Ethan B. Katz's Bonds of Brotherhood and Whitewashing Muslim Racism

Daniel Greenfield

Apologists for the Muslim violence against Jews are trotting out a new text, Ethan B. Katz's The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa To France.   The title alone tells the lie. Jews and Muslims never lived as brothers. Under Muslim rule in North Africa, Jews were second-class citizens. At best. Jews only received their civil rights under French rule. Jewish civil rights then became another grievance that Muslim Supremacists nurtured against the French and the Jews. Another sign that the rightful rule of Islam had been usurped by infidels.

Ethan B. Katz falsely blames France for "discriminating" against Muslims in favor of Jews. In fact, it was Muslims who discriminated and murdered Jews, forcing them to flee to France. Many French Jews are actually North African Jews who fled to France to escape Muslim persecution. The flood of Muslim migration however brought back the persecution. So now the descendants of North African Jews are once again fleeing Muslim violence.   This has nothing to do with France's treatment of Muslims, as Ethan B. Katz falsely claims. It has everything to do with a Muslim attitude towards Jews and other non-Muslims that predates France....

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