“The conflict in Gaza has also furnished us, most usefully, with further proofs of Islamic prejudice against Jews and Judaism. As I reminded you last week, I have not hesitated to point out that Islam was founded in part on the basis of an explicit anti-Jewish discourse, and that this discourse is alive and well.

“I have been pilloried publicly, on more than one occasion, for having said this. So I have taken some pleasure in drawing the attention of my critics to (a) the calls by Hamas ‘commander’ Mahmoud Zahar (on Al-Aqsa TV, January 6) for the worldwide murder of Jewish children and (b) the much-reported possibility that an Islamist website has been used to compile a ‘hit list’ of prominent British Jews deemed guilty of ‘war crimes’.”

Geoffrey Alderman in the Jewish Chronicle, 14 January 2009

For a reply, see ENGAGE, 16 January 2009

For earlier articles by Alderman in the JC see here and here.