At MEMRI, excerpts from a Hamas women's TV show, last month:

Egyptian psychologist Dr. Wafa Musa: The terrorist psychology of the Jews derives only from their love of money. The only god or religion of the Jews is money – not the Jewish religion or the dream of the so-called Greater Israel. This is a lie they tell themselves. […]

I always ask myself: Why did Hitler annihilate the Zionists or the Jews? By character, they definitely deserve this. This is why they suffered this massacre or annihilation, and so, they adopt the [Nazi] character, and project it onto the Palestinian people.

They adopt the [Nazi] character, and project it onto the Palestinian people. An argument not unfamiliar to readers of, for instance, Jacqueline Rose.

Kifah Al-Ramali, Gaza Islamic University: The killing of Palestinian women, and women in general, by the Jews is not a random thing. Rather, it is their ideology, which is taught to their children in their curricula. It is mentioned in the books of the Torah. I will present some short samples, although their books are full of this. For instance, the greatest Jewish scholar, on whom they completely rely, Maimonides, wrote in his book that the Jews have the right to rape non-believing women. By non-believing, he meant non-Jewish.

It is their ideology, which is taught to their children in their curricula. An argument not unfamiliar to the audience of Caryl Churchill's "Seven Jewish Children" – based to a large extent on Rose's work.

Good to see a convergence of academic understanding here.

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5 responses to “Cross-Cultural Agreement”

  1. Bob-B Avatar
    Bob-B

    It is not entirely clear how they can simultaneously say that the Nazis were okay because they gave the Jews what they deserve and criticize the Jews for adopting the Nazi character. But then I suppose logical consistency is some nasty infidel nonsense.

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  2. Alvin Lucier Avatar
    Alvin Lucier

    “logical consistency” smacks of Western Enlightenment colonial, patriarchal, Crusading hegemonic hatred of ‘the Other” and other ‘ways’ of ‘being’ ‘right’

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  3. TDK Avatar
    TDK

    I don’t think it’s fair to blame it all on Jacqueline Rose, wrong though she is. Delegitimising arguments by saying that the holder is sick is unfortunately standard practise by some on the left. There’s a long history of Marxists trying to blame disagreements on psychological problems both in the West and in the Soviet Union. She is just one of the latest practitioners. Oliver James occupies similar territory.
    I think what is happening with Israel is a sort of hesitant race. The participants step closer and closer to outright anti-semitism. Each is afraid to move too far ahead of the pack. They all provide intellectual support to each other when challenged and even when not. After all for this generation of Marxists this is unknown territory and they are frightened of getting too far ahead. Nevertheless the direction is clear and seemingly only the ETA is in doubt.

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  4. Cleanthes Avatar
    Cleanthes

    “I don’t think it’s fair to blame it all on Jacqueline Rose, wrong though she is.”
    MH isn’t blaming her: he is making precisely the point you do.

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  5. TDK Avatar
    TDK

    Well I didn’t think I was disagreeing with MH either but I do think I was contributing a different point.

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