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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22237/saudi-arabia-poisonous-campaign
Saudi Arabia's Poisonous Campaign Against Jews and the Abraham Accords
(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - In December 2025, Sheikh Saleh bin Abdallah bin Humaid, a prominent imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and a member of Saudi Arabia's Council of Senior Scholars, delivered a Friday sermon in which he prayed for God to punish "the Jews" and described Israel as a "cruel Zionist entity." Saudi Arabia's renewed anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric shows that the kingdom is moving away from normalization with Israel in favor of an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar and Turkey. Hussain Abdul Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted that some Saudi social media accounts "have now emerged as fully fledged antisemitic" and that the Trump administration needs "to have a serious talk with" the Saudis. Israeli journalist Amit Segal noted, "Normalization with Saudi Arabia is dead, at least for the foreseeable future. The strategic decision to pursue reconciliation with Israel has been replaced by a wild incitement campaign." "Over the past month, [Saudi-owned] Al Arabiya has been worse than Al Jazeera in the texts broadcast against any normalization with Israel.... Now, with the Saudis no longer celebrating the Abraham Accords, they are trying to undermine their foundations of support, from Morocco to the Emirates."