Experts Seek to Educate Young Arabs About the Holocaust to Combat Anti-Semitism

[Mingle]

Experts on world anti-Semitism have long known that Arabic-language media outlets and social media are full of anti-Semitic cartoons, articles, and opinion columns that portray Jews and Israelis as evil monsters.

But knowing about the problem isn’t the same as addressing it.

How to deal with the problem was the challenge posed to panelists at the sixth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, in a session titled “Antisemitism in Arabic-Language Mass Media: New Strategies for the Advancement of Inter-Semitic Understanding.” The conference, organized by the Israeli government, was held in Jerusalem last week.

According to a 2017 report from the Anti-Defamation League, President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital exacerbated the anti-Semitism that has existed in many Arab countries for decades.

In some instances, cartoons used “dehumanizing animal imagery, for example presenting Israel as a dog or a worm devouring the Dome of the Rock,” the report says. Another cartoon, in the Qatari press, presented Israel as a blue octopus, with a hooked nose, yarmulke, and pointed teeth, wrapping its arms around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Ari Bell, Middle Eastern affairs analyst for the Anti-Defamation League, said that although the Quran contains some anti-Semitic references, it is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is fueling most of the anti-Semitism in today’s Middle East.

“Arabs view everything through that prism. Once they gain a greater understanding of what anti-Semitism is, it will be easier to converse” about it, Bell said.

Haim Saadoun, director of the Center for Information, Documentation and Research on North-African Jewry during WWII at the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, noted that younger Arabs “have no idea the Holocaust also occurred in Muslim countries in North Africa.”

The center’s Arabic-language website seeks to educate Arabs and others about the Jewish communities in Algeria, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia. The vast majority of Jews in Arab countries fled government-backed persecution in the 1940s-1960s.

“There are hundreds of web pages of Holocaust denial” in the Arab world “but almost nothing in Arabic that combats this denial,” Saadoun said. “We’re teaching Arabs about their own history.”

Arabic speakers from dozens of countries are logging on to the website.

When the administrators asked readers whether they could help identify the details of a photo showing a Jewish man wearing a yellow star, it received hundreds of photos of the location in Tunisia as it appears today.

“We also received a film from a young man in Sfax [Tunisia] showing many Jews going out into the streets when the city was liberated by Allied soldiers on April 10, 1943. For the Muslim viewer, it shows the common fate of Jews and Muslims in Muslim countries,” said Tamar Fuks, Saadoun’s colleague at the center.

Fuks said that for many Arabs, the Holocaust “is subordinated to the Israeli-Palestinian dynamic. They believe that if they learn about the Holocaust they are somehow supporting Israel.”

Abdullah Swalha, director of the Center for Israel Studies in Amman, Jordan, said he never learned about the Holocaust as a student.

“We have to bring this discussion out into the open. We need to know the difference between anti-Semitism and criticizing Israel’s government.”

Swalha said foreign governments that support Arab nongovernmental organizations, including the United States, should make funding conditional on a pledge to steer clear of anti-Semitic statements and publications.

He emphasized that “some people are just ignorant, and that is why education is so important.”



https://sojo.net/articles/experts-seek-educate-young-arabs-about-holocaust-combat-anti-semitism

[Sean-Jobst]

The reason behind this is simple: Convince more Arabs to accept the presence of Israel in their midst and transfer their anger towards "anti-Semitic" Europeans, allowing them to be used by the mostly-Jewish architects of the migration crisis even more as willing pawns at Europeans' expense.

https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2018/01/holocaust-propaganda-aligns-jews-and.html


This attitude was already expressed by the likes of Jack Engelhard and Rabbi Baruch Efrati, and especially the Israeli columnist Avram Ehrlich, who wrote in April 2017: "Indeed a future is not far away when Arabs may justify their cultural domination over Europe while championing Israel and demand re appropriation for the centuries of Semitic denigration. They may yet argue that European values are bankrupt, not fit for governance or international respect, not fair or impartial as demonstrated in its record against Israel and therefore the epoch of European ascendency should come to an end." (http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-europe-falls-to-the-arabs-jerusalem-will-be-silent-2/)

[Svipdag]

How the Hell can they when there is viciously Anti-Semitic propaganda IN THE QUR'AN ?

[jackrussell]

How the Hell can they when there is viciously Anti-Semitic propaganda IN THE QUR'AN ?

500 years they lived in peace in Ottoman times .

Ottoman Law still in effect in Jerusalem by common consent.


Kuran respects the Jews and Christians in peace time.


We see your retarded crusade ; you haven't changed a bit in 1000 years .

:D

[StonyArabia]

The reason behind this is simple: Convince more Arabs to accept the presence of Israel in their midst and transfer their anger towards "anti-Semitic" Europeans, allowing them to be used by the mostly-Jewish architects of the migration crisis even more as willing pawns at Europeans' expense.

https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2018/01/holocaust-propaganda-aligns-jews-and.html


This attitude was already expressed by the likes of Jack Engelhard and Rabbi Baruch Efrati, and especially the Israeli columnist Avram Ehrlich, who wrote in April 2017: "Indeed a future is not far away when Arabs may justify their cultural domination over Europe while championing Israel and demand re appropriation for the centuries of Semitic denigration. They may yet argue that European values are bankrupt, not fit for governance or international respect, not fair or impartial as demonstrated in its record against Israel and therefore the epoch of European ascendency should come to an end." (http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-europe-falls-to-the-arabs-jerusalem-will-be-silent-2/)

Please Europeans have been the prime Zionist proxy especially the British and Anglo-Americans.

[Zroota]

They should definitely get on with it.

[Sean-Jobst]

Please Europeans have been the prime Zionist proxy especially the British and Anglo-Americans.

Throughout much of the history of the modern Zionist movement, yes. But that doesn't negate the fact that Arabs have been more than willing from the beginning to sell out even their fellow Arabs on behalf of Israel. For example, if you look at the 1948 war, the Jordanian King was double-crossing the other Arab countries with his deals with Israel. There are several more examples. Nor does it negate the fact that plenty of Arabs and Muslims are more than willing to be pawns of an open borders policy for Europe that is primarily being pushed by Jewish Zionist organizations.

If you're talking about Jewish interests generally, it was mostly Jews who opened the gates of Iberian cities to the Moors and closely aligned with them and benefitted through them throughout the Moorish occupation. Or research the influence of Joseph Nasi at the Ottoman court in the late 1560s and early 1570s. He manipulated the Ottomans into war against Spain and Venice given his own personal vendettas, and was also a proto-Zionist who advocated Jewish colonization in autonomous Palestine; the Ottomans actually consented to his plan, which only failed after his untimely death. The Ottomans even made him a governor over some Greek islands, in which he became notorious for his harsh policies against the Greeks.... One can also mention the Arab/Muslim landowners in Palestine, who lacked any national consciousness beyond their greed and sold land to Zionists despite the fellahin working that land.

[StonyArabia]

Throughout much of the history of the modern Zionist movement, yes. But that doesn't negate the fact that Arabs have been more than willing from the beginning to sell out even their fellow Arabs on behalf of Israel. For example, if you look at the 1948 war, the Jordanian King was double-crossing the other Arab countries with his deals with Israel.

I am glad with agree me but I am not disagreeing with you. Yep the Hashamite are well known traitors,but who placed them in power was none other than the British. It's well known that Jordanian king treason, was the major reason that the Arabs lost that war, but the West especially America, Britain, and France often supported Israel covertly. The British could not colonize Arabia directly, so they bought some traitors with money, in fact they still role out salary to the Hashamite monarchy, and this was true of House Al-Saud, but they were independent and often had several kings who told the West and the Zionist to hike, like King Fisal who was murdered, may his soul rest in peace.


There are several more examples. Nor does it negate the fact that plenty of Arabs and Muslims are more than willing to be pawns of an open borders policy for Europe that is primarily being pushed by Jewish Zionist organizations.

Yes and No. Remember many of the immigrant wave that's coming to Europe is not from the Arab world, but rather Sub-Sahran Africa, Central and South Asia. Many Arabs can be bought, just like many Europeans. Most of these Arabs want to live in safety, you have to ask yourself why no Omani ever migrates to Europe? Because Oman is one of the safest nations in the world, and is doing well for itself. Yet many of those come have had their nations destroyed by America and it's European allies. However it's form of divide and conquer tactic they are doing of course.


If you're talking about Jewish interests generally, it was mostly Jews who opened the gates of Iberian cities to the Moors and closely aligned with them and benefitted through them throughout the Moorish occupation. Or research the influence of Joseph Nasi at the Ottoman court in the late 1560s and early 1570s. He manipulated the Ottomans into war against Spain and Venice given his own personal vendettas, and was also a proto-Zionist who advocated Jewish colonization in autonomous Palestine; the Ottomans actually consented to his plan, which only failed after his untimely death. The Ottomans even made him a governor over some Greek islands, in which he became notorious for his harsh policies against the Greeks....

Interesting never knew of this. This is the first time I hear that Ottomans had made Jew governor, because they would have not done to this Christian.


One can also mention the Arab/Muslim landowners in Palestine, who lacked any national consciousness beyond their greed and sold land to Zionists despite the fellahin working that land.

I agree with you, those people are regretting what they did, because the're descendants are suffering.

[AK-47]

Experts on world anti-Semitism have long known that Arabic-language media outlets and social media are full of anti-Semitic cartoons, articles, and opinion columns that portray Jews and Israelis as evil monsters.

But knowing about the problem isn’t the same as addressing it.

How to deal with the problem was the challenge posed to panelists at the sixth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, in a session titled “Antisemitism in Arabic-Language Mass Media: New Strategies for the Advancement of Inter-Semitic Understanding.” The conference, organized by the Israeli government, was held in Jerusalem last week.

According to a 2017 report from the Anti-Defamation League, President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital exacerbated the anti-Semitism that has existed in many Arab countries for decades.

In some instances, cartoons used “dehumanizing animal imagery, for example presenting Israel as a dog or a worm devouring the Dome of the Rock,” the report says. Another cartoon, in the Qatari press, presented Israel as a blue octopus, with a hooked nose, yarmulke, and pointed teeth, wrapping its arms around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Ari Bell, Middle Eastern affairs analyst for the Anti-Defamation League, said that although the Quran contains some anti-Semitic references, it is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is fueling most of the anti-Semitism in today’s Middle East.

“Arabs view everything through that prism. Once they gain a greater understanding of what anti-Semitism is, it will be easier to converse” about it, Bell said.

Haim Saadoun, director of the Center for Information, Documentation and Research on North-African Jewry during WWII at the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, noted that younger Arabs “have no idea the Holocaust also occurred in Muslim countries in North Africa.”

The center’s Arabic-language website seeks to educate Arabs and others about the Jewish communities in Algeria, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia. The vast majority of Jews in Arab countries fled government-backed persecution in the 1940s-1960s.

“There are hundreds of web pages of Holocaust denial” in the Arab world “but almost nothing in Arabic that combats this denial,” Saadoun said. “We’re teaching Arabs about their own history.”

Arabic speakers from dozens of countries are logging on to the website.

When the administrators asked readers whether they could help identify the details of a photo showing a Jewish man wearing a yellow star, it received hundreds of photos of the location in Tunisia as it appears today.

“We also received a film from a young man in Sfax [Tunisia] showing many Jews going out into the streets when the city was liberated by Allied soldiers on April 10, 1943. For the Muslim viewer, it shows the common fate of Jews and Muslims in Muslim countries,” said Tamar Fuks, Saadoun’s colleague at the center.

Fuks said that for many Arabs, the Holocaust “is subordinated to the Israeli-Palestinian dynamic. They believe that if they learn about the Holocaust they are somehow supporting Israel.”

Abdullah Swalha, director of the Center for Israel Studies in Amman, Jordan, said he never learned about the Holocaust as a student.

“We have to bring this discussion out into the open. We need to know the difference between anti-Semitism and criticizing Israel’s government.”

Swalha said foreign governments that support Arab nongovernmental organizations, including the United States, should make funding conditional on a pledge to steer clear of anti-Semitic statements and publications.

He emphasized that “some people are just ignorant, and that is why education is so important.”



https://sojo.net/articles/experts-seek-educate-young-arabs-about-holocaust-combat-anti-semitism
If Jews really wanted to combat so called "antisemitism," it might be productive to stop being a noxious an monolithic community of leftards; that preach open borders and multiculturalism, from the comfort of their segregated doorman buildings and gated communities.

[StonyArabia]

If Jews really wanted to combat so called "antisemitism," it might be productive to stop being a noxious an monolithic community of leftards; that preach open borders and multiculturalism, from the comfort of their segregated doorman buildings and gated communities.

LOL

[Sean-Jobst]

I am glad with agree me but I am not disagreeing with you. Yep the Hashamite are well known traitors,but who placed them in power was none other than the British. It's well known that Jordanian king treason, was the major reason that the Arabs lost that war, but the West especially America, Britain, and France often supported Israel covertly. The British could not colonize Arabia directly, so they bought some traitors with money, in fact they still role out salary to the Hashamite monarchy, and this was true of House Al-Saud, but they were independent and often had several kings who told the West and the Zionist to hike, like King Fisal who was murdered, may his soul rest in peace.

I agree and especially about Perfidious Albion. The British Empire was basically aristocratic mercantilists who formed an alliance with the Jewish banking families who came in, and the two often intermarried. The guiding principles were mercantile and is why the British military basically became the armed debt collectors for the Rothschilds, Sassoons and later the Zionist movement. Although I am American-born, as the son of a German immigrant and one who had family who fought in the German Army and some relatives who died in the British bombing raids over our hometown and their other policies, I can definitely sympathize with those Arabs who were also at the receiving end of these British imperialist policies! I say British but it was actually "British" - the interests of the aristocrats and the bankers, which subordinated that island country's policies for their own purposes, much like AIPAC has hijacked my own country's foreign policies away from the traditional American non-interventionism.

I am very skeptical of the Saudis but will concede that Faisal seems to have been independent, which is why they manipulated his crazed nephew to murder him. I will add though that he was more than happy to go along with the CIA and MI5 program initially, when he imported exiled Ikhwan al-Muslimeen activists and academics and consented to oppose Nasser. The Gulf Arab kingdoms and also Jordan inviting all these exiled Ikhwan subversives planted the seeds to some of the bad things we're now seeing in the Middle East. But certainly his working relationship with Sadat in the 1973 war was an unforgiveable act to Henry Kissinger who had his revenge two years later in the majlis.


Yes and No. Remember many of the immigrant wave that's coming to Europe is not from the Arab world, but rather Sub-Sahran Africa, Central and South Asia. Many Arabs can be bought, just like many Europeans. Most of these Arabs want to live in safety, you have to ask yourself why no Omani ever migrates to Europe? Because Oman is one of the safest nations in the world, and is doing well for itself. Yet many of those come have had their nations destroyed by America and it's European allies. However it's form of divide and conquer tactic they are doing of course.

That's why I like to stress that nearly all the migrants coming into Europe are economic migrants and not refugees; Syrians or Iraqis are very few in number, whereas the majority are indeed from North or Sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, Central Asia. Both sides, the advocates of the mass-migration and also some opponents who play into their hands, ignore this by confusing the economic migrants for actual refugees.


Interesting never knew of this. This is the first time I hear that Ottomans had made Jew governor, because they would have not done to this Christian.

Yes, he was from the well-known Sephardic Mendes family which also produced a French President in the 1950s. Joseph Nasi was born in Portugal but fled, bringing him into many countries where he then publicly reverted to Judaism after having been a Marrano crypto-Jew. He ran afoul of Venice and also the King of France owed him a debt; later as a physician and then foreign policy advisor to Sultan Sulaiman, he got the Ottomans to go to war against Venice and also seized French ships to collect his debts. He also was instrumental in the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, largely because the ruling Christians there had prevented Jews from settling the island due to ancient disputes. And especially he convinced the Ottoman Sultan to fight the arch-enemy of the Marranos: Spain. His anti-Spanish intrigues extended also to his deals with England and the Dutch rebels, using his extensive banking and merchant interests across Europe in pursuit of his own vendetta.

This court Jew was so influential that he manipulated Sulaiman into backing his son Selim over his other son Bayezit as successor. Once he ascended to the throne, Selim awarded Joseph Nasi with position of Duke of Naxos, one of the Greek Cycladic islands, in which he became notorious for his harsh policies against the local Greek Christians. Meanwhile, back in Constantinople he was a patron of many Talmudic and other Hebrew publishing endeavors. His intrigues were such that the Sultan also granted him exclusive trading rights in Moldavia and both the Austrian Emperor and Polish King also curried his favor. Joseph Nasi kept his influence over both Sulaiman and Selim but lost favor after Selim died in 1574, after which Sultan Murat came to power and sidelined him in favor of his rival Mehmet Sokullu (who was born a Serbian Christian and represented the "pro-peace" faction which had opposed Nasi's policies against Spain and Venice). He had worked towards creating Jewish settlements in Tiberias and Safed with Ottoman consent, but the logistics were such that it was untenable and he couldn't follow up on it before his death.

[AK-47]

500 years they lived in peace in Ottoman times .

Ottoman Law still in effect in Jerusalem by common consent.


Kuran respects the Jews and Christians in peace time.


We see your retarded crusade ; you haven't changed a bit in 1000 years .

:D
Jews and Muslims never lived in peace.
Muhammad cleansed the Arabian peninsula of Jewish Arab tribes, and when his followers invaded Jerusalem they desecrated the holiest site in Judaism by building a Mosque over it.
Muslims have no respect for Judaism, Christianity or for that matter Hindus.
These are facts.
Jews will not live subjugated to Muslim oppressors and forced to pay the Jizya (infidel tax).