CAIR-LA Official: Antisemitism

[Mosby]

CAIR-LA Official: Antisemitism “Was a Way of Persecuting” People for Falsely Claiming They “Descended from Historic Palestine”

Shaheen Nassar, Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles chapter, said during a June 11 event that antisemitism “was a way of persecuting a group of people for… this false historical allegation that they had descended from historic Palestine.”

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported that Nassar made these remarks during a lecture at the Islamic Society of Orange County. “The reality of course, as most historians recognize, is much of European Jews and much of the European Jewish colonizers of Palestine are all descendants of medieval converts to Judaism, and that realistically the blood of the ancient Israelites most likely flows in the blood of Palestinians,” he added.

Nassar did acknowledge that “antisemitism is a real thing. I may not necessarily agree with its relevance to the issue of Palestine, but antisemitism is a very real thing, and there are white supremacists out there who hold Jewish lives and Muslim lives and Palestinian lives with equal contempt.” He also referred to the Irgun and the Haganah, which were Zionist militia groups during the 1948 War for Independence, as “death squads” that eventually morphed into the Israel Defense Force, called Zionism a “supremacist ideology,” and claimed that “Palestinians and Arabs are semites themselves.”

https://jewishjournal.com/news/337946/cair-la-official-antisemitism-was-a-way-of-persecuting-people-for-falsely-claiming-they-descended-from-historic-palestine/

[Behind the Aegis]

1. What a bigot. An antisemitic bigot to be exact.

Can't say I am in the least bit surprised, nor would I be surprised to see this "reinforced" and ahistorical bigotry surface again, but not in right-wing corners.