السلام عليكم
1. We don't hate Jews. You just need to look at 1400 years of Islamic history to know this as a fact. For example, under which political system did the Jewish Golden Age occur? The Caliphate, it was during when Muslims ruled Al Andalus.
What about Israel? Who was the one's that liberated Jews, and allowed them to re-enter Jerusalem after 500 years of being evicted by the Romans?
Following the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, Jews were once again allowed to live and practice their religion with more freedom in Jerusalem, 8 years after their massacre by the Byzantines and nearly 500 years after their expulsion from Judea by the Roman Empire-
Gil 1997, pp. 70–71.
And there's many primary accounts of Muslim and Jewish relations. For example; An Italian Rabbi, Obadiah Yareh Da Bertinoro, travelled to Jerusalem in 1486 CE and wrote a letter to his father telling him about the country and its people;
The Jews are not persecuted by the Arabs in these parts. I have travelled through the country in its length and breadth, and none of them has put an obstacle in my way. They are very kind to strangers, particularly to anyone who does not know the language; and if they see many Jews together they are not annoyed by it. In my opinion, an intelligent man versed in political science might easily raise himself to be chief of the Jews as well as of the Arabs… - Rabbi Obadiah Yareh Da Bertinoro, quoted in The Jewish Caravan edited by Leo W. Schwarz, The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1946, p. 249.
And so on. If we really hated them, would we have tolerated them and lived in peace with them for so many centuries? Of course not. The only issue Muslims have today is with Israel (Zionists) and NOT Jews, and that's mainly due to the whole Palastine issue. You'll find many Jews are with the Muslim cause and are against Zionism/Israel as well -
2. Memri TV? Lol, that's an Zionist funded channel (the very definition of hate), that's used for propoganda against Arabs/Muslims. They're very selective, dishonest and use misleading translations (its channel is aimed towards the west/english speaking audience).
Don't trust or bother to watch/read anything from them.
http://islamthought.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/memri-tv-the-neo-fascist-propaganda-machine/
What Officials have Characterized About MEMRI
In an interview that Finkelstein had with InFocus,
“They use the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis,” Professor Norman G. Finkelstein, a well-known scholar on Israel/Palestine, told InFocus. “They take things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don’t like.”
He ends with saying
“I think it’s a reliable assumption that anything MEMRI translates from the Middle East is going to be unreliable,” Finkelstein said.
Laila Lalami, writing in The Nation, states that MEMRI “consistently picks the most violent, hateful rubbish it can find, translates it and distributes it in e-mail newsletters to media and members of Congress in Washington“. As a result, critics such as Ken Livingstone state, MEMRI’s analyses are “distortion.”
Whitaker states
“The stories it selects for translation follow a particular pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel” (2002)
Harris says
“MEMRI engages in the practice of publishing selective and decontextualized excerpts of the Arabic press in ways that can present opponents of [Israel’s] occupation as religious extremists or anti-Semites” (2003)
Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, says in 2005
“A well funded organization which specializes in finding quotes from Arab media for circulation in the West. The translation and selection of quotes tend to portray Islam in a very negative light”
These quotes, and many others were provided by Mona Baker of Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group in a world entitled “Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account” on page 74.
