Israel Matzav

'Our friends the Saudis': 'US supports Israel because it wants to get rid of its Jews'

Former Saudi Minister Ali Al-Namla claims in this April 6 interview with Saudi Arabi's al-Majd TV that the US supports Israel because it wants to get rid of its Jews.



By the way, according to historian Deborah Lipstadt (in response to a similar claim by a Syrian cleric discussing Franklin on Al-Jazeera), the claim about Benjamin Franklin wanting to deport Jews is 'completely false.'

No proof of this statement has been found in anything Franklin said. In addition, it contains language that was not used in Franklin's times, e.g. homeland. Moreover, the statement never surfaced before the 1930s. And it comes from a book which no one has ever seen.

If you need more evidence that this a hoax and an antisemitic canard, the ADL has done a good analysis of the history of this fraudulent claim. Significantly, this ADL piece quotes a number of leading Franklin scholars who debunk this nasty effort.

Now we have to ask how this cleric got this information? It only surfaces on antisemitic and White Supremacist websites. I guess we know where he and his cohort are rummaging.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:04 PM