Haj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, hosted a delegation of American Christian tourists exactly 90 years ago.
He was anxious to explain to them how he is not antisemitic at all, as reported in The Palestine Bulletin of August 5, 1930.
“The Moslems cannot admit that the Jews are the Chosen People. The chosen man must be the best man, as for example President Hoover in America, so the Chosen People must be the best people. This does not coincide with reality,” he told his guests.
But, he insisted, Muslims in Palestine did not dislike Jews because they are Jews, but only opposed Zionists. Apparently, Jews could never be the best people, but they are OK.
Immediately afterwards, again making sure that he was sayin what he assumed his audience wanted to hear, he described the Jews in Palestine as “a foreign people which persecute Christ and tried to crucify him.”
Today, there are still lots of people who insist that they have no problem with Jews, but only Zionists. And their arguments are just as believable as the Mufti’s.
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