Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

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policeman holding a poster with the message, “Europe You Will
Pay; Your 9/11 Is On Its Way!!!”
• A person hidden behind two policemen holds up a sign reading,
“Kill Those Who Insult Islam.”
• A woman dressed in black with a black hijab carries a sign that
reads, “Be Prepared for the Real Holocaust!”
• A young man holds a sign that reads, “Islam Will Dominate the
World.”
• A poster carries the message, “Behead Those Who Insult Islam.”
• A woman wearing a hijab carries a sign reading, “Freedom Go To
Hell.”
• A group picture shows several signs. One sign reads: “Europe,
You’ll Come Crawling When the Mujahadeen [Muslims involved in
jihad] Come Roaring!’
• In a photograph taken at a Melbourne, Australia demonstration, a
woman in a hijab carries a sign that reads, “Cleanse the earth from
dirty Zionists.” 93
As chilling as the photographs are, they do not convey the atmosphere
of rage and visceral hatred nearly as well as do video clips taken at such
events and made available on YouTube. Most of the clips cited below were
taken at demonstrations that occurred during the Gaza war of December
2008 and January 2009. However, we begin with demonstrations protesting
the Jyllands-Posten cartoons. Like the photographs, the video clips are representative
of Muslim “street” reaction in Western countries to the cartoons
and Israeli response to Hamas’s rockets in 2008-2009. In the West, the
Muslim “street” is, at least in appearance, solidly middle-class. The people
shouting threats and curses do not appear to be fringe people.
• London, February 24, 2006: Demonstration at the Danish Embassy.
Numbering several hundred, the crowd chants “Allah hu Akbar” in
front of the Danish Embassy. A poster is held high reading, “Europe,
You will pay. Your annihilation is on the way!!!” Other signs read:
“Death to you, by God, May Allah Bomb You, May Usamah bin
Laden Bomb You,” “We Love Usama. Usama bin Laden, we love
you!” “Usamah and [Ayman] al-Zawahiri—They Are Men. They
Will Bomb You. Allah Will Be With Them.” “[May they] bomb
Denmark so that we can invade their country and take their wives as
93. This photograph can be found in Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, “Genocidal Chants at
Anti-Israel Rallies Worldwide,” Arutz Sheva: IsraelNationalNews.com, January 6,
2009, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129252.