Muslim world protests Arab News adding a rabbi as a columnist

Last week, the Saudi English-language news site Arab News brought Rabbi Marc Schneier as an op-ed columnist.

Given that Schneier is not an Israeli citizen, this makes this a good test to see which Arabs are antisemitic. anyone who opposes this appointment has to explain their reasons why they are against a Jew.

Iran's Press TV called this a "surprising decision," and tied this to rumors that Israel and Saudi Arabia will establish relations.

The Palestinian Media Forum in Gaza condemned the move, calling it a "dangerous penetration of the awareness of Arab generations."

They called it "a promotion of intellectual poison in the Arab community, in addition to the obliteration of the crimes of the occupation against Islamic sanctities, foremost of which is the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and denying the torments of about 20 Palestinian journalists languishing in the prisons of the occupation."

They added that "opening the door for Rabbi Marc Schneier to address the Arab public constitutes a dangerous breach of the awareness of Arab generations, and provides a free service to the occupation without the slightest Arab benefit from such normalization."

In other words, Arabs might read opinions that they shouldn't be exposed to.

Palestinian news site Amad has a short commentary on the header of each page. Last week it said,

Weird and provocative to the Arab essence… An Arab newspaper that is published in English employs a Jewish rabbi as its chief editor… We would have respected the decision if (the rabbi) would be one that rejects the occupation, the ethnic cleansing and the racism… The debasement has become like a (runaway) train)… (Even) spitting on these (people) is not enough!

The thought of  Jew writing for an Arab paper is really riling up some people.

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

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