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May 21, 2012 6

New Arabic Translation of Talmud Promotes Anti-Semitic Narratives

Update: The Anti-Defamation League pub­licly crit­i­cized the trans­la­tion and called on the Hashemite King­dom of Jor­dan to take steps to cor­rect the mis­lead­ing anti-Semitic nar­ra­tives in the intro­duc­tion to the Ara­bic trans­la­tion of the Talmud.

A newly released Ara­bic trans­la­tion of the Tal­mud – the first of its kind – con­tains an intro­duc­tion that seeks to revive age-old anti-Semitic con­spir­a­cies about the Tal­mud, includ­ing the accu­sa­tion that the ancient text reveals the racist char­ac­ter of the Jew­ish peo­ple. The intro­duc­tion also attempts to paint Israel as the modern-day embod­i­ment of the alleged racist ide­olo­gies found in the Tal­mud.

The trans­la­tion, which was pub­lished by the Mid­dle East Stud­ies Cen­ter (MESC), a Jordan-based think tank, specif­i­cally cou­ples anti-Semitic nar­ra­tives with anti-Israel pro­pa­ganda: “The dis­crim­i­na­tion which Arabs in Israel face is an exten­sion of the racist spirit included in many Tal­mud texts and explanations.”

In an effort to claim that the Tal­mud is an inher­ently racist text, the intro­duc­tion repeat­edly seeks to exploit and take out of con­text cer­tain pas­sages in the Tal­mud, includ­ing decep­tively refer­ring to injunc­tions that seem to “prove” that Jews regard non-Jews as infe­rior. The intro­duc­tion, for exam­ple, notes,
 
“These texts con­firm the racist and hos­tile per­cep­tion toward the non-Jews, espe­cially those who threaten the ‘cho­sen nation’ and stand in the way of its ambi­tions and hopes. There is no doubt that Israel is the best exam­ple of this racist posi­tion, both in the level of its daily crimes against the Pales­tini­ans and the level of its rejec­tion and con­tempt for inter­na­tional res­o­lu­tions and laws. For what applies to other coun­tries in the world does not apply to con­tem­po­rary Israel, as it is unique…Jews, accord­ing to this racist posi­tion [of the Tal­mud], are per­mit­ted to do what is not per­mit­ted for non-Jews.”
 
Else­where in the intro­duc­tion, the reader is informed that the Tal­mud claims that non-Jews are inhu­man, may be tricked or cheated, that it is per­mis­si­ble to kill them, and so on.
 
The con­clu­sion of the intro­duc­tion neatly merges the pub­lish­ers’ anti-Semitic and anti-Israel pro­cliv­i­ties:  “The Tal­mu­dic her­itage has a sig­nif­i­cant impact on the for­mu­la­tion of Jew­ish iden­tity based on holy [prin­ci­ples of] racial isolation…It [the Tal­mud] also estab­lished the extreme posi­tions that advo­cate hatred toward non-Jews, the vio­la­tion of their rights and loot­ing of their lands and prop­erty.” The pub­lisher then refers to the Zion­ist movement’s alleged “crimes” against the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple as an exam­ple of the Talmud’s val­i­da­tion of racist policies.
 
MESC, estab­lished in 1991, is a Jordan-based polit­i­cal think tank that focuses on the Mid­dle East and North Africa. The Cen­ter has a spe­cial unit on Israeli affairs, which mon­i­tors Israel, Zion­ist orga­ni­za­tions and Hebrew-language media. MESC is highly crit­i­cal of Israel, and orga­nized a con­fer­ence last year on the Pales­tin­ian uni­lat­eral dec­la­ra­tion efforts to which they invited senior Mus­lim Broth­er­hood lead­ers as well as Hamas officials.
Al-Jazeera has specif­i­cally pro­moted this book as a con­tri­bu­tion to the “estab­lish­ment of Ara­bic lan­guage Jew­ish stud­ies” as well as claim­ing that the trans­la­tion “iden­ti­fies the fea­tures of the Jew­ish char­ac­ter that blend ele­ments of racial supe­ri­or­ity with Mosaic teachings.”

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May 4, 2012 0

Qaradawi Beats Drums Of War Against Israel in Friday Sermon

Dur­ing his Fri­day ser­mon in the Qatari cap­i­tal of Doha on April 27, rad­i­cal Mus­lim Broth­er­hood cleric Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi denied Israel’s right to exist and called on Arabs and Mus­lims to fight the Israelis.

“Israel thinks it’s set­tled on the land. And we say, by God, you Israelis shall never set­tle on our land. You will remain strangers, you will remain immi­grants,” Qaradawi said. “They must…they must return to their coun­tries, we believe in that, they can­not set­tle here….The Israelis will def­i­nitely dis­ap­pear and get out of this coun­try, and we are wait­ing for this day, we must pre­pare our­selves, and pre­pare our youth. We shall not surrender.”

After say­ing that the Pales­tini­ans “can­not fight alone” because “the Israelis have weapons enough to fight the entire Arabs,” he asked, “Why the Arabs are not fighting?…We call upon all to unite, to tell the Pales­tini­ans we are with you, the least to do is to say to the Pales­tini­ans we are behind you”

Qaradawi also expressed regret that while Mus­lims fail to sup­port their Pales­tin­ian broth­ers, Jews from around the world strongly sup­port Israel with money and weapons, and in pol­i­tics and the media. “The Jews in the entire world, all of them, with the excep­tion of a small group, sup­port Israel.”

Qaradawi ended his ser­mon, which was broad­cast live on Qatar’s offi­cial tele­vi­sion sta­tion, by pray­ing that God destroys the Israelis and enables the Pales­tini­ans to achieve vic­tory “over the ene­mies of God and [the Palestinian’s] enemies.”

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May 4, 2012 0

Muslim Brotherhood Electoral Rally Marked By Call To Restore Caliphate in Jerusalem

Dur­ing a large elec­toral rally in sup­port of Mus­lim Broth­er­hood pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Mohamed Mursi on May 1, Dr. Safawat Hijazi, a promi­nent Islamist fig­ure in Egypt, pre­dicted that under Musri’s lead­er­ship a new Islamic Caliphate will emerge with Jerusalem as its capital.

“We real­ized our dream of the Caliphate is being ful­filled by Dr. Mursi, his group and his party,” Hijazi told the crowd at the foot­ball sta­dium in El-Mahalla El-Kubra. “With his efforts, the united Arabs states will come true and its cap­i­tal will be holy Jerusalem.”

These remarks were fol­lowed by a chant: “I am Egypt­ian with pride… tomor­row Mursi will lib­er­ate Gaza.” Hijazi responded by incit­ing the crowd with his own chant: “Come on, lovers of martyrdom…all of you are Hamas…Come on lovers of mar­tyrs, all of you are Hamas.”

Hijazi, a mem­ber in the Inter­na­tional Union of Mus­lim Schol­ars (IUMS), also told the crowd, “We will not accept from Dr. Mursi and the group any­thing less than the appli­ca­tion of God’s Sharia’ in the land of Egypt.” He con­cluded by issu­ing a fatwa on elec­tion par­tic­i­pa­tion. “The one who does not go to vote in the elec­tions is a sinner.”

Other promi­nent mem­bers of the Broth­er­hood attended the rally and gave speeches focus­ing on Mursi’s Islamic agenda.

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