“Otherwise, we would expect to see media reports mention the longstanding antisemitism in the region as a factor in the conflict, but they invariably do not.”
Amman, February 26 – Antipathy across the region for Jews going back at least as far as the sixth century CE can be explained as caused by Zionism in the last 150 years, experts agree.
Commentators and journalists analyzing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict concurred in separate contexts this week that the genocidal antisemitism on display from Palestinian groups, pro-Palestine activists, and Islamic supremacists, all of whom represent a continuation of a murderous hatred going back fourteen centuries, stems from Jewish activity since the 1880’s to reestablish Jewish independence in the ancestral Jewish homeland, which sometimes conflicts with the political or ideological positions of non-Jews in the Middle East.
Several dozen articles, broadcast news reports, and columns in the last seven days gave “Israeli occupation of territories seized in the 1967 Six-Day War” or “Israeli control of areas Palestinians want for a state” as the context for hundreds of Palestinian attempts to attack Jews in and around Israel, thus indicating that the murderous persecution born of permanent Jewish underclass status by Islamic Law since Islamic armies conquered the region in the seventh century and, save for a short stint of Crusader control over parts of the Levant, ruled it until 1917, resulted from repeated Arab failures in the twentieth century and beyond to exterminate Jewish sovereignty.
“Obviously, since more than a thousand years of officially-mandated anti-Jewish discrimination in the Islamic world never appears as a cause in these reports,” explained media analyst Kozen da Fect, “that discrimination and persecution, not to mention occasional massacres, must be a result of, rather than a cause of, widespread hate for Jews in the Middle East. Otherwise, we would expect to see media reports mention the longstanding antisemitism in the region as a factor in the conflict, but they invariably do not.”
The counterintuitive phenomenon helps explain numerous instances of journalistic invocation of the years 1948 and 1967 as formative events in the region’s psyche, while ignoring years such as 628 CE, which saw the Battle of Khaybar against the Jews of that town and became a rallying cry against Jews in and beyond the Islamic world ever since, including today: the Damascus Blood Libel of 1840, for example, since it never appears in media as illustrating a phenomenon of continuing relevance to the Middle East’s dynamics, must perforce instead have stemmed from the more recent “usurpation,” in the Islamic view, of “Islamic” land by “infidels” with the establishment of Israel in 1948; had the Damascus Affair reflected a deep, abiding antisemitism on the part of the region’s Arabs that continues to play an important role in Mideast ideology and politics, the competent, objective, sophisticated Western media would certainly give it attention. But it does not, and therefore such antisemitism must be unimportant, or a side-effect of more important, more recent phenomena.
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