Round-up of antisemitism that MEMRI found recently

It's been a great month for Jew-haters in the Arabic-speaking world.

Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar, June 5: "There was a series of 120 deportations of Jews from Europe. This was because they betrayed the people among whom they lived, and worked against the interests of the societies that sheltered them. They betrayed those societies, in which they lived as spies. For example, they spied against the Persians for the Byzantines. These [Jewish] groups corrupted the societies in which they lived through usury, the worship of money, extreme miserliness, and bribery. Those nations considered them to be anti-Christian. The [Jews] lived in Europe according to the principle of rejection of non-Jews, whom they call Gentiles. They embraced the notion of the Jews being the victims throughout history, in order to take over Palestine."

Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, the former grand mufti of Lebanon, June 7: "The only solution is for the Jews of the Balfour Declaration to return to where they or their parents came from. That day will come. I have said this to the British and U.S. ambassadors, when they were visiting the religious authorities [in Lebanon]. I was the Grand Mufti back then. I met them separately, but told them the same thing. I said to them: 'You in the West have placed the Jews of the world in a position harsher than the Holocaust that Hitler perpetrated against them' – I mean, if that Holocaust was real, as they claim, or if it is cast in doubt."

Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Iraq Ahmed 'Aql, May 23: "The most dangerous part about all of this is that Trump has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish people, and not [just] the capital of Israel. This means that he considers the Jews to be a people, whereas, in fact, they constitute a religion, not a people....This is what the Jews are demanding. They are trying to establish that Judaism constitutes a people, which is not true. Judaism is a religion, like Islam or Christianity."

Swedish-Moroccan writer Ahmad Rami, the founder and head of the Swedish-based "Radio Islam"
said in a recent TV interview that Judaism "is like a mafia in the West."  He added that "the Zionists are occupying Europe and the West both politically and in terms of the media." When the Al-Mayadeen interviewer tried to draw a distinction between Zionists and Jews, Rami responded that "there is no difference between Jews and Zionists" and said that Judaism "is like a mafia in the West." "The media in its entirety is Zionist," he said, adding "YouTube is Zionist, Yahoo is Zionist, and Google is Zionist, but they compete for a share of the market."

Kuwaiti cleric Sheikh Jihad Al-'Ayesh:"Did the Nazi annihilation – the Holocaust – target only the Jews? Anybody? The Jews claim that it happened to them alone and that the number of Jews who died in that Holocaust was six million. What we have here are historical errors. First of all, the figure of six million is a historical lie...The Jews were banished, tortured, and annihilated because of their deeds. They were not banished for being Jews. ....Hitler and the Nazi state knew the truth about the Jews, and therefore, they began tormenting and persecuting them. ...Many historians have rejected the historical lies, asking: How could you possibly kill, burn, or annihilate six million people in gas chambers? How many gas chambers would you need? Imagine that you want to build a bakery. What size bakery would you need to make 10,000 loaves of bread? You would need a bakery of a certain size, right? What if you wanted to make 50,000 loaves of bread an hour? You would need a larger bakery. How many ovens would you need to burn six million human beings? We are talking about only a few years. It didn’t last long. Where are those ovens? Where? Many of the people who investigated the lie of the Jews about Hitler burning six million of them in gas chambers said that the gas supposedly used was Zyklon B, which requires advanced and costly technical precautions, and was not available to the Nazi state in the quantities claimed by the Jews. Gas chambers must be built of a certain metal, with special ventilation and hermetical locking. All those things did not exist."

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