Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of Antisemitism
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,2 (2012) 595-612
Keywords:
Ḥusaynī, Amīn,
;
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah
;
Ikhwān al-Muslimūn
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish-Arab relations
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
Abstract:
Many critics of Israel deny that Palestinians or Arabs harbor antisemitic prejudices or genocidal intentions vis-à-vis the Jews, and dismiss their anti-Jewish rhetorics as a mere byproduct of the wrongdoings of the State of Israel. Argues that antisemitism has tainted the Arab Palestinian national movement since the early 1920s, and, since the 1930s, antisemitic hatred for the Jews was a principal factor motivating its leader Haj Amin al-Husaini. It was this hatred which pushed him and his helpers to form an alliance with the Nazis. The genocidal antisemitism that drove al-Husaini in the 1930s-40s is still extant today in the ideology of Hamas and of the Muslim Brotherhood. Presents numerous public declarations by the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, revealing his aggressive antisemitism. Qaradawi and other Islamic legal experts working under his tutelage have elaborated an interpretation of Islamic law that makes it a moral duty for all Muslims to work toward the destruction of Israel and to kill Jews. Ignoring the genocidal potential of the ideology of Palestinian nationalists prevents Israel's critics from making correct assessments of some of the Israeli measures taken in the past and present as being dictated by an Israeli fear of genocide and terrorism rather than purposeless crimes.
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