Western Indifference to the Palestinian Culture of Hate

palestinianA shockingly, disturbing video has recently surfaced exposing the true and pernicious face of Palestinian extremism and xenophobia. The video, made available by Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows a bearded sheikh giving what appears to be an impromptu sermon on the Jews. (After all, what else is there to talk about?) The venue is the Al-Aqsa Mosque, considered by those who practice the “religion of peace” to be their third holiest site after Mecca and Medina.

The speech itself is filled with gut-wrenching anti-Semitism, the kind that would even make the editors of the New York Times blush. The sheikh describes how the Jews possess the vilest of traits, how they were responsible for killing the “prophets,” how they attempted to assassinate Muhammad, how their time for “slaughter is near,” how they will be slaughtered “without mercy,” and of course there’s the perfunctory, “Jews are apes and pigs” thing.

Interestingly, the speaker doesn’t mention the longing for Palestinian statehood or independence. Instead, he talks of the establishment of the “Islamic Caliphate.” “Oh Allah’” he states, “Hasten the establishment of the State of the Islamic Caliphate,” and further rants, “Oh Allah hasten the pledge of allegiance to the Muslim Caliph.” He spews forth the latter statement three times to chants of “Amen!” from the large, approving crowd congregating around him.

These comments, which would register horror and revulsion in the West (at least in some quarters) are almost banal among Palestinians. In fact, a similar video featuring a different speaker some days earlier at the same venue, conveyed identical sentiment, expressing admiration for the Islamic State and calling for murder of Jews and annihilation of America.

Guttural anti-Semitism is ingrained and interwoven in the fabric of Palestinian society. Despite their minuscule numbers, 78% of Palestinians believe that Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars while a whopping 88% believe that Jews control the global media and still more believe that Jews wield too much power in the business world.

Much of the blame for this can be placed squarely on the doorstep of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, which subjects the Palestinian population to a steady diet of hate-filled, Judeophobic rhetoric through state-controlled media and educational institutions. It is so well entrenched that the process of deprogramming, if it were ever attempted, would take generations to reverse.

Some of the blame however, rests with the Obama administration and the European Union, which continues to fund the Palestinian Authority with an endless supply of taxpayer money without demanding any form of accountability. Western money is openly used to fund the Palestinian Authority’s hate apparatus with money flowing into institutions that propagate anti-Semitism and encourage terrorism.

Some Western media outlets are also culpable in perpetuating the Palestinian culture of hate. The New York Times for example has frequently and diligently covered so-called “price tag” vandalism attacks; a practice universally condemned by nearly all Israelis and vigorously prosecuted by Israeli authorities but rarely, if ever, covers the type of venomous hate speech witnessed in the above-noted videos.

Hate crimes inspired by this type of pernicious speech are also routinely ignored. Highlighting this point is the disturbing case of Asher Palmer, an American citizen who, along with his infant son was murdered when a rock thrown by a Palestinian crashed through the windshield of the car he was driving, hitting him flush in the face. The New York Times ignored the gruesome murders and only mentioned the incident in passing a few days later in the context of a reprisal “price tag” attack against a mosque. Under the unbelievably skewed editorial policies of the New York Times, it took an act of vandalism, ostensibly committed by Jews, to highlight the horrific murder of Asher Palmer and his infant son at the hands of Arabs.

The practice of ignoring such malevolence partly stems from the fact that the New York Times wishes to present a certain narrative at the expense of the facts and partly stems from a systematic inability of some Western media outlets to hold Arabs to a Western standard of decency and morality. Thus, Arab anti-Semitism, the same kind of anti-Semitism practiced in Europe some 75 years ago, is either ignored or attributed to mere cultural differences.

Indeed, the New York Times no longer even bothers to hide the fact that it engages in duplicitous double standards when it comes to reporting Palestinian-Arab racism and hate speech as evidenced from a telling exchange between New York Times’ opinion page staff editor, Matt Seaton and Tamar Sternthal, a director at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).

Rarely is the sort of vitriol witnessed in the videos expressed in English to Western audiences. Only the crassest among them publicly share their feelings about Jews, and the West for that matter. But behind closed doors it’s an entirely different story. Groups like MEMRI, CAMERA, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) and many others do an excellent job in exposing the malevolence hiding just beneath the surface. The problem is no one seems to care. No one cared 75 years ago either.

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  • Larry Larkin

    Nothing to see here, move along, it’s only workplace violence /sarc off.

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    Apparently the pathetic are excused for their vicious thoughts and behavior. Anyone given the “victim” label, and all Muslims are now in that category, can express the most hideous hatred with impunity.

    The self-loathing left has created a double standard that damns civilization and coddles barbarians. Civilization, i.e. those in power, are suspect despite creating flourishing societies with civil rights and unlimited opportunities. Backwards cultures that fail under pressure of an ethos of blind obedience to vicious dictators, 7th century religious ideologies, and vilification of Jews, are automatically “noble savages” just because they are pathetic.

    • wildjew

      If Senator Ted Cruz is a player in the 2016 nomination for U.S. president, I hope he will request the party remove language from our national party platform in support of a Palestinian, Muslim-enemy state in Israel’s heartland. Then the self-loathing left will be truly exposed for coddling barbarians. As it stands now, my party (the GOP) coddles barbarians and savages, only not as zealously as the left does.

  • Hard Little Machine

    If the last 2000 years of western history is any benchmark, then it’s not indifference or ignorance but varying degrees of open support.

  • Gee

    I challenge part of that statement “The speech itself is filled with gut-wrenching anti-Semitism, the kind that would even make the editors of the New York Times blush.” There is no such speech that could ever make the NYT editors blush, they wholeheartedly approve of such speechs

  • cree

    Notice the caption: the idiot is actually accusing Allah of creating an evil people. Why would their beloved Allah do such a thing and hence forth, Allah’s infidels and especially Jews are an existence injustice to Muslims?

    Allah has surely screwed things up for Muslims and they are all about fixing it, by Allah.

  • StanleyT

    Ouch! I sincerely hope there is no need for Holocaust Museums around the world resulting from the fight to defeat Islam

    • Bryan Schmick

      One of the purposes of ‘Holocaust Museums’ is to remind the world of evil. There is a need for the reminder.

      The radical Muslims have filled the void left behind by the Holocaust causers and the world needs to be reminded of that.

      Someday, we may have generic museums that remind the world of barbarism, but that hasn’t really happened yet in the main stream.

  • RMThoughts

    Unlike others, we can at least talk about it without name calling.

  • mollysdad

    “It is so well entrenched that the process of deprogramming, if it were ever attempted, would take generations to reverse.”

    This establishes it as conclusive that we need another Nakba.

  • MargieMcTrouble

    I don’t know if it even can be called mental illness with the genetic changes to many of their brains from their concerted line breeding.

  • nopeacenow

    Too many Muslim terrorists would have to be absorbed into Israel. Jew hatred is in the Koran. It can’t be removed without outlawing Islam.

    • Ellen_L

      However, it might be isolated into a small area and given no financial or other help administering its needs. Build a big wall around it if necessary and exile those who advocate terrorism or harm to Israel there. Perhaps they could be kept busy trying to survive and learn to adapt to modernity.

  • Jamie Krasnoo

    The only reason for Islam’s white knuckled grasp of that putrid pile of rubble on the Temple Mount they call a mosque is to deny Jews their right to reconstruct the Temple and gain full access to the holiest site in Judaism.

    • Ellen_L

      Actually, I saw something about the Mosque on PBS in a show about Jerusalem. It is a lovely building that has been over time a mosque then a church and then a mosque. It is beautifully decorated and designed. The rock inside is thought to be sacred to Abraham and all his offspring. The idea of destroying such an artifact belongs to those who think like other destroyers of anything they are not part of.
      A better idea would be to make it a sacred temple open to everyone with either no denominational ceremonies or access at various times to each. To split the space with walls would destroy its beauty and integrity. And of course, stop refusing to let Jews pray on the Temple Mount.

      • Jamie Krasnoo

        I thought for a long time about what you said and I think it’s an absolutely terrible idea. 1. That mosque is occupying land that rightfully belongs to the Jews. The Temple was originally there (twice built) and taken away. Saying that it should be there for all is an excuse to deny it to Judaism. 2. The mosque was erected as a insult to Jews and Christians, a symbolic statement of Islam’s superiority. In other words, A BIG MIDDLE FINGER TO US! By it’s location to Jews and its internal decor to Christians. Therefore it is an insult to both and must be torn down.

  • Chris Gait

    So this hate-filled vermin is standing in the temple, perhaps treading on the Holy of Holies, and saying this. Seems to me there have been some changes in procedure since the Torah was written. If anyone deserved the earth opening up to swallow him it was this guy, but he’s just walking around, wolfing down falafel and whistling a little tune.

  • Ellen_L

    Perhaps a good solution would be an area that was designated as the Arab Islamic part of Israel that that those who want a state can administer and pay for. It could be officially under Israeli control as in a federal system like the US has states within a wider nation. All those who want to live in such a state could move there and see how they like Islamic law. Everyone else including Arabs and others could then live as Isrealis with talk provoking treachery against Israel as reason to be exiled to the other area. After a while they might decide to learn to administer a civil governance.

  • Lanna

    Its open hostility to Jews. The Palestinians will never prosper in their antisemtism against Israel, they never learn down through the ages. I wonder if they realize this….their lives are forever futile as they live for evil. Same as the protestors in New York saying kill the police, they will never prosper or be happy with those attitudes.

  • Dan Knight

    Thank you, Ari: And I’m glad you’re exposing Pravda N.Y., so we don’t have to.