When things get stirred up in the Middle East, the (sometimes) latent antisemitism shows its ugly head.
Three examples, all prompted by the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Egypt’s Al Masry al Youm has an article that pretends to argue that Israel isn’t a state to begin with, but is akin to Al Qaeda – a “base” [Al-Qaeda’s literal meaning] that exists only from US support but has no long term chances. But until that happens, the author says, “we can only boycott the political base of the American base Israel and its Jewish inhabitants.”
No boycotting Israeli products, but only Israeli Jews.
An article in the pro-Erdogan Yeni Safak Turkish newspaper includes this section:
Zionism is a pathology that emerged from the special historical conditions of the relationship between Judaism and the West. This is what the social psychoanalysis of Judaism shows us. Here, political Judaism turns, along with a distorted Jewish faith, into a cursed organization, a utopia, a goal and ties. Efforts are made to solve the problem of pariahdom with domination formed around the awareness of supremacy. The historical and sociological grief, massacres, deprivations and grudges that come with pariahdom are tried to be overcome with the response of supremacy. This is the fantasy to turn Jews into masters who command the whole world. The ideology of eliminating enslavement through the enslavement of others. The obsession of solving enslavement by producing slavery. This is what Zionism is in the complete sense.
Of course, the intelligentsia would call this merely “anti-Zionism.”
Finally, a bar association in Egypt decided to protest the Trump decision with a protest:
The lawyers who participated in the protest rejected the American decision and chanted, “Khyber Khyber, oh Jews .. Mohammed’s army will come back.”
A threat to eradicate the Jewish presence in the Middle East.
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