Malaysia PM: Anti-Semitism ‘Invented to Prevent Criticism of Jews’

The term anti-Semitism is an entirely false construct designed to shield Jews from criticism for any wrongdoing, making them the only race that is beyond reproach, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday.

“There is one race that cannot be criticized,” he said in an interview with the Associated Press. “If you are anti-Semitic, it seems almost as if you are a criminal … anti-Semitic is a term that is invented to prevent people from criticizing the Jews for doing wrong things.”

A longtime champion of Palestinian causes, Mr Mahatir added “we should be able to criticize everybody” while assailing laws denying the scale of the Holocaust.

Mahathir Mohamad, at 93 the world’s oldest prime minister, has never shied from attacking Israel in general and Jews in particular.

As far back as September 1986, he gave a speech at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, in which he stated: “the expulsion of Jews from the Holy Land 2,000 years ago and the Nazi oppression of Jews have taught them nothing. If anything at all, it has transformed the Jews into the very monsters that they condemn so roundly in their propaganda material. They have been apt pupils of the late Dr. Goebbels.”

As Breitbart News reported, his anti-Semitic (anti-American and anti-Israel) remain on his “chedet” blog – available directly from the website of the newly-accredited Perdana Global Peace Foundation.

Here are just a few of his entries:

• September 14th, 2012: “I am glad to be labelled anti-Semitic. How can I be otherwise when the Jews who so often talk of the horrors they suffered during the Holocaust show the same Nazi cruelty and hard-heartedness towards not just their enemies but even towards their allies should any try to stop the senseless killing of their Palestinian enemies.”
• October 18, 2012: “the most blatant example of control over public expression is with regard to the protection of the Jews… when [Holocaust denier] David Irving a British historian doubted the 6 million figure, he was arrested and jailed in Austria even though his opinion was not expressed in that country. Since then no one has dared to openly question the veracity of the claim on the number of Jews killed by the Nazis.”
• November 21th, 2012: “Israel is really operating an Auschwitz type of concentration camps as operated by the Nazis for Jews in the last war. Israel tells the world that the Nazis were inhuman. But the Palestinians, the Gazans did not put Jews in concentration camps. Still they are being made to apparently pay for the sins of the Europeans. Humane treatment is only for Jews. If Jews treat the Arabs with the same kind of brutality, it is alright.”
• January 11, 2013: “AIPAC (the Jewish lobby) the most powerful lobby in the U.S…”

Mahathir Mohamad’s views on Jews and Israel may be extreme, however his electoral prospects have never been harmed by them in his homeland.

In the most recent polling, Malaysians have him a 71 per cent approval rating.

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