Examples of anti-Semitism at a symposium on the “Semitic race” held in Abu Dhabi
On August 28, 2002, a symposium devoted to the subject of the “ Semitic race ” was held in Abu Dhabi. It was organized by the Zaid Center for Coordination and Monitoring of the Arab League, headed by Sultan bin Zaid Aal-Nahyan, and attended by Arab writers and intellectuals who investigated various aspects of the Semitic race.
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Muhammad Khalifa al-Mrar, the executive director of the Zaid Center , noted that “they [the Jews] stole Palestine on the excuse that they were the real owners of the land… they claimed that the Arabs, who are the real Semites, are anti-Semitic… the Jews lied to the whole world when they claimed they were Semitic and persecuted and it was all done to justify their own crimes… The Jews try to hide their non-Semitic roots. ” |
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Al-Mrar also said, “the [famous German] philosopher Kant said that the Jews excelled in deceit and fraud. That is not a baseless claim , and it shows the tendency they have always had to be money-lenders [and usurers] . There are other philosophers who have agreed with Kant, as did the greatest theologians of his generation. That proves that the opinions about the Jews were not created by Nazism , which only arose 200 years later. |
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Dr. Ahmed Khalifa Hussein, head of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Cairo University, noted that since its founding, Israel has exploited anti-Semitism in its conflict with Arabs and Palestinians. He said that “the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion after the First World War provided a firm foundation for the anti-Semitism which had already spread throughout the world, because The Protocols spoke of the existence of the Jewish desire to control the world .” |
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Muhammad Hamoud Abu Ghadir, professor of modern Hebrew literature and Israeli studies at Al-Azhar University, said that “the Zionist institutions presented the acts of the Nazis, or what they call the Holocaust , as a completing stage in anti-Semitism. They do it to realize political goals while characterizing the Jews as the chief victims of the Holocaust… Their repeated remarks about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism are part of a plan [i.e., a conspiracy] based on the exploitation of cases of murder and acts of violence committed against the Jews in Europe as a pretext for furthering the establishment of a national homeland for themselves in Palestine.” |
During the holy Muslim month of Ramadan (December 2001),the Abu Dhabi television station daily broadcast a viciously satirical, anti-Semitic program called “Irhabiyyat” (“Terrorism Tales ” ) . It was broadcast every evening in prime time when the daily fast ended. Broadcasting anti-Semitic programs during Ramadan has become a common occurrence in recent years throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
The bloodthirsty figure of Ariel Sharon as depicted in the satirical show, “Terrorism Tales”
Cartoons
| 2004 [the small world is dependent on (i.e., controlled
by) Israel - represented by a much bigger Star of David] |
1948 [newborn Israel, represented by a small Star
of David, is dependent on the larger globe] |
The stereotype of
the ugly (or broken) Jew
 Release of the Lebanese captives (Al-Wattan, January 30, 2004) |
 Al-Wattan, January 21, 2004 [an Arab figure breaking a figure of Ariel Sharon made of a large stone] |
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 Racism (Al-Wattan, January 13, 2004) |
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