Palestinian author condemns Antisemitism
Now this is bravery. Sadly, there isn't one Israel hater who would applaud this man, which really says it all.
A Palestinian TV cultural program interviewed a Palestinian author who criticized the tendency to demand hatred of Jews.
Author Ounallah Abu Safieh: “Why now, in the present situation, do I hear that I have to hate the Jew because he is a Jew? No!”
Official PA TV, March 14, 2016
He argued that from a religious perspective, God is one and the source of all religion. He also argued that in the past, Jews, Christians and Muslims lived together and that Muslim leaders often had Jewish advisors:
“I also see that all of us are from one source, even the religions. Servant of the One God (the main character in Abu Safieh’s book, Ed.) has a theory about the matter of religious division. The source of religion is one, and what is added was created by man in his opinion. It is something that we men created, which caused one to be a Shi'ite, one to be a Sunni, one a Christian, and one a Jew. Originally He is one. As the source is one, what prevents me from praying in a church, or a mosque, each one according to his way? [...] Salah Al-Din's doctor was a Jew. In the kingdom of Muslim Spain, all of the advisors in Muslim Spain, the advisors of the kings and rulers were Jews, those in charge of the treasury and economy and information.”
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=17665