Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

eing afraid to admit that the Holocaust was "a ploy made by the Zionists". In 2006 he
trivialised the number of Jews killed by the Nazis. "What's that six million all about? Is there
six million?‖ and when questioned on this in 2007 said ―I, like many researchers in the
world, shy off the number of innocent victims‖. It should be noted that in recent years he has
justified anti-Jewish terrorist murders.
Hilaly compared the January Israeli bombing of Gaza to the Holocaust, branding Israeli
leaders as ―butchers‖ whose ―Zionist racism‖ was creating another Holocaust, saying in an
interview in The Australian ―When we remember the atrocities of the Holocaust – it seems
that what we are seeing is another Holocaust‖. (His comments were widely condemned, but
defended by Antony Loewenstein. See 5.? Below) (6/2/09). At a ―Defence of Gaza‖ rally
in Sydney (18/1/09) demonstrators displayed placards comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
and of carrying out a ―Holocaust‖ and ―Death to the Jews‖ was chanted in Arabic, after
speeches by John Pilger and Hilaly.
Another prominent personality, Sheikh Feiz Mohammed of the Global Islamic Youth Centre
in Sydney, sold and posted lectures and videos on YouTube, such as one ―In it the Sheik
tells a parable about a Jewish man who deflowers and impregnates a Muslim virgin only to
kill both her and the baby. The Jew then renounces his faith in a deal with Satan and is
crucified by the girl‘s three Muslim brothers. He goes on to compare modern western
society with a stinking toilet.‖ (7/12/08). Another high-profile Islamic figure, Melbourne‘s
Sheikh Omran, publishes a newsletter Mecca News, which includes defamatory attacks on
Judaism, primarily through misrepresenting The Talmud.
Blatant antisemitism, including promotions of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,
appeared on The Mission Islam web-site. It not only links to the overtly antisemitic
www.jewwatch.com site but contains a section ―The Truth About the Talmud‖ which
contained a list of fraudulent and out-of-context statements designed to portray Judaism as
ridiculous and violently hostile to all non-Jews. Under the sub-heading, ―Sick and Insane
Teachings of the Talmud‖, the following appears: ―Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had
sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden; Yebamoth 63a. Declares that
agriculture is the lowest of occupations.; Sanhedrin 55b. A Jew may marry a three year old
girl (specifically, three years ―and a day‖ old); Sanhedrin 54b. A Jew may have sex with a
child as long as the child is less than nine years old; Kethuboth 11b. ―When a grown-up man
has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing.‖; Yebamoth 59b. A woman who had
intercourse with a beast is eligible to marry a Jewish priest. A woman who has sex with a
demon is also eligible to marry a Jewish priest; Abodah Zarah 17a. States that there is not a
whore in the world that the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex with.‖; Other subheadings
included ―Genocide Advocated by the Talmud‖ and ―Moses Maimonides:
Advocate of Extermination‖.
One of the pages on Mission Islam linked directly to the home page, ―New World Order‖,
identified ―Freemasons / Zionists‖ as the ―Dajjal‖. It linked to a number of overtly
antisemitic audio files such as ―the lies of the Jews‖, ―USA‘s Rulers: The Jews in the US
Government. There‘s so many of them it‘s like a cockroach infestation. Add some to your
hit-list‖, ―The Truth About the Talmud‖ and ―Who is the Evil Dajjal (the anti-Christ)‖.
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