Bloodthirsty Liberal

Really, this is the mother lode of all such posts:

Palestinian antisemitism has long been recognized as a vehicle of hatred. From academics teaching that Judaism permits murder and rape of non-Jews, to religious leaders teaching that Islam demands the extermination of Jews, Palestinian antisemitism is a compelling force driving hatred and terror.

The Palestinian Authority depicts Jews as the archetypal force of evil throughout history. Jews are said to be responsible for all the world’s problems: wars, financial crises, even the spreading of AIDS. Jews are a danger to humanity.

Whereas this paradigm has been used before, the Palestinians take it a step further, turning demonization of Jews into the basis for Palestinian denial of Israel’s right to exist and a central component of Palestinian national identity.

Are you reading, Mr. President? You should be.

Because of Jews’ evil nature, according to this Palestinian principle, nations of the world have been involved in continuous defensive actions to protect themselves. The antisemitic oppression, persecution and expulsions suffered by Jews throughout history are presented as the legitimate self-defense responses of nations.

Ibrahim Mudayris, a PA religious official, delineated this ideology: “The Jews are a virus similar to AIDS, from which the entire world is suffering. This has been proven in history… Ask Britain!… Ask France!… Ask Portugal… Ask czarist Russia - who invited the Jews and they plotted to murder the czar!… Don’t ask Germany what it did to the Jews, since the Jews are the ones who provoked Nazism to fight the entire world” (PA TV, May 13, 2005).

The apex of this Palestinian ideology, and possibly its purpose, is to use this demonization of Jews as the basis for denying Israel legitimacy and to present Palestinians as the ultimate victims. According to this Palestinian model, the Jews, who are said to have no history in the land, would never have considered coming to “Palestine”: Europeans created Zionism as the final act in the long series of self-defense measures, to rid themselves of the “burden” of the Jews.

One could cite dozens of examples. The authors settle for a few.

They conclude:

In other countries, antisemitism has been a tool to promote hatred for a variety of internal reasons. As such, when hatred was no longer necessary, antisemitism as a government policy could be eradicated, as in post-Nazi Germany. But the goal of PA demonization of Jews transcends mere hatred. Antisemitism is its political tool to defame Zionism, deny Israel’s right to exist and create victimhood as the glue that cements Palestinian national identity. Because this political goal will exist as long as Israel exists, Palestinian antisemitism will be much harder to uproot.

So, it’s not about adding a rec room in Shiloh, or a half bath in East Jerusalem. It’s not really about the Jews at all. As usual, the pathology is about the sick, perverted mind that invents it. Blaming the Jews for the Palestinians’ woes is like blaming Jodie Foster for John Hinkley.