MEMRI: Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: The Quran Tells Us to Drive the Jews Out of Palestine in Its Entirety

Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, one of Hamas's leaders in Gaza, said that "removing the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle" appearing in the Quran, and said: "Our position is: Palestine in its entirety, and not a grain of soil less." Speaking on Al-Aqsa TV on March 8, Al-Zahhar advised Hamas and the Islamic Jihad never to mention the 1967 borders, as "this becomes like part of a joint plan."

Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: "Allah says (in the Quran): 'And drive them out from wherever they have driven you out.' How do the linguists interpret the word 'from'? The Quran talks about driving you out 'from where they have driven you out.' From where did the Jews drives us out? From within the 1967 borders or the 1948 borders? From within the 1948 borders. So you should drive them out from within the 1948 borders, like they drove you out. Hence, removing the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle, because it appears in the Book of Allah. 'Drive them out from wherever they have driven you out.' So in light of this verse, we say that our dispute with the Palestinian factions that talk about the 1967 borders is one pertaining to faith. On this issue, we base ourselves upon our religion, while you do not.

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"(The Quran says:) 'They will enter the mosque as they entered it the first time.' Entering the mosque means entering the capital, and entering the capital means liberating Palestine in its entirety, and the implementation of the decree: 'Drive them out from wherever they have driven you out.'

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"Let me advise our brothers and sisters from the Islamic movement – from Hamas and Islamic Jihad – never to use the term '1967 (borders).' When the 1967 borders are mentioned, and then we make certain exceptions, saying, 'so long as we don't relinquish...' and so on, this becomes like part of a joint plan. We have liberated Gaza, part of Palestine, but I am not prepared to accept just Gaza, and later... Our position is: Palestine in its entirety, and not a grain of soil less. (The Quran says:) 'Kill them wherever you may find them' – Allah did not define the 1967 borders or the 1948 borders. We will fight them wherever we can – on the ground, underground, and if we have airplanes, we will fight them from the skies."

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: In Arabic, Muslims freely admit that the Quran is antisemitic

In August, I gave the highlights of an article from a Dubai newspaper called "The Qualities of Jews in the Quran."

To summarize, here were the attributes of Jews described in the Quran according to Muslims themselves from that article:

1. Jews steal money
2. Jews use usury to enrich themselves and impoverish non-Jews
3. Jews don't care about human life
4. Jews are cowards, hiding behind fortified walls
5. Jews betray all agreements and covenants
6. Jews distort words of holy books
7. Jews are killers of prophets and other fine people
8. Jews want to extinguish the light of Allah
9. Jews bring corruption to the lands they are in

Now, an entirely new article with the identical title has been published in Felesteen. The list is different, too, although it does overlap.

So here is the Palestinian Arab list of the qualities of Jews:

1. Jews have knowledge of the truth but they conceal it among themselves and give bad advice to others so they can profit.
2. Jews are miserly
3. Jews obtain other people's money unjustly, using usury and fraud and deception
4. Jews are cowards, hiding behind fortified cities and building walls and living in ghettos
5. Jews insist on doing sin
6. Jews circumvent things that are forbidden
7. Jews are foolish

Both articles back up these lists with specific citations of Quranic verses.

These are not coming from anti-Islam sites. These are not some apologetics written in English to pretend that the Quran is not antisemitic. These are two independent articles, written two months and a thousand miles apart, by two different Muslim scholars for Muslim audiences, meant to describe factually how the Quran thinks of Jews - and how Muslims are supposed to think of Jews.

The topic of Muslim antisemitism is minimized and swept under the rug in mainstream Western media, or it is attributed to hate for Israel. But these articles prove that Jew-hatred is baked into the source texts of Islam, and Muslims are quite open about this among themselves.

The West must stop pretending that somehow Muslims are only anti-Zionist. Muslims are taught to denigrate and hate Jews. Antisemitism isn't an anomaly among Muslims; it is regarded as a religious obligation!