ANTI-SEMITISM 
              EU 
              definition of anti-Semitism: singling 
              out Jews and Israel 
               
              Those who hate 
              and wish to destroy the Jewish people want to destroy the rest of 
              the free world today - it was true in WW2, it is true today.. 
                
              Jew devouring a 
              Palestinian child, by Palestinian cartoonist Omaya Joha in the newspaper 
              Al-Raya, Qatar | Arab 
              hate cartoons in Nazi style 
               
              Hitler's 
              "Mein Kampf" and 
              fraudulent 
              "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" 
              in Arabic are bestsellers 
              Iran sells notorious anti-Semitic tracts in 
              English at Frankfurt Book Fair 
               
                
              Islamic 
              Jew haters for 
              terror, re-opening Auschwitz and nuclear genocide, NYC, May 
              2009 (IslamicAwakening.com, accessed 6/3/2009) 
            The 
              New Anti-Semitism - Israel 
              is portrayed as the abstract evil, irrespective of what policies 
              the Israeli government does or does not carry out—while the 
              Arab Palestinians stand for the abstract good, regardless of what 
              their representatives permit or accomplish. Few of Israel's 
              critics have a genuine interest in the Palestinians. Rather, they 
              devote outsized attention to this otherwise small and obscure population 
              because it represents a convenient and potent tool with which to 
              malign Israel. Organizations intent on criticizing Israel's every 
              move by default become masters of tiny Palestinian grievances. They 
              document in loving detail residential and transportation patterns 
              in the West Bank, water and electricity grids in Gaza, and impediments 
              to reaching holy places in Jerusalem but are not concerned with 
              the corrupt Palestinian dictators withholding peace, freedom and 
              prosperity from their fellow subjects. 
            There 
              have been three stages of anti-Semitism. The first was religious 
              anti-Semitism, initially Christian and now overshadowed by religious 
              Muslim anti-Semitism. The second stage was nationalist-ethnic-racist 
              anti-Semitism. And the third - the latest one - is anti-Israelism, 
              against the collective Jew, the State of Israel. Each of these has 
              three characteristic phases. The first is demonization; the second 
              is exclusion; and the third is expulsion or destruction. Elements 
              of all three phases are directed today against the collective Jew. 
              Demonization - whereby Israelis are called the Nazis of today, citizens 
              of an apartheid or colonialist state. 
               
              The 
              annihilation of Israel is a necessary prologue to the redemption 
              of all of humanity through Islam. The Arab world and Iran are 
              today the central clearinghouses for genocidal anti-Semitism, replete 
              with Holocaust denial and Nazi-propaganda characterizing Jews as 
              subhuman filth who the Muslim world must unite to snuff out. Based 
              on Koranic Verses, Interpretations, and Traditions, Muslim Clerics 
              State: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals. 
              Those who turn a blind eye to Islamist ideology—its cult of 
              death, its anti-Semitism, its hatred of self-determination—stab 
              every Muslim in the back who wants to prevent the Talibanization 
              of his live. 
               Jordanian 
              Nationality Law (Law No. 6 of 1954, last amended 1987), Article 
              3: "The following shall be deemed to be Jordanian nationals: 
              ... (2)Any person who, not being 
              Jewish, .." 
               
               Palestinian 
              Authority TV (May 13, 2005): "Muslims 
              Will Rule America, Britain ... and the Entire World; Israel is a 
              Cancer; Jews are a Virus Resembling AIDS; Muslims Will Finish Them 
              Off" | Transcript 
               The 
              Muslim Woman Magazine 
              (Iqraa TV, Egypt, May 7, 2002)  
               Children 
              program hosted by Egyptian cleric, Sheik Muhammad Sharaf Al-Din, 
              which aired on Al-Nas TV, on June 21, 2006: "The Jews Are 
              the People of Treachery, Betrayal, and Vileness"  
              National 
              Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World 
               Tradition 
              obliges:  Nazi 
              Haj Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, supreme 
              Palestinian Arab leader, president 
              of the World Islamic Congress and Arab League founding member 
              conspired 
              with Hitler to destroy the Jews  and helped recruiting the Moslem 
              SS Handschar Division. Left - the Mufti saluting recruits wearing 
              fez with Nazi eagle and SS Totenkopf (skull), on the collar patch 
              Nazi swastika and Islam's sword. Right 
              - Moslem SS recruits studying the Nazi tractate "Islam and 
              Judaism". 
             Hitler's 
              Mein Kampf In East Jerusalem and PA Territories (MEMRI, Oct 1, 1999): 
              "An Arabic translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is being 
              distributed by Al-Shurouq, a Ramallah based book distributor, to 
              East Jerusalem and territories controlled by the PA. According to 
              Agence France Presse (Sept. 8), the book, previously banned by Israel, 
              has been allowed by the PA and is 6th 
              on the Palestinian best-seller list."  
              Palestinian 
              Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen (MEMRI, 
              May 30, 2002): 
              Number of Jewish Victims in the 
              Holocaust Might be "Even Less Than a Million..." Zionist 
              Movement Collaborated with Nazis to "Expand the Mass Extermination" 
              of the Jews.  
               How 
              much is 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust?  
               The 
              Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection (Christian Action for Israel, Apr/May 
              2000): "Hitler's 
              Mein Kampf currently ranks sixth on the best-seller list among Palestinian 
              Arabs. Luis Al-Haj, translator of the Arabic edition, writes glowingly 
              in the preface about how Hitler's "ideology" and his "theories 
              of nationalism, dictatorship and race… are advancing especially 
              within our Arabic States." 
               National 
              Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World (Matthias Küntzel, 
              JPSR, Spring 2005): "Anti-Semitism based on the notion 
              of a Jewish world conspiracy is not rooted in Islamic tradition 
              but, rather, in European ideological models. The decisive transfer 
              of this ideology to the Muslim world took place between 1937 and 
              1945 under the impact of Nazi propaganda. Important to this process 
              were the Arabic-language service broadcast by the German shortwave 
              transmitter in Zeesen between 1939 and 1945, and the role of Haj 
              Amin el-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who was the first to translate 
              European anti-Semitism into an Islamic context. Although Islamism 
              is an independent, anti-Semitic, antimodern mass movement, its main 
              early promoters – the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the 
              Mufti and the Qassamites in Palestine – were supported financially 
              and ideologically by agencies of the German National Socialist government." 
               
               
               Their 
              Kampf. Hitler’s book in Arab hands (David 
              Pryce-Jones, NRO, July 29, 2002) 
              
               The 
              European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights "Working Definition 
              of Antisemitism" Why 
              We Cannot Criticize Israel that Way by Matthias Kuentzel, accessed 
              May 24, 2007 
                
             
             Hamas 
              Charter, article 7, (Palestine Center, Aug 9, 2003): “The 
              prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The 
              time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); 
              until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! 
              there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!" 
             Hamas 
              Charter, article 22, (Palestine Center, Aug 9. 2003): "The 
              enemies have been scheming for a long time, and they have consolidated 
              their schemes, in order to achieve what they have achieved. They 
              took advantage of key elements in unfolding events, and accumulated 
              a huge and influential material wealth which they put to the service 
              of implementing their dream. This 
              wealth [permitted them to] take over control of the world media 
              such as news agencies, the press, publication houses, broadcasting 
              and the like. [They also used this] wealth to stir 
              revolutions in various parts of the globe in 
              order to fulfill their interests and pick the fruits. They 
              stood behind the French and the Communist Revolutions and behind 
              most of the revolutions we hear about here and there. 
              They also used the money to establish 
              clandestine organizations which are spreading around the world, 
              in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist interests. Such 
              organizations are: the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, 
              B’nai B’rith and the like. All 
              of them are destructive spying organizations. 
              They also used the money to take over control 
              of the Imperialist states and made them colonize many countries 
              in order to exploit the wealth of those countries and spread their 
              corruption therein. As regards local and world wars, it has come 
              to pass and no one objects, that they 
              stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out 
              the Islamic Caliphate. They collected material gains and took control 
              of many sources of wealth. They obtained the Balfour Declaration 
              and established the League of Nations 
              in order to rule the world by means of that 
              organization. They also stood behind 
              World War II, where they collected immense benefits 
              from trading with war materials and prepared for the establishment 
              of their state. They inspired the 
              establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council to 
              replace the League of Nations, in order to rule the world by their 
              intermediary. There 
              was no war that broke out anywhere without their fingerprints on 
              it: “…As often as they light a fire 
              for war, Allah extinguishes it. Their efforts are for corruption 
              in the land and Allah loves not corrupters.” Sura V (Al-Ma’ida—the 
              Tablespread), verse 64 The forces 
              of Imperialism in both the Capitalist West and the Communist East 
              support the enemy with all their might, in material 
              and human terms, taking turns between themselves. When Islam appears, 
              all the forces of Unbelief unite to confront it, because the Community 
              of Unbelief is one. “Oh ye who believe! Take not for intimates 
              others than your own folk, who would spare no pain to ruin you. 
              Hatred is revealed by [the utterance of] their mouth, but that which 
              their breasts hide is greater. We have made plain for you the revelations 
              if you will understand.” Sura III, (Al-Imran), verse 118 It 
              is not in vain that the verse ends with God’s saying: “If 
              you will understand.”  
             Depiction 
              of Jews in the Koran (IslamOnline.net, accessed Dec 16,2009): 
              It is easy for them to slay people and kill innocents. Nothing in 
              the world is dear to their hearts than shedding blood and murdering 
              human beings. They never give up this trait even with the Messengers 
              and the Prophets. Allah says: “…and slew the 
              prophets wrongfully.” (Al-Baqarah: 61).  
             Excerpt 
              from the "Constitution" of Arafat's Fatah: 
              " Article 
              (12): Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist 
              economic, political, military and cultural existence." 
              
              "Jews 
              in Grave Danger in All Moslem Lands" (NYT, 
              May 16, 1948), excerpts : 
            "text 
              of a law drafted by the Political Committee of the Arab League which 
              was intended to govern the legal status of Jewish residents of Arab 
              League countries. It provides that beginning on an unspecified date 
              all Jews except citizens of non-Arab states, would be considered 
              'members of the Jewish minority state of Palestine.' Their bank 
              accounts would be frozen and used to finance resistance to 'Zionist 
              ambitions in Palestine.' Jews believed to be active Zionists would 
              be interned and their assets confiscated." "Already in 
              some Moslem states such as Syria and Lebanon there is a tendency 
              to regard all Jews as Zionist agents and 'fifth columnists.' There 
              have been violent incidents with feeling running high. There are 
              indications that the stage is being set for a tragedy of incalculable 
              proportions." "In Syria a policy of economic discrimination 
              is in effect against Jews. 'Virtually all' Jewish civil servants 
              in the employ of the Syrian Government have been discharged. Freedom 
              of movement has been 'practically abolished.' Special frontier posts 
              have been established to control movements of Jews." "In 
              Iraq no Jew is permitted to leave the country unless he deposits 
              £5,000 ($20,000) with the Government to guarantee his return. 
              No foreign Jew is allowed to enter Iraq even in transit." "In 
              Lebanon Jews have been forced to contribute financially to the fight 
              against the United Nations partition resolution on Palestine. Acts 
              of violence against Jews are openly admitted by the press, which 
              accuses Jews of 'poisoning wells,' etc." "Conditions vary 
              in the Moslem countries. They are worst in Yemen and Afghanistan, 
              whence many Jews have fled in terror to India. Conditions in most 
              of the countries have deteriorated in recent months, this being 
              particularly true of Lebanon, Iran and Egypt. In the countries farther 
              west along the Mediterranean coast conditions are not so bad. It 
              is feared, however that if a full-scale war breaks out, the repercussions 
              will be grave for Jews all the way from Casablanca to Karachi." 
               
             Antizionism 
              and Antisemitism in the Contemporary Islamic Milieu (Shaykh Abdul 
              Hadi Palazzi, Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community): 
              "As a Muslim and a man of 
              religion, I am really disappointed in realizing that people who 
              claim to be my co-religionists are involved in supporting this kind 
              of criminal ideology, and trying to appropriate those guidelines 
              of European antisemitic thought that prepared the ground for the 
              Shoah. On the contrary, I hereby remind that 
              the Islamic territory has been for many century a land of refuge 
              for those Jews that were discriminated and persecuted in Europe; 
              I am proud of the fact that ‘Omar Ibn al-Khattâb ended 
              the ban preventing Jews to live in Jerusalem, while Salâh 
              al-Dîn, after liberating Jerusalem from the hands of the Crusades, 
              wrote to Jewish leaders, "Your exile is over, and whoever wants 
              to come back is welcome". 
              The 
              Protocols of the Elders of Zion - An Egyptian Version (ADL): 
              Published by: Dar al-Turath, Cairo, Egypt, Year Published: NA. The 
              introductory note by the translator Muhammad Khalifa al-Tunisi is 
              from 1976. The foreword to the book was written by Abbas Mahmud 
              al-Aqqad, who also prefaced previous editions published in Egypt. 
              Excerpt from the introductory note by the translator Muhammad Khalifa 
              al-Tunisi: “The Jewish threat 
              is an evil which affects not only our country, but all the countries 
              and nations of the world. We have no choice but to remain fully 
              alert towards its machinations, and persevere in our holy war (jihad) 
              against it, as best as we can. We warn against it, for it is a satanic 
              force, which strives to corrupt the nations of the world and spread 
              hostility and hatred among people both as individuals and groups. 
              Their purpose is to gain sole control over the world and take advantage 
              of all that is valuable in it” (p. 12). 
              A Updated Version. Published by: Maktabat al-Iman, al-Mansura, near 
              al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, Year Published: 1994. Excerpt 
              from the notes to the Arabic translation: 
              “To the Reader: Watch over this copy of the book, because 
              the Jews have waged war against this book whenever and wherever 
              it appeared, and in whatever language. They were prepared to spend 
              any amount of money in order to gather its copies and burn them, 
              so as to conceal from the world their satanic schemes plotted against 
              us, which are revealed in all their abomination in this book.” 
              (p. 6).  
             The 
              Protocols of the Elders of Zion - The Palestinian version (ADL): 
              Source: Chapters of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that appeared 
              in al-Shuhada, a monthly publication of the Political Indoctrination 
              Apparatus of the Palestinian Border Guard which 
              operates in the Gaza Strip (Issue No. 44, November/December 2001). 
              “Because of all these, the Jew has no choice but to indulge, 
              in his relations with others, in using any vile means such as theft, 
              deceit, exploitation, fraud and usury. They also authorize him to 
              kill, like Moses did, as described in the Bible and the Talmud, 
              when he killed the Egyptian in a calculated and premeditated act 
              and did not spare his life. Killing a non-Jew, a “Goy” 
              [gentile], is, according to the Rabbis, an offering to God, which 
              appeases God and earns the offerer a reward. This is because the 
              non-Jews are enemies of God and the Jews, and they are beasts which 
              one is entitled to kill by whatever means available.” 
              The 
              Booksellers of Tehran (Matthias Kuntzel, Wall Street Journal, Oct 
              28, 2005): Every book fair exhibits bestsellers. But anti-Semitic 
              bestsellers? And in Germany, of all places? Last week at the Frankfurt 
              Book Fair, I happened to find myself in the International Publishers 
              section and was simply astonished. At the stand of the Iranian publishers, 
              in plain view, was the text that influenced Hitler's Holocaust fantasies 
              like no other: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," 
              published in English by the Islamic Propagation Organization of 
              the Islamic Republic of Iran. The first page of the tract makes 
              clear that Israel is the target of this new edition. It shows a 
              snake made of triangles, enclosing an area labeled "Greater 
              Israel" that includes large areas of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, 
              Jordan, Iraq, parts of Turkey and northern Saudi Arabia. Each triangle, 
              according to the annotation, symbolizes the "Freemason's Eye," 
              supposedly a "symbol of Jewry." A 
              few steps farther on, the second most important classic of modern 
              anti-Semitism was on display: Henry Ford's "The International 
              Jew," in a 200-page abbreviated version, published by the Iranian 
              "Department of Translation and Publication, Islamic Culture 
              and Relations Organization." It was interesting to read the 
              numerous footnotes that the Iranian publisher had added. For example, 
              Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" is presented as the 
              latest example of the viciousness of Jewish slanders. A 
              third anti-Semitic screed caught my attention for its gaudy cover: 
              A red Star of David over a gray skull and a yellow map of the world. 
              Its title was "Tale of the 'Chosen People' and the Legend of 
              'Historical Right,'" written by Mohammad Taqi Taqipour. In 
              his foreword, the author is certain of another "final solution": 
              Given the "global Islamic movement," Israel will soon 
              be destroyed. 
             New 
              Type of Antisemitism Danger (Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Academic Advisor 
              to Yad Vashem): "Nazism, 
              Stalinist communism, and radical Islam are, to be sure, different 
              from each other, but they also have a certain similarity: all three 
              aim, or aimed, at exclusive control over the world, all three oppose 
              or opposed all expressions of democracy, and all three attacked 
              Jews, though in different ways and with different grades of extremism." 
             Kill 
              a Jew for Allah. The Mideast problem. (John Derbyshire, NRO, Mar 
              22, 2002): "Look: Possibly there would be some abstract 
              justice in closing down the settlements, I don't know. I don't see 
              it myself, I must admit. Why should 
              Jews not live among Arabs? Lots of Arabs live in Israel, 
              and do very well there. There are rich Israeli Arabs; there are 
              Israeli-Arab pop stars and comedians; there are Israeli-Arab intellectuals, 
              teachers, writers, businessmen, athletes. Why, when the whole thing 
              gets sorted out, should there not be Jews living in Arab territory 
              — as there were for centuries past? What, exactly, is wrong 
              with the settlements? I don't see it." 
             The 
              anti-Semitic lies that threaten all of us (Harold Evans, Times Online, 
              Jun 28,2002): "Rampant anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, 
              from schools to press, TV and internet, not only makes Middle East 
              peace impossible, but makes us all targets now " 
               
               The 
              Mideast: A cesspool of hate. Tribal politics and a willingness by 
              Arab-Muslims to blame others for their own problems are contributing 
              factors to today's anti-Semitism Salim Mansur, Toronto Sun, Dec 
              30, 2003): "Writing as 
              a Muslim, ... For what is involved here in the spreading slime of 
              anti-Semitism among many Arabs and Muslims - as it once was in Europe 
              - is the wreckage of Islam." 
             Treatment 
              of Israel strikes an alien note (Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz, National 
              Post): "If a visitor from a far away galaxy were to land 
              at an American or Canadian university and peruse some of the petitions 
              that were circulating around the campus, he would probably come 
              away with the conclusion that the Earth is a peaceful and fair planet 
              with only one villainous nation determined to destroy the peace 
              and to violate human rights. That nation would not be Iraq, Libya, 
              Serbia, Russia or Iran. It would be Israel."  
             The 
              Vatican's Terrorism Omission (Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz, FP, Aug 
              1, 2005 
              Sabotaging 
              Israel's Red Star of David (Israel Report, Oct 2002): "The 
              Magen David Adom (MDA), the Red Star of David, was born 52 years 
              ago. It is the Red Cross, except with a Jewish symbol. Its purpose 
              is to protect life and health and to alleviate human suffering. 
              It serves, without discrimination, the entire Israeli population, 
              including 1.1-million Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian Arabs in need. 
              MDA is not a government agency. It sought membership in the International 
              Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) with the Red Star of David as its 
              emblem. The Star of David is the symbol of the Jewish people as 
              well as of Israel. Surrender of its emblem should not be a condition 
              of membership. But its application for membership of the IFRC was 
              rejected at the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which required all new 
              national aid societies to adopt the Red Cross symbol.  And 
              yet since that time some 25 Red 
              Crescent Societies representing the Muslim world have been admitted 
              to the IFRC which is now called the International Federation of 
              Red Cross and Red Crescent Services. Every effort Israel has made 
              to obtain recognition of MDA's emblem has failed due to tremendous 
              world anti-Israel sentiment. MDA's exclusion and the non-recognition 
              of its symbol are blatant examples of the ongoing campaign to delegitimize 
              the Jewish State. The IFRC's treatment of MDA as a pariah is shameful."  Hiding 
              behind a crystal (JP, Dec 11, 2005): "... the 192 signatories 
              of the Geneva Conventions decided to adopt a new international symbol 
              - the Red Crystal - alongside the Red Cross and the Red Crescent. 
              Now it seems, for the first time, Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) 
              can join the 182 members of the International Federation of Red 
              Cross and Red Crescent Societies ... The new Red Crystal 
              is a simple, bold diamond shape ... MDA will continue to use its 
              current symbol, the red Star of David, in Israel, and internationally 
              can use either an empty crystal or one with a Star of David inside 
              it. MDA and Israeli diplomats have been working toward such a solution 
              for years, though it clearly does not give the symbol of the Jewish 
              people the same status as the cross and the crescent. Those other 
              two symbols do not have to appear within the crystal when operating 
              internationally; the Star of David will. Advocates of the crystal 
              point out that the International Committee of the Red Cross was 
              actually looking for such a symbol, even leaving aside the "problem" 
              of Israel's membership, since the Red Cross was having trouble operating 
              in some Muslim countries under its own symbol. Presumably, therefore, 
              MDA will not be the only member society operating under the crystal 
              in some hot spots; so will the Red Cross ... Why could there not 
              have been four recognized symbols: a cross, crescent, crystal and 
              the Star of David? Or alternatively, why were the cross and crescent 
              not - like our star will be - forced inside the crystal when operating 
              internationally? There are no good answers to these questions. Evidently 
              even a humanitarian movement, and one which perhaps more than any 
              international body purportedly prides itself on neutrality and impartiality, 
              can baldly discriminate against the Jewish state for decades, and 
              then adopt a "solution" that continues to discriminate 
              against the symbol of the Jewish people. There is, furthermore, 
              a wider problem with the new arrangement: Rather than rejecting 
              and combatting hatred, it accommodates violence and intolerance. 
              It is no coincidence that, after over half a century of tolerating 
              the rejection of the Star of David, the Red Cross has itself in 
              recent years found it increasingly difficult to operate, and began 
              to seek cover. Though the crystal is being portrayed as the solution 
              to a general problem, namely places where one symbol or another 
              is not tolerated, in practice the intolerance flows almost entirely 
              in one direction: from the Muslim world against the Star of David 
              and, recently, against the Red Cross too. It is almost impossible 
              to conceive of a situation in which a Christian country, by contrast, 
              would take violent offense to a rescue mission operating under a 
              Red Crescent. By bowing for so long to the utter rejection of the 
              symbol of the Jewish people, and then devising for it a second-class 
              status, the international community legitimized a hatred that is 
              the antithesis of the Red Cross mission and the cause of many of 
              the casualties it treats. Why should a Red Cross ambulance, whose 
              only mission is to save lives, not be able to operate in Muslim 
              areas? Why does Israel have to beg Muslim countries for the right 
              to openly help their peoples recover from national disasters? Most 
              perplexingly, how has this blinding intolerance become so "normal" 
              that such questions are not even asked? Thursday's 
              decision on the new symbol was, in a step almost unheard on such 
              issues, taken by a vote rather than by consensus. Over 20 Muslim 
              countries, led by Syria, voted no. For these countries, even hiding 
              Israel behind a crystal was plainly too much tolerance. And in the 
              end, it was not just Israel that attempted to hide itself from a 
              hatred in many Islamic countries so deep it extends even to those 
              who would save their own peoples' lives. It was the entire West 
              as well." 
             Israel's 
              second-class status at the UN (Anne Bayefsky, National Pos, Feb 
              18, 2003):  
              "In fact, the only remaining elected Israeli on a UN body anywhere 
              is Mayer Gabay, vice-chair of the UN Administrative Tribunal -- 
              whose term ends in December of this year and who is not permitted 
              by general rules concerning time limits to stand for re-election. 
            By 
              contrast, Egypt has members on all six of the UN human rights treaty 
              bodies. In fact, the Egyptian candidate for the Committee on the 
              Rights of the Child was elected with the highest number of votes 
              by the 191 parties to the Child Convention. This is despite the 
              fact that the leading child rights international NGO (based in Geneva) 
              put out an advisory to countries before the vote. It said: "NGOs 
              feel that she is not very knowledgeable nor reliable on the issues 
              ... due to her strong affiliation and history with the Egyptian 
              government." Translation: When countries of interest to Egypt 
              are considered by the committee, an Egyptian government official 
              sits close to the "independent" Egyptian member just to 
              make sure they get it right. 
            Israel 
              is also the only UN member state denied membership in any of the 
              UN's five regional groups, which elect UN bodies in Geneva. Elections 
              in the UN are normally based on regional representation or slates 
              prearranged by regional groups. Israel qualifies for membership 
              in the Western European and Others Group (WEOG), composed of geographically 
              diverse states including Canada and Australia. But WEOG, driven 
              by states such as France, refuses to admit Israel to its Geneva 
              operations. This has the consequence that Israel cannot be elected 
              to a whole range of UN bodies. For instance, Israel cannot stand 
              for election to WIPO -- the World Intellectual Property Organization. 
              Similarly, Israel is prevented from running for the International 
              Labour Organization's Governing Body. 
            Lacking 
              UN regional group membership in Geneva means that Israel is the 
              only UN member forced to sit out consultations on draft resolutions 
              and UN Geneva-based business of all kinds. Israel is refused any 
              possibility of participating in the consultations of regional bodies 
              in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development the World 
              Health Organization. The meetings behind closed doors of regional 
              groups at the Commission on Human Rights negotiate the language 
              of resolutions on all subjects without any Israeli participation. 
              In recent years, Sweden and Co. in the European Union have enjoyed 
              negotiating an agreed-upon level of hostility on the myriad anti-Israel 
              resolutions with Arab states on the commission, before Israeli diplomats 
              got a copy of a first draft." 
             The 
              U.N.'s Dirty Little Secret. The international body refuses to condemn 
              anti-Semitism (Anne Bayefsky, Wall Street Journal, Dec 8, 2003): 
              "A draft resolution on anti-Semitism--which would have been 
              a first in the U.N.'s 58-year history--was withdrawn in the face 
              of Arab and Muslim opposition." 
             Undiplomatic 
              Imbalance | The antisemitism at the U.N. is a problem for more than 
              just Israel (Anne Bayefsky, NRO, Dec 13, 2004): 
              "To appreciate fully the extent to which the U.N. has been 
              taken over, observe November 29th, the annual U.N. Day of Solidarity 
              with the Palestinian People, which is the only U.N. day dedicated 
              to a specific people. The occasion was held in the U.N.'s elaborate 
              Trusteeship Council before hundreds of delegates. At the front of 
              the room sat the secretary general, the president of the General 
              Assembly, and the chair of that main U.N. body, the Committee on 
              Palestinian Rights. In a repeat of previous years' performances, 
              beside them stood a U.N. flag, a Palestinian flag, and in between, 
              a map in Arabic pre-dating the existence of the U.N. member state 
              of Israel. All participants were asked to rise for "a minute 
              of silence...for all those who have given their lives for the cause 
              of the Palestinian people..." — which would include suicide 
              bombers." 
               
               Muslim 
              Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger (Robert S. Wistrich): 
                "What is particularly spine-chilling 
              about the new Muslim anti-Semitism is that it appropriates symbols 
              and motifs from classic European anti-Jewish bigotry and from Nazi 
              propaganda. Thus, in illustrations reproduced in this volume one 
              sees images of Jews with hook noses or as devil figures, Israelis 
              with swastikas or as drinkers of the blood of children. Hate literature, 
              such as the notorious nineteenthcentury forgery, The Protocols of 
              the Elders of Zion, has been resurrected and published in numerous 
              editions throughout the Arab world. The blood libel-the calumny 
              that Jews require the blood of non-Jews for ritual purposes-resurfaced 
              from the mouth of the Syrian defense minister, Mustafa Tlas, and 
              most recently from a medical professor in an article in the mainstream 
              Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh. Arabic editions of Mein Kampf are selling 
              briskly in, among other places, London and the Palestinian Authority-controlled 
              areas." 
               
               The 
              demonology of SE Asian Islamists (Australian MP Michael Danby, Jerusalem 
              Post, Aug 31, 31, 2003): "Sue and Donna lived in Elwood 
              and Port Melbourne respectively, suburbs in my constituency in Melbourne, 
              where I serve as a federal member of parliament. Sue and Donna were 
              killed whilst enjoying a holiday in Bali, and now Donna leaves behind 
              a disabled four-year-old. As justification for their murderous acts 
              in Bali, two of the known perpetrators, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and 
              Imam Samudra, have focused their 
              rhetoric on revenge 'against the Jews,' despite the fact that, to 
              the best of my knowledge, there are no Jews in Indonesia. 
              ... Where European anti-Semites saw the Jews as the sworn enemies 
              of Christianity, the Indonesian 
              anti-Semites see the Jews and Christians as allies. Imam Samudra 
              says the Bali bombing was designed 'to carry out my responsibility 
              to wage global jihad against Jews and Christians throughout the 
              world.' When Samudra was led from court on 26 
              June, he yelled: 'Destroy Christians, 
              destroy America, destroy Jews!' ... Poor Indonesian 
              youth are attending religious schools (madrassas) and some of them 
                are being indoctrinated by Wahabist 
              preachers funded from Saudi Arabia. 
              The result has been to reconnect Indonesian Islam with the Islamist 
              strand of the Arab world, with its prevalent strains of anti-Western 
              and anti-Semitic ideology."  
             Hatred 
              of Israel is a crutch Arab states have to give up (Ruth Wisse, Wall 
              Street Journal, Jun 16, 2003): "In almost identical ways 
              [to the Nazis],   the autocrats 
              who govern Arab societies have used the "Zionist entity" 
              to deflect attention from the worst aspects of their rule. 
              The unwanted presence of the Jews became the rallying point for 
              internal dissatisfaction with the mounting problems of Arab regimes. 
              The drumbeat against Israel invited the world to debate the iniquities 
              of the Jews rather than question the legitimacy of the attacks against 
              them. This comparison is not intended to equate the Germans with 
              the Arabs, except in the ways that both exploited anti-Semitism 
              to achieve broader political goals. Both used the alleged threat 
              of "the Jews" to excuse their own failures. Anti-Semitism 
              in both situations linked otherwise warring groups of the Left and 
              Right. The problem with anti-Semitism in its 
              older and newer varieties is that it seems to serve its patrons 
              so well. Without question, Arab 
              rulers successfully deflected attention from their offenses by their 
              decades of war and propaganda against Israel. Even the liberal Western 
              media that might have been expected to support a besieged fellow 
              democracy have long since focused on alleged Israeli abuses instead 
              of on the abuses of their Arab accusers." 
             On 
              Hating Israel. What we know but can't say out loud. (Victor Davis 
              Hanson, NRO) 
               Why 
              Israel, and not Sudan, is singled out (Boston Globe, Charles Jacoby, 
              Oct 5, 2002) 
               Oriana 
              Fallaci on Anti-Semitism 
             Rousing 
              Muslim bigotry (Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, Oct 23, 2003): Mahathir 
              delivered his diatribe at an Islamic summit meeting on Oct. 16. 
              His theme was the anti-Semite's timeless plaint: The Jews are few 
              but crafty, and the world is in their grip. "The Europeans 
              killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule 
              the world by proxy," Mahathir told the leaders of 57 Muslim 
              nations. "They get others to fight and die for them." 
              He lamented that Jews are an enemy "who think. They survived 
              2,000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking. They 
              invented . . . socialism, communism, human rights, and democracy 
              so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong -- so they may 
              enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained 
              control of the most powerful countries." And 
              how should the world's Muslims deal with the Jews? Mahathir urged 
              them to learn from Mohammed's example -- to buy time by making "strategic 
              retreats" and signing peace accords, then building up their 
              strength until they are ready to launch a "counterattack" 
              that will lead to "final victory." 
               To 
              [Prime Minister of Malaysia] Mahathir Mohamad (Amos Asa-El, JP, 
              Oct. 23, 2003): "The question, therefore, is not why 
              you are after the Jews - that's because of your 
              insecurity and our perceived vulnerability - and also not what the 
              Jews will do in response, because today's Jews, unlike their forefathers, 
              can be counted on to confront people like you and the challenge 
              they represent. The question is why you are so frustrated? 
              And the answer in one word is: envy. Not only has Western civilization 
              advanced as dramatically as it has; in recent years non-Western 
              Japan, China, and India, as well as semi-Western Russia and Latin 
              America have also joined the future. Most Muslim countries, at the 
              same time, have not only stagnated, but in fact backtracked, seeing 
              the gaps between them and much of the rest of the world grow even 
              deeper than they were a century ago." 
             What 
              if it's not Israel they loathe? (Paris-based Iranian Amir Taheri, 
              JP, Dec 2, 2004): "There are no free elections or reliable 
              opinion polls in the Arab world. So no one knows what the silent 
              majority really thinks. The best one can do is rely on anecdotal 
              evidence. On that basis, I came to believe that the Palestine-Israel 
              issue was low down on the list of priorities for the man in the 
              street but something approaching an obsession for the political, 
              business, and intellectual elites. ... The reason why the elites 
              fake passion about this issue is that it is the only one on which 
              they agree. In many cases, it is also the only political issue that 
              people can discuss without running into trouble with the secret 
              services." 
            Tell 
              Children the Truth (Overseas Moslems expose the roots of 
              today's jihad) 
            The 
              Pathology of Jewish Anti-Semitism (Steven Plaut, FP, Feb 16, 
              2010): Most Jews dismiss such people as “self-hating,” 
              but this term is misleading at best. These rogues do not hate themselves. 
              Indeed they are narcissistic to the core. They hate other Jews 
              and wish them harm. Nor are these Jewish anti-Semites simply 
              assimilationists of Jewish descent who have lost interest in their 
              heritage, become indifferent towards the history of their people 
              and therefore casually alienated from Israel and its travails. On 
              the contrary, anti-Semitic Jews are intensely involved in their 
              “roots” and use them adroitly as protective coloration 
              from which they advance their treasonous notions. In some extreme 
              cases they collaborate with Neo-Nazis, Islamist terrorists, and 
              even Holocaust Deniers. | The 
              Psychology of Populations under Chronic Siege, Kenneth Levin, 
              JCPA, July 2, 2006 
               
               Arab 
              Anti-Semitism Documentation Project (The Middle East Media Research 
              Institute) 
               The 
              Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism 
               The 
              Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism 
               The 
              Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism 
              and Racism 
             
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