Anti-semitism Uses the Golem Legend to Attack Jews

Barakat distorted MEMRI’s aims. They don’t seek to “represent Arabs and Muslim as anti-Semites.” This is a libel by anti-Israel propagandists and radical Islam-deniers because they don’t like when MEMRI uncovers anti-Semitic material in the media in Arab and Muslim countries. In fact, MEMRI also shows Arabs and Muslims opposed to radical Islam and don’t make them seem like anti-Semites. They seek to translate Middle Eastern media. 

Okay, let’s pretend that MEMRI did intentionally misrepresent Barakat’s views. Barakat’s article would still be a distorted piece of garbage. It still portrays Israel as a “golem” state. Mr. Barakat said nothing about MEMRI quoting him as saying that strong Jews are golems. The only accurate part of Mr. Barakat’s article is when he talks about how repressive the Arab dictatorships are. Mr. Barakat even said that MEMRI always replaced him saying Zionism with Jews. Mr. Barakat said:

Every time I wrote Zionism, MEMRI replaced the word by Jew or Judaism. They want to give the impression that I’m not criticizing Israeli policy, but that what I’m saying is anti-Semitic.

If you look at the MEMRI translations, it keeps the words Zionism in there.

Many of my readers will wonder,”What did the allegations against MEMRI have to do with thesis?” 

Well, I brought up the allegations because, if I didn’t bring it up, I would seem less objective. The anti-Israel propagandists will jump back saying that I depended on the so-called Zionist  ”propaganda” source while being silent of Mr. Barakat’s allegations. 

These anti-Semites who use “The Golem” fable, which is a Jewish fable, to promote anti-semitic libels and say that Jews have no right to defend themselves or that Israel is a “Golem” state for defending their country, have to be ashamed of themselves. That’s one of the most despicable things they could do, using a Jewish folktale to promote anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda.