Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli opened Israel’s International Conference on Combating Antisemitism on Thursday by blasting the left-leaning Israeli paper Haaretz, implicating it of sustaining debate around the occasion and spreading out lies that damage the nation’s image abroad.
” The charges versus you were led, most importantly, by Haaretz paper, a far-left and pro-Palestinian paper that … has actually ended up being a beacon of lies, an anti-Zionist propaganda tool,” Chikli informed a crowd collected at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. “Haaretz and others like them do not represent the Jewish individuals.”
His remarks came as the conference opened under examination following the addition of reactionary European legislators from France, Spain, Sweden, and Hungary. A number of popular figures withdrew in demonstration. Chikli protected the questionable guests, thanking them for pertaining to Israel “throughout wartime” and asking forgiveness “for the lies spread out versus them by those who slandered the State of Israel worldwide.”
Chikli framed the conference as part of a wider fight versus what he referred to as an installing worldwide hazard positioned by extreme Islam. Pointing out information from the University of Maryland’s Worldwide Terrorism Database, he declared that more than 90% of worldwide fear attacks because 2000 were performed by extreme Islamist groups. “The huge bulk of violent anti-Semitic attacks in Europe are performed by extreme Islamists,” he stated.
He explained attacks on Jewish targets in France and the Netherlands, consisting of the rape of a 12-year-old Jewish woman by males he determined as Islamist immigrants. He likewise argued that Hamas’s ideology shows a mix of Islamic fanaticism and Nazi racial theory. “It was pure anti-Semitism,” Chikli stated of Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel. “A combination of extreme Islamic fanaticism with Nazi racial teachings.”
The minister implicated Western societies of ethical decay, arguing that organizations such as the United Nations and American universities have actually capitulated to Islamist groups that rebrand themselves with respectable-sounding names. He called CAIR and SJP– describing the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Trainees for Justice in Palestine– as examples.
Chikli applauded United States President Donald Trump for taking “genuine, concrete action” versus antisemitism, consisting of expelling Hamas advocates and pushing universities. He contrasted that with what he called the weak method of the Biden administration.