Zahar: chagrijnige woordvoerder van de democratisch gekozen Hamas regering van Gaza.
Machmoud Zahar heeft weer eens een antisemitische uitspraak gedaan. Het stond uiteraard niet in onze kranten (niet online in ieder geval) want die waren te druk met melden dat Israelische grenswachten bij de Gazastrook corrupt waren en smeergeld vroegen aan bedrijven om goederen naar Gaza te exporteren. Inderdaad niet fraai, maar noem mij een land in het Midden-Oosten waar geen corruptie is? Maar natuurlijk: als de zionisten het doen is het tien keer erger want zij weten wat het is om onderdrukt en uitgebuit te worden, zij noemen zich Westers en menen zelf beter te zijn dan de buurlanden... Hoe dan ook: Zahar kan zeggen wat hij wil en het zal de Westerse media, politici en Midden-Oosten deskundologen en oorlogsactivisten een zorg zijn, maar als Ovadia Yosef zijn mond weer eens open doet dan schreeuwen ze moord en brand.
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Hamas leader claims Holocaust was a lie
The Anti Defamation League condemned the remarks made by a senior Hamas official on Thursday, who claimed that the Holocaust was "a lie that has crumbled," and suggested that Israel had committed "countless Holocausts" on the Palestinian people.
Mahmud Zahar, a senior leader of Hamas made the remarks during a memorial service for 43 Palestinians killed at a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp during an Israeli military incursion into Gaza in December 2008.
ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman issued a statement, "once again, the abhorrent and hateful philosophy of Hamas has reared its ugly head, polluting the public square with Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. These comments are a disturbing reminder of the virulent anti-Semitism promoted by Hamas and the ongoing threat the group poses to Israel.
"To compare the atrocities of the Holocaust to the actions of "Zionists" is an affront to truth and history. It is an insult to the six million Jews and millions of others who perished as a result of the Final Solution, and to those who fought the Nazis during World War II.
We must never forget that the Holocaust was a systematic effort to rid the world of the Jewish people," he continued.
Foxman concluded by stating that, "Through its incitement against Israel, Hamas continues to show that it is not a partner for peace and reconciliation, nor a force of moderation. The anti-Semitic ideas expressed by Zahar do not occur in a vacuum, but are a carbon copy of the rhetoric of Hamas's major supporters, Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
Mahmud Zahar, a senior leader of Hamas made the remarks during a memorial service for 43 Palestinians killed at a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp during an Israeli military incursion into Gaza in December 2008.
ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman issued a statement, "once again, the abhorrent and hateful philosophy of Hamas has reared its ugly head, polluting the public square with Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. These comments are a disturbing reminder of the virulent anti-Semitism promoted by Hamas and the ongoing threat the group poses to Israel.
"To compare the atrocities of the Holocaust to the actions of "Zionists" is an affront to truth and history. It is an insult to the six million Jews and millions of others who perished as a result of the Final Solution, and to those who fought the Nazis during World War II.
We must never forget that the Holocaust was a systematic effort to rid the world of the Jewish people," he continued.
Foxman concluded by stating that, "Through its incitement against Israel, Hamas continues to show that it is not a partner for peace and reconciliation, nor a force of moderation. The anti-Semitic ideas expressed by Zahar do not occur in a vacuum, but are a carbon copy of the rhetoric of Hamas's major supporters, Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
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