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Nothing in Islam Requires the Faithful to Hate Jews
(Fox News) Qanta Ahmed - Rep. Ilhan Omar is quick to embrace anti-Semitic stereotypes that should be an embarrassment to all decent men and women. And I say this as a Muslim woman myself. Nothing in Islam requires the faithful to hate Jews or the Jewish state. In fact, the Koran documents that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. There are 50 countries in the world with Muslim-majority populations. Surely there can be room on the planet for one small country with a Jewish majority. In fact, I firmly believe that America's support for a secure and sovereign homeland for the Jewish people is a moral imperative. Jews and non-Jews who support Israel should not be accused of dual loyalty to a foreign country and should not be accused of infringing on Palestinian rights. There's no question that every group on Earth deserves protection from discrimination and violence. But the evil of anti-Semitism is responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and uncounted more murders throughout history. It must be singled out and condemned unequivocally when a member of Congress embraces hatred of Jews openly and aggressively. The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation (where I serve with Jews and non-Jews) defines anti-Semitism thus: "When criticism of Israel demonizes, delegitimizes or holds Israel to a double standard, it is a manifestation of anti-Semitism." The writer is an associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.