On July 3, 2024, the Qatari daily Al-Sharq published an antisemitic article by journalist Fatimah Bint Yousuf Al-Ghazal titled "The People Most Hostile to the Believers are the Jews" (Quran 5:82). In the article Al-Ghazal states that the Jews have been manipulators, cheaters and traitors since the days of the Prophet Muhammad, and that their "rotten beliefs" cause them to cheat and oppress all non-Jews. She adds that the reason no hostage deal has been concluded yet between Hamas and Israel is that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has these typical Jewish traits of treachery and deceitfulness. As an example of the Jews' lack of compassion, she claims that, during World War II, Jewish prisoners followed the orders of Nazi troops to kill Russian prisoners, after those same Russian prisoners had refused the order of the Nazi troops to kill the Jews.
Fatimah Bint Yousuf Al-Gazal (Image: Al-Sharq, Qatar)
Below are translated excerpts from Al-Ghazal's article:
"The Prophet [Muhammad] carried out four attacks against the Jews: The attack against the [Jewish] Banu Qaynuqa tribe, which was the result of the Jews' betrayal; the attack against the [Jewish] Banu Nadir tribe, which was the result of the Jews' treason; the attack against the [Jewish] Banu Qurayza tribe, which was the result of the Jews' treason, and the attack on [the Jews of] Khaybar, which was also the result of the Jews' treason. [The Prophet] emerged victorious in all these attacks and promised that the hour of judgement will [only] come after the world is purged of [the Jews'] impurity. Those who betrayed the best of mankind [i.e. the Prophet Muhammad], what do you think they will do to the rest of mankind? You will never be safe from the manipulations of the Jews. Their cunning, their hatred, their cowardice and their deceitfulness have not changed and will never completely change, for their hearts naturally tend towards treachery, deceitfulness and exploitation, and they love only themselves. Allah was right when He said: 'You will find that the people most hostile to the believers are the Jews' [Quran 5:82]. When they are weak, they use cunning.
"The Jews of Khaybar poisoned the tea of Allah's Messenger [the Prophet Muhammad]. He said to them: 'Did you poison this tea?' They answered: 'Yes.' He said: 'What caused you to do this?' They answered: 'We wanted to see. If you were lying [about being a Prophet, you would have drunk the tea] and we would have been rid of you. And if you really are a prophet, then it would not harm you.' Al-Bukhari published this [in his compilation of reliable hadiths]. He [the Prophet Muhammad] did not punish any of them. They [also] killed the Prophet's companion Abdullah Bin Sahl in Khaybar after they made the reconciliation agreement, when they were weak. They swore by Allah that they were not the killers, so [the Prophet Muhammad] paid the compensation for his death and did not punish them. This is recorded in both of the reliable hadith compilations [of Al-Bukhari and Muslim]…
"Allah said: 'Nay, those who honor their promises and shun evil, verily, Allah loves those who shun evil [Quran 3:76].' This verse teaches us that the Jews are treacherous and disloyal because of their rotten and false beliefs and thinking, which cause them to think that the Arabs' money is theirs to take. They say: 'We can take the Arabs' money because they are not members of our faith and our book [of scriptures] does not grant them immunity.' They traditionally allow injustices against the members of other faiths… [The Jews] do not honor their promises and do not fear God, and this is why they deserve [Allah's] fury…
"A Russian prisoner in World War II wrote in his memoirs: 'In 1941, the Germans forced us to dig a deep trench, and after we did this, they brought a group of Jews, threw them into the trench, and told us to bury them. We refused to do such a despicable thing. The Germans then threw us into the trench instead of the Jews, and told the Jews to bury us. Without hesitation, the Jews started to throw dirt over us. The dirt almost covered us, and then the Germans stopped them and took us out. We were surprised when the German commander addressed us and said: 'I just wanted you to know who the Jews are – they are ungrateful and have no allies.'
"Regarding the efforts of Qatar and the [other] mediating countries to reach a prisoner-exchange agreement as part of a comprehensive deal [between Israel and Hamas] – the negotiations have been resumed multiple times, but with no result. After these negotiations go through all the Israeli, Palestinian, and American channels, they [always] go back to [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu, the radical right's representative in the [Israeli] government, who has all the typical Jewish traits of treachery and deceitfulness. Although all the proposed [deals] have included the return of all the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for all the [Palestinian] prisoners [held by Israel], they all met with [rejection from] the Zionist radical right, which is represented by current [Israeli] Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu."[1]
[1] Al-Sharq (Qatar), July 3, 2024.
