Democrats are more anti-Semitic than the Middle East now

 Andrea Widburg:

Over the past few years, Democrats, from Obama on down, have escalated their fetid mixture of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic rhetoric.  In the Middle East, however, the Trump administration's peace efforts have resulted in an extraordinary de-escalation of those same sentiments.

On the American left, there can't be any doubt that Democrats are increasingly hostile to Israel.  For example, among those strong enough to read Obama's 768-page homage to himself, several have noted his hostility to Jews and to the Jewish state, views that Obama has long held, going back to his time in Rev. Wright's anti-Semitic church and attending a party for Rashid Khalidi, Yasser Arafat's former spokesman — an event so vile that the Los Angeles Times still refuses to release the video.

Robert Spencer noted that Obama, as he did in 2009 with his Cairo speech, still believes that the Palestinians are indigenous to the land and that Jews are the interlopers.  He's got it bass-ackwards.  The modern Palestinians drifted into the land beginning in the early 1830s, while the Jews' tie to the land extends back well over 3,000 continuous years.  Likewise, Henry Ergas noticed that Obama managed to use classic anti-Semitic imagery to describe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Farrakhan-supporter Raphael Warnock got support from Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Linda Sarsour, all three of whom are known for openly anti-Semitic remarks.  There was also the spectacle of Rashida Tlaib, Peter Beinart, and Marc Lamont Hill, all of whom insist they're not anti-Semitic, getting together to spin anti-Semitic tropes.

In the Middle East, things are different.  Although the Saudis have not yet signed onto Trump's Abraham Accords, which create a new paradigm of peace in the Middle East, they are trying to reduce anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist content from their textbooks:

"While the latest… report did not find that new tolerant material had been injected into the curriculum, it did find a substantial amount of offensive material had been removed," IMPACT-se, which reviews educational material, said in a statement.

It found that the books no longer include a religious prediction of a war in which Muslims would kill all the Jews — a prophecy it said had served as a foundation for much of the anti-Semitic attitudes in the Muslim world.

And the classic anti-Semitic trope that Jews, identified as "Zionist forces," use villainous methods, including money, women, and drugs to control the world has been dropped.

That is wonderful and extraordinary news.  Maybe California could take some lessons from the Saudi reformers.

The UAE, meanwhile, is going all in for normalization with Israel, and the Israelis are loving it:

Over 50,000 Israelis have visited the United Arab Emirates since the recent normalization pact between Israel and the UAE, according to a report this week in The Washington Post.

That number is the result of only two weeks of open commercial flights between the countries, which agreed to open the diplomatic and tourism floodgates in a historic agreement signed in August. Tens of thousands more were expected to visit during the Hanukkah holiday, according to the Post.

The report also said that the Jewish community center in Dubai, the UAE capital, is increasing its staff from five to "about 30" employees, and that nearly 150 restaurants have begun serving kosher food. The center is planning to build a mikvah "befitting Dubai's luxury standards."

For me, though, the most surprising thing of all was the pro-Zionist statement from a top Pakistani cleric....

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It becomes more of a mystery why so many liberal Jews ignore those in the Democrat party who hate Israel more than its former enemies.  Their backing of the Palestinians unjust claims is historically illiterate and a fraud.  They are also backing the party that perpetrated the most absurd deal in history with Iran.  The only good thing to come out of that deal is that rest of the Middle East understood that Israel was an ally in dealing with the Iranian terrorist regime.