‘The Filth of the Jews’

Just a few hours before the latest suicide bomb attack on Israel killed at least 16 people in Haifa and injured at least 60, a wire crossed our desk from the Zionist Organization of America. It called attention to the broadcast, on the television station of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, of a sermon from the Sheikh Ijlin Mosque in Gaza. In the sermon, according to a translation by the American government’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris declared “O Allah, cleanse our country from the filth of the Jews. O Allah, cleanse our holy places from the filth of the Jews.”