Friday, 22 April 2011


MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute


MEMRI Daily: April 22, 2011

The following is research published today from MEMRI’s Special Dispatch Series and the MEMRI TV Project.

*Special Dispatch Series

Special Dispatch No. 3781—Jordan/Tom Lantos Archives on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial

Article in Jordanian Daily: Israel Replicating the Deeds and Laws of the Nazis

In an article titled "[Israel] Inherited Nazism and Outdid It," Husni 'Ayesh, a columnist for the Jordanian government daily Al-Rai, claimed that Israel is emulating the laws and actions of the Nazis, and attacked the West for supporting it.

Following are excerpts from the article:

The West's Support for Israel Exposes Its Hypocritical Stance on Human Rights

"It is clear to all that the Arab information efforts and the Arab media flinch from exposing Israel's laws to the world, and the Nazi deeds it commits on a daily basis against the Palestinian people. [At the same time,] they [merely] observe and perhaps even turn a blind eye to the Zionist-Israeli information efforts, which sully the image of the Arab ummah in the world every time an Arab government, group, or individual commits some dastardly or inhumane deed – such as the public flogging of the Sudanese girl [on the orders of] Al-Bashir's unenlightened government – depicting such incidental occurrences as if they happen every day, in every Arab or Muslim place.

To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5221.htm.

Special Dispatch No. 3780—Palestinians

Israeli Arab Journalist Zuheir Andreus: Israel's Laws Resemble Nazi Laws; Israeli Arabs Must Exploit Nakba Law to Delegitimize Israel

In an article in the Israeli Arab weekly Kul Al-Arab titled "Exploiting the Nakba Law to Delegitimize Israel," Israeli Arab journalist Zuheir Andreus, who also writes on the Israeli news website Ynet and in the London Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, called on the Arab public in Israel and on its leaders to exploit the Nakba Law, recently passed by the Knesset, in order to delegitimize Israel in the eyes of the international community. The law enables the cutting of state funding to any bodies which negate the existence of Israel as a Jewish state or its democratic character; mark Israel's Independence Day as a day of mourning; support armed resistance or racism, violence, and terror; and which desecrate the Israeli flag or its national emblem.

In his article, Andreus said that Israel's laws were reminiscent of Nazi laws, and called on Israeli Arabs to participate in an international campaign to delegitimize Israel and "expose its disgrace." He proposed ways of circumventing the Nakba Law in order to ensure that the Nakba would be instilled in the consciousness of the coming generations. Finally, he stated that the Palestinians were "neither guests nor sojourners" in Israel and that anyone who disliked this fact could take the next plane back to the country from which he came to Palestine.

An edited Hebrew translation of the article appeared in the Israeli daily Haaretz, with a number of key omissions and alterations.

To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5220.htm.

Special Dispatch No. 3779–Democratization in the Arab and Muslim World

'Al-Sharq Al-Awsat' Editor-At-Large: The Talk in 'Some Of Our Arab Capitals' About an Israeli Conspiracy Behind the Uprisings Is 'An Insult To the People'

In an April 7, 2011 op-ed in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, titled "Arab Revolutions and the Israeli role," Osman Mirghani, the paper's senior editor-at-large, dismisses claims by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh that Israel is behind the uprisings in their countries. Noting that "Israel would rather deal with individuals or despotic regimes, rather than democratic regimes that respond to the voters' opinions and public pressure – particularly after it has seen that the peace agreements that were signed with Egypt and Jordan have failed to result in complete normalization of relations," he concluded by saying, "The talk we are hearing in some of our Arab capitals about an Israeli conspiracy is an insult to the people and their demands for freedom and dignity."

To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5219.htm.

*From The MEMRI TV Project

Former Hamas Minister of Culture 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh: "The Jews Are the Most Despicable and Contemptible Nation to Crawl upon the Face of the Earth"

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Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by former Hamas minister of culture 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on April 8, 2011:

To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2897.htm.