The Briefest Remark On the Repudiation of Anti-Semitism

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“Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything they want, or else it is war,” Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said in a 2010 interview posted recently by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “This is what these occupiers of the land of Palestine know — these blood-suckers, who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.”

Tezyapar, Sinem. “Are anti-Jewish slogans truly Islamic?” Jewish Journal, January 23, 2013.

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“We will remember in a few days the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Rome,” said the Holy Father, according to Vatican Radio. “We will remember and pray for the many innocent victims of human barbarity, for their families.”

“It will also be an opportunity to keep vigilant so that, under any pretext, any forms of intolerance and anti-Semitism in Rome and the rest of the world not come back to life.”

Pope Francis emphasized that Christianity and anti-Semitism are incompatible.

Catholic News Agency. “Christianity and anti-Semitism are incompatible, Pope says.” October 12, 2013.

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There it is. The assumption that because I am Palestinian, I harbor animosity toward Jews—and not just Israeli Jews, but all Jews, all the time, everywhere.

Nusseibeh, Nuzha. “How Anti-Jewish Jokes Hurt the Palestinian Cause.” The Atlantic. April 3, 2014.

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The culprits responsible for this genocidal campaign to subdue and enslave the Iraqi people are not the CEOs of American oil companies as some disingenuous commentators on the Left have claimed. President George W. Bush’s foreign policy in the Middle East was not his own nor that of the oil lobby, but was the brainchild of the neoconservative conspirators behind the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and other Zionist-oriented think tanks that dominated the Washington Beltway.

Martinez, Brandon. “A Century of Deceit: Iraq, the World Wars, Holocaust Mythology and Zionist Militarism.” Intifada: Voice of Palestine, April 3, 2014.

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KUWAIT CITY – Arab leaders said Wednesday they will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, blaming it for a lack of progress in the Mideast peace process.

AP. “Arab League rejects Israel as Jewish homeland.” Fox News, March 26, 2014.

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Of the many forms of narcissistic contempt and hate for others, anti-Semitism would seem to prove reliably the most self-defeating, self-destructive, and unnatural.

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The Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations was dedicated on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 1, 1962. The Israeli government was represented by Foreign Minister Golda Meir, and the first eleven trees were planted along the path leading to the Hall of Remembrance on the bare hill of the Mount of Remembrance. The trees were placed in the ground by rescuers from different countries as well as by their Israeli hosts – the Jews they had rescued.

“I Am My Brother’s Keeper: Marking 50 Years of Honoring Righteous Among the Nations.” Yad Vashem, Milestones.