and my father is screaming and ordering us to go to the shelter.The shelter is a garage at the bottom of the house, and we put some necessities in it like first aid and some food and water..President Gamal Abdel Nasser told us that we will be victorious...

Al Aqsa preacher: "Jews are trying to obliterate Islamic civilization"

Because the antisemitism from Palestinian and Arab media and personalities is so pervasive, they need to keep upping the ante in order to get their incitement to break through the line noise of normal Jew-hate.Enter the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and "Grand Mufti" of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein.In response to Jews visiting the Temple Mount on Sukkot, Hussein...

In Mehr News, Hezbollah and Iran goysplain Judaism

Iran's Mehr News describes "What does the word 'Zionist' mean?"Written by Hezbollah's "foreign relations official" Khalil Rizk, it is a bizarre description of Judaism from someone who has never met a Jew in his life.Here is what I learned about Judaism/"Zionism":* The followers of the Zionist idea believe in their faith that the Messiah, the Savior, will come at the end of...

The Mufti’s seminal antisemitic pamphlet

From “Islamic Antisemitism: Characteristics, Origins, and Current Effects” by Matthias Küntzel in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs: A thirty-one-page booklet in Arabic entitled Islam and Jewry, published in Cairo on August 18, 1937, served as an effective propaganda tool. 11 As far as we know, this publication is the first written evidence of Islamic antisemitism. In 1938, the Berlin-based publishing house Junker und Dünnhaupt released...

Did UNESCO say that the Tomb of the Patriarchs was purely Muslim?

In response to the news that Benjamin Netanayahu will visit the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron today, Palestinian Chief Justice Mahmoud al-Habbash stated that "the infringement of the Palestinian territories and Islamic holy sites for electoral contests is a crime and a violation of the Palestinian rights in the land and holy sites, and a flagrant violation of international...

Persecution of Jews in Muslim countries, 1841

From The History of the Hebrew Nation: From Its First Origin to the Present Time By Rev. Joshua William Brooks, 1841: As regards the present political condition of the Jews, notwithstanding the decrees in their behalf which have been passed, the Christian reader will be deceived if he concludes that the reproach of Israel is yet “rolled away from off all the earth.” The...

Gustav Bauernfeind's painting of the Temple Mount entrance, 1886

From Israel HaYom: In one of the rooms of the Jordanian royal palace in Amman hangs a famous painting from 128 years ago by the artist Gustav Bauernfeind. This breathtaking piece of art depicts a group of Jews standing at the Cotton Merchant's Gate, one of the entrances to the Temple Mount. The artist wrote of the painting: "A group of Jews stand at the gate, their heads...

How Muslims persecuted the Jews of Shiraz (Persia), 1893

You know how Iranians like to pretend that they have always treated their Jewish subjects with respect? Well, not so much. From "Jewish Missionary Intelligence," July, 1893: Shiraz has the largest Jewish population in the south. Their number is 5,000, and they occupy 430 houses in their own quarter, called Mahale Yahoodian i.e., "the quarter of the Jews." They have ten large synagogues, two chief Rabbis, and five schools, where the children study...

That age old respect Islam had for Christians and Jews

I just read another ignorant article in OnIslam.com, this one describing the Muslim view of anti-semitism. (Hint: it is very similar to Helen Thomas'.) The article ends off with This is indeed our call to Christians and Jews. As people who believe in God and follow His revelations, let us rally to a common formula - faith. History proves that when we all return to the true altruistic teaching of our religions, harmony and a successful civilization...

New book on Jews in Maghreb

Silke points to an interesting article: An important new book in French drawing on original archive material by the Sorbonne professor Paul Fenton and the historian and human rights campaigner David Littman demolishes the myth that Jews and Muslims lived as equals in the Maghreb. Indeed, it was the collective memory of pre-colonial Jewish suffering which caused the mass Jewish exodus from Algeria and Morocco. Veronique Chemla interviews both authors...

Rachel's Tomb was never a mosque (Nadav Shragai)

JCPA published a nice paper by Nadav Shragai in reaction to the UNESCO debacle where that august organization declared Rachel's Tomb to be a "historic mosque." For hundreds of years, the shape of Rachel's Tomb resembled the grave of a vali (a Muslim saint). The building received its distinctive shape in 1622 when the Turkish governor of Jerusalem, Mohammad Pasha, permitted the Jews to wall off the four pillars that supported the dome and for the...

The Stockholm Syndrome of Hebron, 1929

We are almost at the 80th anniversary of the bloodthirsty Arab massacre of the Jews of Hebron that took place on August 23, 1929. A recent book about the Jews of Hebron by Jerold Auerbach goes into detail of not only that horrible day but the entire history of Hebron Jews. The details of the slaughter itself are chilling to the point of disbelief, and are summarized in this Tablet column today by Seth Lipsky. By August, trouble was sensed by...

Arab and Muslim attacks against Jews, 1907-1915

I recently posted events from the American Jewish Yearbook of 1914-15 showing that the frequent claim that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel is a lie. It turns out that the American Jewish Committee has all their yearbooks archived on-line, and they are an exceptional resource for historical research. Here are the major events I found in those yearbooks of the friction between Arabs/Muslims and Jews in the years before the Balfour...

Jews and Arabs living peacefully together

One often hears claims such as this one, printed as a letter to the editor in a Dallas newspaper: Muslims and Jews were living in peace in Palestine until the Zionists established Israel and started driving Arabs from their ancestral homes... I just came upon the American Jewish Yearbook for 1914-1915, describing events of the year. Here are some of the events in Palestine at the time: August. Bedouins attack colony of Rehobot, killing one colonist...

The richest Jew in Damascus, 1816

James Silk Buckingham wrote a diary of his travels in the early part of the nineteenth century, called "Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine." He mentions the richest Jew in Damascus, Mallim Yusef, who was a very important member of the Damascus branch of the Ottoman government, "directing all the financial operations" there. Buckingham then describes a visit to the "kihyah bey," or local prime minister,...

Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews in Palestine in the 1850s

(Part 1 here, part 2 here.) Some other fascinating details are uncovered in James Finn's "Stirring Times: Or, Records from Jerusalem Consular Chronicles of 1853 to 1856". Here is an overview of the Sephardic and Ashkenanic Jews, and their relations: At the period of this history (1853-6), there were about 10,000 Jews in Jerusalem. The modern Jews within their ancient land cannot fail to present an interesting field for contemplation. In 1853...