Another Muslim who doesn’t know history

In their attempt to erase Jews from the history of the world (here’s a hint: Israel is where Judaism began), yet another Muslim—this time a Sufi, and a proponent of interfaith relations—spread the lie of the Holocaust being Israel’s origin.

One day after the tragic killing of two baby brothers in Nazareth, a leading Suffi Sheikh from the same town, who has been heavily involved in interfaith dialogue for two decades, equated the dispossession of Palestinians from their land in 1948 with the Holocaust.

Sheikh Abdel Salam Manasra, Secretary General of the High Suffi Council in the Holy Land, also equated Zionism with idolatry.

“Just as it says in the Bible that there were Jews who worshipped Ba’al [a type of ancient idolatry] so too there are Jews today who are Zionists,” said Manasra.

“You are not a Jew as you should be if you [support] Zionism,” he added. “Zionism is a bad thing.”

Manasra rejected the idea that Israel was a Jewish state or a homeland for the Jews.

“After the Europeans brought a Holocaust on the Jews, you Jews came here and brought a Holocaust on us,” said Manasra. “None of the Europeans responsible for the Holocaust paid the price. Instead, I paid the price because I lost my land.”

Let me point out that this is supposed to be one of the Muslims who is a friend of Jews. Apparently, the mask has fallen off.

Until Muslims and their supporters stop lying about the origin of Israel, there will never be peace. And when the lie of Israel’s establishment has seeped so far into the mainstream as to have been uttered by a Jewish columnist in the Washington Post, it is not going to be easy to get Israel’s enemies to stop believing in the myth that Israel was established in 1948, and that the Holocaust was the reason. Israel was established thousands of years ago, and was a nation before Islam existed. Stop lying about the facts.

Israel was, Israel is, and ever shall be.