My Dear Sisters and Brothers,
I felt it necessary to write this article, because I am worried about the frightening rise of physical attacks on Jews around the world – Jews who have otherwise done nothing against Muslims; I genuinely fear the people who are willing to believe what anti-Jewish propagandists say about us, in order to turn humanity against us. I honestly fear another Holocaust. That is why I am so grateful to all the brave and courageous non-Jews who stand up for us – including moderate Muslims.
Warning: Some people might find what I have written below to be distasteful – many of the embedded links (in bold blue) are disturbing – but it has been written in response to the infinitely more distasteful and horrifying things being said around the world about Jews. What I’ve written here pales in comparison – at least what I’ve written is true. They are uncomfortable facts that some people don’t like to read, and because these facts rarely get an airing, people end up basing their opinions on a narrow and false iteration of the truth, because that’s all they’re allowed to hear. In this article, I want to explain:
— how and why Islamic Jew-hatred began with Mohammad, not the Palestinians
— why the Jews of his time could not accept him as a prophet
— what Mohammad was really like
— how land conquered by Muslims has to stay Muslim (and cannot be returned to its original religions or peoples, which is the real reason why Muslims object to the existence of Israel)
— how Westerners have developed a blinkered view of extremist, political Islam, covering their eyes and ears to the awful things going on in the world
— how the radical left in the West is being conditioned to think it is acceptable to harass and persecute Jews, ironically partnering up with and defending extreme far-right Islamists
— how non-Muslims suffer terribly in Muslim-majority countries (which Westerners don’t allow to be reported in the news, because it would be seen as Islamophobia)
— and why Palestinians don’t want a two-state solution.
The General problem with perspectives in the West
Most people in the West have been gradually conditioned to think that the current hatred towards Jews in the Muslim community is all because of the Palestinian issue. Westerners have been trained, through subtle but cleverly misleading propaganda, to believe that the present animosity directed by Muslims towards Jews is all because of the existence of the State of Israel. However, people would be wrong on both counts – the current worldwide persecution of Jews by fundamentalist Muslims and their allies, is not because of the Palestinian issue, and it’s not because of the State of Israel. The deception is done to divert attention from the fact that the hatred of Jews amongst Islamists originated with Mohammad. The Muslim / Jewish conflict is not 75 years old, it is 1,400 years old – as old as Islam itself.
Yeshua’s teaching
Yeshua taught us, “I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves,” (Mt 10:16). This means that Followers of the Way are meant to be kind and peaceful, but that the world is not always like us; therefore, we should never be naïve, blinkered, gullible or foolish. We have to be clever and shrewd in how we deal with the world (Lk 16:8), because wicked people will always try to manipulate us, and take advantage of our kindness – they will depend on a good person believing everything that a wicked person tells them. Their deceptive tales are clever, but we have to be cleverer than them, so that we are not fooled. Hamas is a cult of death which has engrained itself into Gazan culture, and they know how to manipulate western sympathisers.
In Judaism and Christianity, we are taught to love our neighbour as ourselves, and not to oppress foreigners living among us (Ex 23:9). In contrast, this is how fundamentalist Muslims in Britain are being told by their imams and scholars to behave towards towards their kuffar (non-Muslim) neighbours, because that’s what Mohammad himself taught. Please click on the link and let them tell you themselves.
The current worrying situation
The main reason I wrote this article, was because I wanted to play my small part in helping prevent another Holocaust. The main reason why the Holocaust was allowed to happen, was because ordinary Germans were gradually convinced that it was socially acceptable to persecute and murder Jews, because ‘Jews deserve it’. Watching and reading the news every day, with reports of blatant, unashamed, anti-Jewish hatred, I fear that that is where some people in the West are willing to head nowadays. They listen to the anti-Jewish propaganda all around them, and they fall for the deception.
There are so many attacks in the UK on British Jews, that many Jews here are considering leaving. At pro-Hamas demonstrations in London, if Muslims call for the extermination of Jews, and a lone Jew holds up a sign calling Hamas terrorists, it is the Jew who will be arrested by police, even though Hamas is a proscribed organisation in the UK (this has happened on multiple occasions).
Anti-Jewish hatred should not be countered with anti-Muslim hatred
We Jews simply want to live in peace with people of any religion and of none, and be good neighbours to people who are not trying to kill us. It has always been the goal of Judaism, as a religion overall, to prepare the human race for the time of universal peace spoken of by the biblical prophets, when all peoples, religions and nations will live side by side in peace – this future time has been promised by God to all humanity.
Through everything I say here, I am still a Talmidi, and I stand firm for Talmidi values – I look at the child of God first, and I am always willing to listen to different points of view. However, I do not tolerate hatred, violence, or evil. Being a good person does not mean closing our eyes and ears to the dangers of the world, or by becoming tolerant of aggression, persecution and murder; doing so is ignoring God’s command not to stand idly by the blood of our neighbour (Lev 19:16). You have to criticise and rebuke wrongdoing when it happens (Lk 17:3), because the greatest threat to peace and good is to deliberately turn a blind eye to evil.
So on the one hand, I state unequivocally that I do not dislike Muslims. If I meet a decent, moderate Muslim, I will always accord him or her the same politeness and courtesy I would show to my fellow Jews – I am a servant of God, and I genuinely feel that that is what God requires of me. On the other hand, I always make a distinction between the personal religion of moderate Muslims, and the inherently fundamentalist religion of Islamists, of Mohammad, and of the Quran.
Islam, as originally conceived by Mohammad, was basically a form of religious fascism (and that is what it still is in fundamentalist Islam). It was designed to give him unlimited power, and to his people, the Arabs, an efficient vehicle of conquest and subjugation of other peoples. People in the West would be shocked to learn about the kinds of things that happen in Muslim-majority countries (to women, children, gay people, people who leave Islam, certain animals such as dogs, which are considered forbidden in Islam, etc) – actions all instituted and encouraged by Mohammad himself.
I also need you to know that I do not support or excuse the misdeeds of right-wing Jewish settlers in the West Bank, who commit violence against Arabs. I am deeply saddened by the deaths of ordinary Palestinians, as much as I am by the deaths of Israelis and my fellow Jews in general. On the other hand, I am unreservedly and unapologetically opposed to all forms of fundamentalism and religious violence. I make no excuse or defence for my position on this matter; if I criticise the violence and cruelty shown by fundamentalist far-right Muslims, it is not Islamophobia, just as criticising the violence of fundamentalist right-wing Jews is not anti-Semitism.
The true origin of Islamic hatred towards Jews
When Mohammad was alive, most Jews did not accept him as a prophet. I have been watching videos on a multitude of Islam-related topics, by both Muslims and ex-Muslims, in order to hear both sides (ex-Muslims tend to give a more complete picture, while Muslims are more likely to hide the nasty bits). Over the past 25 years I have learned a lot about the life of Mohammad, and I have to say that, in all good conscience, I too cannot consider him to have been a prophet.
Mohammad said, “even the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him!” (Sahih al-Bukhari 2926, Book 56, Hadith 139, explaining how the final day of redemption for Muslims will not come until every Jew is killed).
He was a violent war-lord, a caravan-robber, a genocidal Jew-hater, a paedophile, a sex-obsessed lecher, a slave-trader who initiated the large-scale enslaving of Africans, and above all, a narcissistic cult-leader, but he was no prophet. It was the refusal of Jewish people in his time to accept him as a prophet which turned Mohammad against the Jewish people, and prompted him to say the most vile things about us. Knowing what I now know about his life, words, attitudes and deeds (all from the Muslim hadiths themselves, written by Muslims who knew him), I would have to agree with the assessment of Jews from mediaeval times that he was not a prophet.
(Incidentally, sex with children is allowed in Muslim-majority countries, as is marrying underage girls, simply because it was something that Mohammad did; this is the culture that the far-left in the West supports and defends).
The Islamic hatred of Jews dates back to Mohammad; it did not start with the Palestinian / Israel conflict. Mohammad said that Jews are “the worst of creatures” (Quran, 98:6). Fundamentalist Muslims have been persecuting and slaughtering Jews since Mohammad’s time. If you watch videos about what fundamentalist Muslims themselves say to their fellow fundamentalists, they openly admit this – there is no attempt to hide it.
Before the 7th century CE, there was a considerably large Jewish population in Arabia – there were in fact whole towns and villages that were Jewish, dating back to the time of the Queen of Sheba. Mohammad gave the Jews of Arabia an ultimatum: Either convert to Islam, leave Arabia, or be slaughtered. Shortly after Mohammad’s death, there were no Jews left in Arabia. Today, there are virtually no Jews left in most Middle-eastern countries, because they have all ethnically cleansed their countries of their Jewish populations.
I strongly encourage you to listen to this Palestinian woman from Gaza, who describes the culture growing up in Gaza, and how it is ingrained into them that peace is never an option between ‘Palestine’ and Israel. They are taught to want to die, to love giving their children over to death, and to hate Jews. Cursing is a form of prayer, especially if it is to curse non-Muslims; she describes how ‘Palestinians’ are deliberately kept as refugees by the Arab world as a weapon to hit Israel with, as permanent victims, and how if the Arab world so wanted, it could turn Gaza into a paradise, but that would mean that they then have nothing to bash Israel with. She describes how western media is complicit in perpetuating the status quo – of endless Palestinian suffering – because they perpetuate a false narrative. She describes how ending the so-called ‘occupation’ would not bring freedom and democracy to ‘Palestine’, because such a thing does not exist in Islam. Most of all, she emphasises that hatred of Jews is not because of Israel, it’s because of the teachings of Islam. She never knew that religion could be about wanting peace for everyone until she visited a synagogue and a church in America.
Land conquered by Muslims has to remain Muslim
Another concept that people in the West do not understand about the Muslim-Israeli conflict, is how Muslims believe that once a country has been conquered and taken over by Islam, it cannot and should not return to the ownership of its original people or its native religions.
For example, Spain was invaded and conquered by Muslim armies in the 8th century. Arabs from North Africa then moved in and colonised it, and assisted with the forced conversion of indigenous Spaniards. From then on, the native Spaniards began trying to take back their own land, and the Reconquista was finally completed in 1492 with the retaking of Granada. It is the only other country to have been successfully taken back and returned to its indigenous people.
However, Muslims around the world never forgave this reconquest, because they believe that Spain was now eternally Muslim land, and Spaniards committed a crime against Islam by taking their country back. The reconquest flies in the face of the Muslim belief that Islam is the superior and stronger religion, and cannot be defeated (the Quran considers Muslims to be superior to all other religions, and the natural place of Muslims is to be in authority over everyone else). Islamists believe even now that Spain should be retaken for Islam.
This is the real reason why the taking of any part of the Holy Land for the Jewish State is so egregious to Muslims (even if only one square mile was given over to the Jews, and the rest of the Holy Land remained Muslim, that would still be unacceptable in Islam). The Holy Land was conquered by invading Muslim Arab armies in the 8th century, seized from the indigenous Jews, Samaritans and Greek Christians (ask yourself: what peoples were living in the Holy Land before the invention of Islam in the 7th century – they were not Arabs, and they were not Muslims). Most Samaritans, along with many Jews and Christians, were pressured into converting to Islam through oppressive measures mandated by the Quran, designed to make it difficult for indigenous non-Muslims in any conquered country to live freely in their own land.
For example, non-Muslims had to pay the jizya (a tax extorted from non-Muslims, as per the Quran, as mafia-like ‘protection money’, Quran, 9:29 – “Fight against the people of the Book [Jews and Christians] who [….] follow not the Religion of Truth (i.e. Islam), until they willingly pay the jizya, having been brought under subjection”). Jews and Christians often had to wear identifying symbols and clothes to make them stand out as non-Muslims; they were not allowed to display their own religion’s symbols in public, and their religious buildings were not allowed to be larger or taller than Muslim ones. Under such pressure, the Samaritan community fell from a few hundred thousand before the invasion, to just a couple of hundred within only two generations of the Muslim Arab conquest.
These measures in the Quran are designed to suppress and wipe out the indigenous culture, so that the local people lose their native identity. In North Africa, for example, native Coptic Egyptians are a minority in their own land, with the majority now identifying as Arab. Syria used to be Aramean and Christian, Lebanon was Phoenician and Christian, and Iraq was Assyrian and Chaldean Christians; most Kurds used to be Yazidis, Persia used to be Zoroastrian, Afghanistan used to be peaceful Buddhists, Pakistan and Bangladesh used to be Hindu.
Over the last 1400 years, literally millions of Africans and Indians were either killed or taken away as slaves (to learn about the disturbing reason why Arab countries don’t have millions of descendants of African slaves in their country, read this X / Twitter post).
Before the crusades, in relentless Muslim attacks on southern Europe, thousands of Europeans were captured and taken as slaves in the Muslim-dominated slave-trade. In modern Muslim-majority countries, non-Muslims such as Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Yazidis, Druze, Zoroastrians and Bahai’s suffer terrible persecution (such as in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria). However, none of it is ever reported in the West, because to do so would be classed as Islamophobia.
The mythical Two-State Solution
The other myth that people in the West believe is that the Palestinians want a two-state solution, and so uninformed western leaders vigorously press for it. The view that the Palestinians want a two-state solution is a fallacy, because the two-state solution has been rejected time and time again by Palestinians over the last 80 years. Organisations such as Hamas want a one-state solution – an entirely Arab, Islamic state, with no Jews, and no Christians, Druze or Bahai’s. When they call for a Palestinian state, they mean the erasure of Israel off the map, the ethnic-cleansing of Jews, and complete replacement with a Muslim-only Arab state.
There have been numerous times in the past when the Arabs of the southern Levant were offered a Muslim state of their own, most notably in 1948. Most Westerners don’t know that ‘the British Mandate for Palestine’ covered what is now Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank (but not the Gaza Strip, which I shall come to in a moment). ‘Palestine’ wasn’t just Israel, it was Jordan as well.
When the UN offered a partition plan, the entirety of Jordan and most of the Holy Land was assigned to the Arabs, and a small strip of land along the coast – mostly swamp that Jews had cleared to live on – was given to the Jewish people (the Negev in the south is all desert). The Jewish people accepted this plan, but the Arabs rejected it, even though they were offered the majority of the land in the British Mandate (remember, the British Mandate of Palestine was both Israel and Jordan; there was no cultural difference between Arabs in Jordan and those in the Holy Land, they were all Levantine Arabs, speaking the same dialect).
Before 1948, the Jewish people bought all the land they lived on; before 1948, Jews did not take any land from Arabs – that’s Palestinian propaganda. The Arabs simply did not want any infidel Jewish state on land that had been conquered and colonised by Arab Muslim armies in the 7th century (always remember that Islam, as it was originally designed by Mohammad, was the biggest and most violent colonising project in history).
Then when Israel gained independence from Britain, the surrounding Arab armies invaded. The result was that the West Bank and East Jerusalem were taken over by Jordan (killing or expelling all Jews in the process). The Gaza Strip, on the other hand, was already part of Egypt. From 1948 to 1967, the Arabs in the West Bank were Jordanians, and the Arabs in the Gaza Strip were Egyptians, not Palestinians. During those 19 years, there was no attempt to create a ‘Palestinian’ State in the West Bank or Gaza. In contrast, the Arabs living in Israel-proper were happy to live in a free, democratic Israel, where they had more freedom than they ever would have in any Muslim Arab country – this is certainly the case for Muslim women. Despite what people who hate Israel say, there is no apartheid in Israel.
Summary
In summary, these are my main points – and if you don’t believe me, you are most welcome to research them for yourself:
1. The current, worldwide animosity of Muslims against Jews was not provoked by Israel (Israel is merely an excuse they give to westerners who don’t know any Islamic history). Islamic prejudice and hatred against Jews dates all the way back to Mohammad
2. Mohammad was a violent and genocidal man who killed anyone who disagreed with him, alongside anyone who would not accept him as a prophet and convert to Islam; he was not a prophet of our God. He embarked on wars to ethnically cleanse Arabia of all its Jewish population
3. Once a land has been conquered by Islam, it cannot return to its indigenous people or its native religions; this is the main reason why Palestinians do not want a two-state solution, and have rejected all offers of a two-state solution (they will only accept a one-state, Muslim-only solution)
4. Historically, when Muslims have conquered a country, they impose economic and social restrictions on the indigenous population, in order to pressure them to convert to Islam (ask yourself, who were the indigenous people of the Holy Land before the invention of Islam)?
5. The Arabs rejected the original division of the British Mandate of Palestine (i.e. what is now Israel and Jordan), where they were offered the majority of the land, and have rejected all offers of a two-state solution since
6. Arabs in Israel have more freedom in Israel than they do in Muslim-majority countries; Arab Muslims can do any job they like in Israel, and go anywhere in Israel. There is no apartheid in Israel.
As I said, if you don’t believe me, you are perfectly at liberty to research all this for yourself.
Blessings and peace to all peoples and religions
Shmuliq