Arab Sexual Blood Libel Against Israel

A.P. photo/ GregorioBorgia -- Abbas

Palestinian Authority (PA) security chief Tewfik Al-Tirawi claimed on Abu Dhabi TV “that Israel recruits Palestinians to sexually harass their own mothers and sisters as part of a comprehensive strategy to harm Palestinians.”

“ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “This is simply the latest example of another Palestinian blood libel against Israel and the Jewish people. Tragically, because it is said to Arabs, in Arabic, and not to Westerners in English, these hateful, vile and monstrous assaults on the name of the Jewish people receive precious little attention, especially where it matters most – among leaders of Western democracies, including the United States.

“PA officials have previously blamed Jews for poisoning water supplies and arable land, faking evidence of the Holocaust, using drugs to destroy Palestinian society and other obscenities – and this only underscores how Mahmoud Abbas has done nothing to end the incitement to hatred and murder in the PA-controlled media, mosques schools and youth camps that feed terrorism.”

“Abbas sometimes claims that he does not have a sufficiently large security force to combat terrorism. But he does not need a security force to order his own senior PA officials from uttering calumnies like these, or to stop PA newspapers from publishing outrageous lies, or to fire clerics who incite hatred in their sermons. All he needs to do is give the order. But then the ZOA has no expectation of a man like Abbas who is himself a Holocaust denier and who told a Fatah rally in Ramallah in 2007 that ‘The sons of Israel are mentioned as those who are corrupting humanity on earth.’”

“We urge the Obama Administration and the Netanyahu government to cease ignoring the reality of Abbas’ extremism and lack of credibility as a peace partner…and to sever all ties to him and his corrupt, terror-supporting and anti-peace regime.  We also urge them to demand of Abbas that he publicly repudiate this blood libel uttered by his own security official.”  (11/25 press release by ZOA, headquartered in New York and of which I am a member.  Source is MEMRI.)

ZOA gave this report depth, by showing that Arab blood libel is recurrent, crazy, and inexcusable and that Western officials hold their noses to whitewash Abbas extremism. 

Palestinian Arabs have made many sexual assaults on Israeli women, but Israelis so seldom do on Arabs, that a leftist study confirming IDF morality attributed it to racism.  Jews are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.