Mick Hartley

Phew. I mean, god knows there are enough Jew-hating rants on MEMRI TV. I've posted quite a few. But this has to be right up there….

Former Iranian ambassador Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri-Abyaneh:

The MEMRI summary:

Former Iranian ambassador to Mexico and Australia Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri-Abyaneh spread libel against Jews on a November 12, 2023 show on Channel 1 (Iran), claiming that Jews drink the blood of Muslim children, “especially Palestinians.” When asked by the show’s host about claims that Jews bake cakes with the blood of Muslim children, Ghadiri-Abyaneh responded that the Jews celebrate the killing of Iranians on the holiday of “Purim.” He continued to claim that Israelis do not treat injured prisoners, instead they harvest their organs and sell them. Ghadiri-Abyaneh also said that the Jews were hated in Germany and elsewhere in Europe because of their teachings, according to which they were encouraged to cheat and deceive people, and accumulate wealth, and he also doubted the fact that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

Iran are the backers of Hamas. What he's saying is effectively no different from Hamas ideology: hatred of Jews, and perpetuating all the classic old antisemitic tropes. And our media treat Israel and Hamas as two equivalents – tending, if anything, to be more critical of the IDF reports than of those supplied by Hamas. The Free Palestine protestors on the streets regard Hamas as freedom-fighting heroes…