Israel Matzav

Who knows more about Islam: Gutman or the Saudis?

Last week, US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman said that anti-Semitism is caused by Israeli policies toward the 'Palestinians.' Omri Ceren writes that Gutman may want to check that claim with the State Department.

Now it could be the textbooks’ Muslim authors just don’t understand Islam as deeply as does Gutman, and so they misunderstand the nature and sources of religiously-grounded Muslim anti-Semitism. Still, just on the off-chance they know something about Islamist ideology that Gutman has overlooked, he might do well to get a couple of copies from the State Department. Hannah Rosenthal​, State’s envoy for combating anti-Semitism, has been complaining fruitlessly about them, so Foggy Bottom probably has some spares lying around.

Interestingly, Rosenthal has expressed herself particularly frustrated by Arab leaders who tried to move discussions over anti-Semitism toward the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Hannah Rosenthal, Howard Gutman, Muslim anti-Semitism, our friends the Saudis

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:17 PM