For two thousand years the same accusation has been remade for each age: that the Jew is guilty, secretly powerful, and a danger to be removed. Every century swore its version was different, was reasonable, was about this Jew and this crime, not the old superstition.
It never was. Below are the libels as they actually ran, each with the truth, and each with the form it takes today. The point is not that criticising Israel is antisemitism. It is that a hatred this old has learned to hide, and you can learn to see it. For the whole record laid end to end, the massacres, expulsions and lies in order, see The Oldest Hatred.
The Talmud, Forged
The "shocking quotes" that circulate online are forged, mistranslated, or stripped of context, many traced to the same 19th and 20th-century frauds, and one popularised by the Nazi Party's chief ideologue. Here is what the texts actually say.
The Golden-Age Myth, Honestly
One reply to all this is that Jews were always safe under Islam, the “protected People of the Book.” The truth is more mixed than either side admits, and the honest version is the stronger one.
There is a real kernel. For long stretches Jews fared better under Islam than under Christendom: the blood libel was a Christian invention, and Muslim Spain produced a genuine golden age of Jewish poetry, philosophy and medicine, of men like Maimonides.
But “well-treated” overstates it. Jews lived as dhimmis, protected but legally subordinate, paying the jizya tax “while humbled” (Quran 9:29) and barred at times from building synagogues, riding horses or testifying against a Muslim. And the tolerance was fragile. It broke into massacre often enough: Granada in 1066, where thousands of Jews were killed in a day; the Almohad persecutions that drove Maimonides himself into exile; Fez, Tetouan, Mashhad; and into the modern age, the Farhud in Baghdad in 1941.
So the honest verdict is neither the unbroken paradise the apologists claim nor the unbroken hell of the polemicists: subordination punctuated by massacre, and at its best, real coexistence. It was simply never the equality the myth implies, and it does not cancel the hatred this page traces. The forgotten refugees →
From the Pulpit
The libels are not only history. They are preached now, by name, from real pulpits and on state television, sometimes by men the West calls moderate. The same faith also produces the opposite: imams who fight the hatred head-on, at real personal cost. The two columns are deliberately uneven, because the reality is. What follows is a sample, not a census.
Incitement, on the record
These are not fringe nobodies. They include the Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, sitting Grand Muftis, an ayatollah who is a head of state, elected legislators and mosque preachers in Western capitals, saying this in the open, on camera or live on state TV. For every name here, there are many more.
Not only the Jews
The same supremacism turns on everyone outside the faith: Christians, Hindus, apostates, “the kuffar.” The Jew is the first target, not the only one, and that is the tell, this is an ideology of domination, not a grievance about one strip of land.
And the imams who refuse it
Fewer, and braver. Several paid with their careers, their safety, or exile for saying it out loud. Each is a person who chose conscience over the crowd, and proof that the enemy is an ideology, not a people.
More of them, and the nations standing with Israel, on Allies & Friends.