More from Jimmy Carter: Pays for Students’ Trip to “Occupied Territories” and Preaches Pure Anti-Semitism in Church

Did anyone notice that 11 Brandeis students took up Jimmy Carter’s challenge to ““visit the occupied territories for a few days to determine whether I have exaggerated or incorrectly described the plight of the Palestinians?” To top it off, Carter reportedly picked up a large chunk of the trip’s $28,500 cost.

The students’ itinerary was published in the Brandeis “community newspaper,” The Hoot: “The delegation spent their first three days in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where they toured Mt. Zion, the Jewish Quarter, and the Armenian Quarter, and visited Brandeis’ sister school, Al-Quds University and its Center for Political Prisoners’ Affairs. Continuing through Bethlehem, Hebron, Mas’ha, and Ramallah, the delegates then slept with host families in the Deheisheh refugee camp and met with Palestinian Authority presidential runner-up Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Amal Jadou, the U.S. foreign policy advisor to PA president Mahmoud Abbas, and Omar Barghouti and Jamal Juma, both involved in the Palestinian boycott/divestment campaign. The trip concluded with a two-day stay in Neve Shalom, a mixed Jewish-Arab border community called the ‘Oasis of Peace.’”

Carter’s Center is known as the recipient of millions of dollars from the governments of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Oman and from several prominent Arab leaders, foundations and families, including the “Saudi BinLadin Group.” Did Carter really shell out for the trip, or did he ask one of Saudi buddies to spill out some pocket change?

Carter’s Church Preachings against the Pharisees, Israelis, Jews and Israelites

Carter’s infamous book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid generated widespread debate on whether Carter was an anti-Semite. His anti-Semitism and anti-Israel credentials are now proven in the recently released CD audio series Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter. Published by Simon and Schuster, the CD records Bible lessons over the last 10 years. In a S & S video promo, Carter explains that his lessons relate current events to the Bible.

The following is a recent press report with Carter’s quotes:

“So with impunity, and approved by the Pharisaic law, they [the Pharisees] could avoid taking care of their needy parents by a trick that had been evolved by the incorrect and improper interpretation of the law primarily designed by religious leaders to benefit whom? The rich folks. The powerful people.”

During another Bible lesson Carter discussed the Jewish attitude toward non-Jews. “[‘Uncircumcised’] was an epithet, a highly discriminatory phrase… How would you characterize from a Jew’s point of view the uncircumcised? Non-believer. And what? Unclean. What? They called them dogs, that’s true.”

Michael Miller, a former activist for the Anti Missionary Institute, found that at times Carter actually conflates ancient and modern Jewish history by mistakenly calling Israelites Israelis or Judea Israel. In one example, Carter says, “God would save the Israelites, they would sign a firm commitment or contract or covenant. The Israelis would what? Violate the covenant, break their promises to God. They would be punished.”

More analyses of Carter’s preachings, including his references to Jews killing Jesus, can be found here.

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Recommended Reading: Jihadi Jew-Hatred

Jeffrey Goldberg reviews Matthias Küntzel’s new book, Islamis, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, in today’s New York Times. It’s not PC these days to charge Muslims with anti-Semitism (specifically, anti-Jewism, because Arab spokesmen are quick to respond, “We can't be anti-Semitic; we’re also Semites.”). But both Goldberg and Kuntzel bravely swim against the stream.

Writes Goldberg: The anti-Semitic worldview, generally speaking, is fantastically stupid. … Anti-Semitic conspiracy literature not only posits crude and senseless ideas, but also tends to be riddled with typos, repetitions and gross errors of grammar, and for this and other reasons I occasionally have trouble taking it seriously.

The German scholar Matthias Küntzel tells us this is a mistake. He takes anti-Semitism, and in particular its most potent current strain, Muslim anti-Semitism, very seriously indeed. His bracing, even startling, book, “Jihad and Jew-Hatred” reminds us that it is perilous to ignore idiotic ideas if these idiotic ideas are broadly, and fervently, believed. And across the Muslim world, the very worst ideas about Jews — intricate, outlandish conspiracy theories about their malevolent and absolute power over world affairs — have become scandalously ubiquitous….

Küntzel makes a bold and consequential argument: the dissemination of European models of anti-Semitism among Muslims was not haphazard, but an actual project of the Nazi Party, meant to turn Muslims against Jews and Zionism. He says that in the years before World War II, two Muslim leaders in particular willingly and knowingly carried Nazi ideology directly to the Muslim masses. They were Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem (pictured), and the Egyptian proto-Islamist Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood….

Goldberg concludes: The former Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi once told me that “the question is not what the Germans did to the Jews, but what the Jews did to the Germans.” The Jews, he said, deserved their punishment. Küntzel argues that we should see men like Rantisi for what they are: heirs to the mufti, and heirs to the Nazis.

I recently wrote an article called Hamas Jungen (pending publication) that argues that not since the Nazis formed the Hitler Jungen have masses of children been brainwashed to worship death as they are in Palestinian schools, camps and TV. De-nazification was required then for Germany’s children. De-hamasification is the order of the day in the Middle East today.

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