“The truth is not difficult to destroy, but a lie well told is immortal,” Mark Twain. American journalist and writer (1835-1910)
Massacre in Baghdad
The persecutions suffered by our Sephardic or Mizrahi brothers in Arab or Muslim countries are not such a well-known topic for Ashkenazi Jews. In general, in this part of the globe, and for European Jews and for the Gentile public in general, the Kishinev pogroms (1903), or the anti-Semitic attacks in the city of Odessa (1821-1859-1871-1881) are sadly famous. -1806-1905), and these occurred in territories that previously belonged to the former Russia of the Tsars. The causes or triggers had to do with some obviously false accusation against the Jews blamed for the disappearance or death of a Christian child (accusation of a ritual crime), or on the contrary lynchings set up by the authorities themselves in order to direct the fury of the masses over the social or economic crisis and blaming the Hebrews for this. And obviously, in this way avoid questions about their government policy or the prevailing corruption.
The Arabic version of the pogrom (storm, destruction and devastation) can be found on June 1 and 2, 1941, in Baghdad (then capital of the Kingdom of Iraq), where the Jewish population was attacked, with several dozen deaths and rapes and many injured, with homes and businesses looted. Probably in this case, the substratum had to do with the political tensions of the time, and the harmony of large sectors of the Arab populations with Nazism, which was already annihilating Jews in any part of Europe where it had put its paw. Hitlerian.
This pogrom was not limited to Baghdad, it is also said to have included attacks on Jews in other cities such as Mosul, Kirkuk, Basra, Amara, and Fallujah.
Also in Palestine
The Arab fury against their defenseless Jewish neighbors also shows us a cruelty bordering on maximum bestiality, and we have examples of this in the Hebron massacre on August 23, 1929, which left 67 dead. In this case the instigator was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Amin Al Husayni), later a close collaborator and ally of the genocidal Adolf Hitler. This guy fueled this devastation by spreading the false rumor that the Jews intended to burn down the Al-Aqsa Mosque. All this in Palestine under the British Mandate.
To this culmination, other attacks followed in the city of Safed, and also Tiberias on October 2, 1938, which resulted in 19 deaths, stabbings and arson crimes.
blood libels
The monstrous accusation that Jews committed ritual crimes to obtain the blood of Christian children and use it to make matzot for the Jewish Passover, although it originated in the West, soon spread to Arab and Muslim countries. At first at the initiative of certain resident Christian communities and consuls and ambassadors. Many cases were recorded, such as in Aleppo in 1810, and in Damascus and Rhodes in 1840. Whenever a child or priest disappeared, the Hebrews were in imminent danger of being accused, under an absurd argument but one that had high penetration among the masses for They are generally totally ignorant about the Jewish religion and its precepts.
In modern times
The appearance in Russia of the libel of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, attributed to the Russian secret police, which denounces an alleged Jewish conspiracy to oppress the people and dominate the world. And along with other blood libels such as the trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis in 1911 for the disappearance of a Christian child. The pogrom organized in November 1938 known as “Krystal Night” in the middle of Nazi Germany. The massacre in the town of Jedwabne where more than a thousand Jews were burned alive by their Polish neighbors in Poland already occupied by the Teutons on July 10, 1941. And the last and painful pogrom of Kielce in Poland on July 4, 1946 , also motivated by the disappearance of a 9-year-old boy who years later confessed that he was not touched by the Jews and that he used to leave his home and hide in a nearby forest or go visit other relatives.
Any excuse is valid...
To accuse and attack the Jews. And obviously, direct the hatred or resentment of the masses, in the face of hardships or disasters or calamities that could befall groups or collectives or countries. The Jew becomes the Target or the favorite scapegoat. Since he has stigmas and taints imposed since long ago, and clearly he works with a psychological mechanism of projecting blame on the other.
In this way, the powerful and governments usually try to sustain themselves and avoid criticism or stop revolutions or popular uprisings.
Back to the Muslims
And even reviewing history, the persecutions suffered by the Almohad tribe and the situation of the Jewish quarters were not always so good under Al Andalus (name given by Muslims to the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages) .
Anyway, today, under the cover of the Arab-Israeli conflict, reading of the book “My Struggle” by Adolf Hitler has increased in all Arab countries. Furthermore, on many Internet pages, Arabs gain many adherents of anti-Semites who today obtain a protective umbrella to criticize Israel with the excuse of pro-Palestinianism. And for those of us who are searchers, we can find many cartoons with stereotypes of Jews that are a faithful copy of typical Nazi propaganda. Today Arabs and Muslims feed on these medieval fantasies but adapted to the 21st century, where Jews poison the Palestinians' water, or are murderers of Arab children, etc. This is what is called Islamo-Nazism, and it is very active and has high penetration in both Europe and America. Furthermore, the new Arab immigrations, both in the old continent and in these lands, for the most part do not reciprocate with gratitude to their host countries, and what has been called "Clash of Civilizations" occurs. The impossibility of harmonious coexistence , and where thousands of these migrants are already impregnated with hatred against Israel and the Jews. Finally, they usually come into harmony with protest movements with a certain violent left or with indigenous or marginalized groups or African Americans, where they achieve conversions of individuals with a violent matrix which then end in terrorist attacks and immolations.
To conclude, the Russian-made “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” has been a go-to book for individuals such as Gamal Abdel Nasser, and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
Not in vain, recently in Egypt, the series “Knight without a Horse” was all the rage on the small screen, and it was nothing more and nothing less than the Arabic version of the Protocols in fictional and televised form.
In Argentina we have the Creole version “El Plan Andinia” (Jewish conspiracy to take over the Patagonia of our country), and we also suffered two terrible attacks in 1992 and 1994 against Jewish whites. Iran, the Hezbollah group and citizens of the local Arab community are involved in these attacks as accomplices and collaborators.