Deeply Ingrained Antisemitism

The sources of anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist sentiment in the 
Muslim world have been dealt with extensively in many scholarly writings. 
Here, suffice it to recapitulate the main layers of this attitude: 
firstly, the deeply ingrained negative stereotypes of Jews in the Muslim 
sources, those labelled 'descendants of dwarfs and monkeys' both in the 
Holy Qur'an itself, which sometimes lumps together the Scriptuary Peoples, 
namely Christians and Jews, and sometimes singles out the Jews, and in 
Hadith literature, where vast portions are devoted to the denigration of 
the Jews.

Secondly, the Christian anti-Semitic themes of the Blood Libel, the 
Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the world Jewish conspiracy were 
imported, lock stock and barrel, by Christian Arabs in the nineteenth 
century, into the already existing vast arsenal of anti-Jewish 
recriminations and grievances against the Jews. Thirdly, when Zionism 
heralded the return of Jews to their homes in Palestine, the Arab and 
Muslim resistance to that idea wove together all these anti-Jewish and 
anti-Zionist stereotypes into a powerful fabric of political and military 
opposition. And when the State of Israel was founded in 1948, and the 
fears of the Arabs and the Muslims became a reality, new waves of 
anti-Semitism, this time translated into anti-Zionism and anti-Israelism, 
erupted, following the fortunes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Every time 
the dispute rose to new summits, for example, after the Palestinian 
Intifadah and the 11 September horrors, the Arabs and Muslims lashed out 
mercilessly at the Jews, Israel and Zionism, while during the rare periods 
of tranquility and conciliation, those eruptions were likely to subside.

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