A Saudi columnist grudgingly praises Israel and discusses the "Edy Cohen Phenomenon"

A columnist for a newspaper in Mecca writes about Israel's accomplishments - and ties them to Edy Cohen, the prolific Israeli Arabic tweeter whose writings are avidly followed by a huge Arab audience.Over twenty years ago, we had a teacher of Canadian nationality who gained our trust easily and we all loved him, and because of this trust, he was able to enter my brain...

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Original sources of the Arab threat to "drive the Jews into the sea"

Back in 2014, I looked at the origins of the phrase "drive the Jews into the sea," because some have claimed that the expression was a hoax by Jews  and Arabs never used that phrase in reference to Jews in Israel.I found solid evidence that it was used after 1948, and then saw that the phrase was documented in the book "O Jerusalem" as having been used first by a Jerusalem...

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Saudi Arabia is less antisemitic than the @NYTimes

From The New York Times:In a surprising televised monologue, a senior member of the Saudi royal family and former ambassador to Washington accused Palestinian leaders of betraying their people, signaling an erosion of Saudi support for an issue long considered sacrosanct.... Prince Bandar offered a rambling and selective history of the Palestinian struggle, saying that the...

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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...

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