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Hezbollah Groupie Turned Judeophile Claims Judenrein Islamic Countries Who Have No Jews Is Why Muslims Hate & Want To Kill Them
August 9, 2026
Screenshot of the attacker in Berlin. An Israeli-Arab was identified as one of the victims.
MIM: "Recovered Antisemite" and German by choice, Rawan Osman propagates the myth that Muslim/Arab countries like Syria and Lebanon (where she was born and raised by her Hezbollah family) has been waging jihad against non Muslims and the West for over 1,400 years BECAUSE OF THE NAZI'S and that the Islamic ('Al Aqsa Flood)' of "global antizionism' is Nazism which has "morphed" and been "fused...with a "splash of Jihadism".
"The Nazis were defeated in Europe but their legacy is rampant in large parts of the Arab world, especially in Palestinian culture. Fused with a dash of communism and a splash of Jihadism, that legacy morphed into global Antizionism."
Rawan Osman 1:00 PM · Aug 4, 2026 320.7K Views
MIM: According to German citizen by choice Rawan Osman 'the legacy of Nazis in Europe' is rampant in large parts of the Arab world" which must have come as a surprise to Al Haj Al Amin Al Husseini aka "Hitler's Mufti" who had been waging jihad against the Jews and Israel since 1920 until his death on July 4, 1974 in Osman's heimat of Lebanon.
Hajj Al Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, began actively inciting and orchestrating violent attacks against Jews in Palestine around April 1920 and 1929.
"The concept and practice of physical conflict or warfare framed as jihad (striving or fighting in the way of God) has a history spanning approximately 1,400 years, originating in the early 7th century CE during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad."
MIM: In a 2026 podcast interview "Recovered Antisemite" and 'Arab Zioni$t', Syrian -Lebanese Muslimah Rawan Osman related the experience of seeing Hasidic Jews in a kosher food store in France for the first time in 2011,fleeing and having a severe panic attack.
Osman now lives in Germany and discussed a 2018 incident of a Syrian 'migrant' attacking two young men who were wearing kippot while walking down a street in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. A short video of the incident went viral and resulted in and condemnation and vows to fight antisemitism from German PM Merkel to Jewish and Israeli individuals and institutions worldwide.
The story had an unexpected twist because the two young men wearing kippot were not Jewish! They were Arabs with Israeli passports who wanted to prove to their friends in Israel that wearing a kippa in Berlin was safe.
Wir Schaffen Das!
MIM: Excerpts from Rawan's recent interview on a podcast in which she claimed that the Syrian Muslim teens' hitting two people he believed were Jews were a 'less civilized' panic reaction than she had in France) which was NOT caused by Jew hatred intimating that the Syrian Jew hater had probably never met a Jew before since there are less than 10 in Syria.This explanation exonerates the Muslim Jew hater by saying "it's not his fault - he never met a Jew and like myself, he thought they were monsters.Osman deliberately omits any mention of Islam and the Koran.
Excepts:
"Imagine how I reacted in Berlin shortly after the Syrians arrived. A Syrian teenager identifies a Jewish teenager, how the young man was wearing a kippah.
And he had a loud monologue where he was saying, are you Jewish?
Your'e a Jew. He's a Jew.
Are you Jewish? He was shouting out loud.
And the friend of the Jewish kid filmed it and posted it online.And it went viral because eventually the Syrian guy took his belt off.
And he was hitting the Jewish kid with a metal buckle on his hand. And I told my son, that is me.
I was the more civilized version.But this is how his panic attack translated.
We think they are monsters. And this is how he behaved.
i just came from a better social class."
An migrant from Syria has admitted in court that he attacked an Israeli man wearing a skullcap in Berlin.
The 19-year-old man lashed out with his belt at the man in broad daylight in a street in the German capital.
The young migrant apologised for his actions.
The attack in April was filmed by the victim on his smartphone and sparked outrage when shared on social media, triggering street rallies in solidarity with Germany's Jewish community.
But it also led to the leader of Germany's Jewish community advising Jews to avoid wearing traditional skullcaps (kippahs) in big cities.
Footage of the assault shows the attacker shouting "yahudi", Jew in Arabic, before lashing out and injuring the Israeli man.
The victim, a 21-year-old student, later said that he was not Jewish but an Israeli Arab.
He told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle that he and his friend had wanted to test whether wearing a kippah was safe in inner city Berlin.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44539145
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Two young men wearing kippahs were attacked and insulted by a man yelling "Yahudi" or "Jew" in Arabic on April 17 in Berlin, Germany. The footage of the video recorded in the city's trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood went viral on social media. German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the attack
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ecm0WbuYn9w&ra=m
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Newly published statistics found a marked increase in the number of anti-Semitic attacks in the German capital
Poling Garaev i24NEWS correspondent in Germany
April 18, 2018 at 01:37 PM
BERLIN -- German police have launched an investigation after a young Jewish man wearing a kippah was beaten with a belt on the streets of Berlin on Tuesday, with the victim filming what is presumed to have been an anti-Semitic motivated attack.
The victim, Adam Armush, was assaulted in a park near his home in the city's upper-class Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. In the video, the attacker is seen swinging a belt at Armush and shouting "Yahudi," Jew in Arabic.
I'm surprised something like this happened to me. I'm still in shock," Armush told Israel's Kan public broadcaster. "We came out of our home, my friend and I, wearing our kippash, and walked down the street."
They were then approached by three men who started cursing at them. "We didn't talk to anyone, didn't answer them. So when they kept cursing us, my friend asked them to stop cursing, and that got them angry. So one of them ran at me," he told Kan.
The young man explained that he felt the need to film the attack, "because I didn't think we could catch him before police arrived. I wanted to give police something to go on."
The video spread on social media where it caused uproar. Berlin police confirmed Wednesday that is has launched an investigation. The attacker fled the scene and authorities are now trying to identify him.
Berlin's Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) condemned the attack, stressing that "anti-Semitism is not part of the Berlin we want to live in. I am grateful that Jewish life is once again visible in our city and it makes an important contribution to the diversity of our open and tolerant metropolis.
"Berlin is a city of freedom, for which we fight on a daily basis by clearly positioning, educating and actively opposing anti-Semitism, racism and hatred, and I am sure that the police and investigative authorities do everything necessary to capture the perpetrators and prosecute them."
"It is unbearable to see a young Jewish man being attacked on the street in the well-off Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg because he's a Jew," noted Director of the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism (JFDA), Levi Salomon, which published the video on Twitter.
"This shows that Jewish people are not safe here. Now politics and civil society need to intervene. We do not need any more speeches, we have to act."
Elio Adler, chairman of WerteInitiative, a Jewish-German advocacy group, stressed that such incidents should not be viewed as isolated cases and that the only thing that makes this case unique is that it was caught on film.
"It is naive to believe that the hatred of this young attacker is directed only against Jews. Someone who acts in this way rejects our form of social coexistence. It should be in Germany own best interests to either educate such people in accordance with our liberal-democratic system, or to punish them so hard that they do not even come up with the idea to express their crude attitude with words or with force," Adler told i24NEWS.
Director of the AJC's Berlin branch, Deidre Berger, did however focus on the anti-Semitic nature of the attack, saying it "shows that anti-Semitic violence has now reduced all inhibitions. We cannot close our eyes to the increasing anti-Semitism in parts of the Arab and Muslim community."
"Jews must not become fair game on our streets," she told i24NEWS.
Meanwhile, newly published statistics by the Berlin-based Department for Research and Information on anti-Semitism (RIAS) point to an increase in the number of anti-Semitic attacks in the German capital. The Berlin-based think tank, which also documents those incidents not investigated by the police, registered 947 anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 – a 60% increase compared to 2016 (590 incidents).
In particular, RIAS identified 30 anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin's educational institutions in 2017, twice as many as the year before. Those included property damage, discrimination against Jewish children and anti-Semitic disturbances of events and anti-Semitic propaganda, occurring in schools, kindergartens, museums and universities.
"This is the highest number since we began collecting data," said the project's leader Benjamin Steinitz. "People are confronted daily with anti-Semitism in Berlin. We are aware of an average of two to three incidents per day. Anti-Semitism is a social problem. It shapes the daily lives of those affected and they must not be left alone."
Polina Garaev is i24NEWS' correspondent in Germany.
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MIM: On June 16th 2026 Rawan Osman spoke with Steven Shalowitz on his 'One Way Ticket Show' podcast.She regurgitated her usual tale but added a detail about an 'antisemitic attack' by a Syrian migrant who started hitting two kippot wearing young men while cursing.The attack was filmed and went viral eliciting worldwide condemnation. In a bizarre twist the two kippot wearers turned out to be Arabs with Israeli citizenship who were trying to prove to their Jewish friends in Israel that it was not dangerous to wear a kippa on the streets of Germany.
Even more bizarre is the fact that "Recovered Antisemite" Rawan Osman justified the attack by exonerating the Syrian Jew beater on the grounds that he had never met any Jews before and was acting reflexively due to brainwashing! Osman disingenuously claimed that Muslims in Islamic countries were not to blame for their rabid antisemitism because there were no Jews in countries like her native Lebanon and Syria for them to change their minds. What Osman deliberately omits is the fact that the thousands of Jews who had lived together with Muslims for centuries in Islamic countries were despised hated,murdered, robbed of their homes and businesses, stripped of their citizenship and driven out!
Nothing to do with Islam or the Koran here, move on und macht schnell!!!
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"Rawan Osman is a Syrian-Lebanese activist, writer, and content creator based in Germany. She's a research and diplomacy fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, who describes herself as a recovered Antisemite and an Arab Zionist."
https://theonewayticketshow.com/podcast/rawan-osmans-one-way-ticket-is-to-50-years-into-the-future/
Both my parents are Muslims. They're not religious. They don't know much about religion.My father is Sunni from Damascus.
My mom is Shia from the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.I grew up attending a French Catholic school, which confirms that I grew up in a very secular milieu.
We also had a Christmas tree growing up because my father thought it was the sweetest tradition for kids.So I grew up in a tolerant, open-minded society.
The only thing everybody hated was Israel, the Zionists, and the Jews. And we never made the distinction between the three terms.That is a farce designed for Western years.I grew up there.I was raised until I was 18 years old.
You grew up in Lebanon.in Lebanon.And the only thing everybody agreed on is hating Israel, the Jews, and the Zionists, not in Syria. Lebanon was more tolerant.It was like Europe. SoI grew up in a tolerant, open-minded society.
The only thing everybody hated was Israel, the Zionists, and the Jews.And we never made the distinction between the three terms. That is a farce designed for Western years.
I grew up there. It was like Europe. And my mother is the daughter of the Lebanese civil war.
And I agree with many Lebanese who think that the civil war was brought upon Lebanon because of the Palestinian cause.
But let's leave that aside.That is a long conversation by itself.I was one of Hezbollah's biggest fans when I was a teenager because they were the only heroes who dared defy the Israeli occupiers.
And Israel did occupy South Lebanon when I grew up.I left Lebanon in the year 2000. Now, nobody cared to tell us a minor detail.Why was Israel in the South?
Nobody cared to tell us that for more than 10 years, armed Palestinian factions trained on Lebanese soil, abused Lebanese hospitality.By the way, they trained together with their supporters from the radical left, be it from Germany or Italy or even Japan, and Arabs who were sympathetic of the Palestinian cause.
And occasionally they would send armed men and women to infiltrate Israeli borders and commit terror attacks. And after a decade of restraint, hoping that diplomacy will drive them out of Lebanon, Israel decided to create a buffer zone to protect Israeli civilians.That is why they were in the South.
We didn't know that.But also I grew up attending a French Catholic school, so there was a European Christian anti-Semitic element that I internalized.
For example, every year around Pesach, Passover, Easter, the entire school would gather at the big theater and we would always watch the same film about the crucifixion of Christ.Andwe would conclude it was very dramatic and very graphic, traumatizing really for a child.
And when you walked away, you concluded the Jews killed baby Jesus.That you saw every day when you walked up to class.
And of course, baby Jesus and Mary were both blonde. And that fits with the story we learn in history class, that the Jews originated in Eastern Europe.
And there is an antagonist called Theodor Herzl who invented something called Zionism.And according to his project, those Jews who came from Eastern Europe were going to come to the Middle East and steal Palestine from the Palestinians.
We also learned the date and the content of the Balfour Declaration and the date of the first World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, which implied that the West enabled this evil plot of the Zionists.
There are many problematic aspects to this simplistic story, but in hindsight now, when I grew older, I understood that we internalized that Palestine was a state.We just imagined, we believed that it existed and that as decent human beings, the natural thing to do is to support the oppressed underdog, the Palestinian.
Add to that that everybody, whether on the right side or left side of the political spectrum, told a consistent story about Israel.And there were no more Jews left among us, around us, to contest whatever the state told us about them.
And we didn't have internet and social media, so the Israeli narrative was completely omitted from our existence.We believed everything we were told.And only that's why I said I'm lucky, I'm privileged.
Only in my mid-20s when I wanted to take a course, the natural choice for me was France because I spoke the language.And I knew that my accommodation was in the Jewish quarter in Strasbourg.
But I thought it was a Jewish quarter like in Damascus, like in Beirut, emptied of Jews.Only in Strasbourg, there were a lot of Jews.And that was the first time I experienced a Jew.Was in your mid-20s.
In my mid-20s was the first time I saw a Jew, I spoke to a Jew, and I had a panic attack.I went to a grocery store, and I was happy to find the same ingredients and spices I needed. And I was so naive, I did not know what a kosher store was.
And when men entered the store, I couldn't see them, I could only hear them.And I was thinking in the back of my head, they're not speaking French. So I was transported to our living room when I was a child in Lebanon. And I remembered like a flash.
We had big televisions with antennas we needed to adjust to get better signal.And we could watch cartoons for 20 minutes in the afternoon.
So sometimes when we adjusted the antennas, we would get signal from Israel because Israel occupied the South. And we would watch biblical cartoons.We didn't understand a word, but as a child, you didn't care.
If a grown-up walked into the room, they would freak out and change the channel because it's Israeli television.
This is how I recognized the language.And this is how I realized they speak in Hebrew. And that is when I realized that even the language was associated with taboo in my subconscious.
Because I turned, I saw four Jewish men, religious, dressed in black and white with long pass.And I left not only my shopping, but also my bag with my money, with my passport.
And I ran out of the store, crossed the street without looking left and right.I ran up to my bedroom on the third floor and I locked the door.
And that was my first and last panic attack.I did not know what the panic attack is.I just looked in the mirror and I saw that I was sweaty and red and I couldn't breathe.
So I was telling myself just to breathe.And I composed myself, decided to go back to the store because that was stupid.
I needed my stuff. And I was going to lie to the storekeeper, tell him I forgot my wallet.That's exactly what I did. And I was thinking, they didn't even look at you.
Why did you do this?And I continued shopping as if nothing happened, went to the cashier, and the storekeeper asked me, where are you from?
And I thought, wow, like now he's going to have a panic attack.So I tried to be vague.I told him, from the Middle East. And he's like, where from the Middle East?
He insisted. So I had to tell him, I'm half Syrian, half Lebanese.And when he asked me, how long have you lived here?I'm like, I live across the street.
I just arrived this morning. So he knew what happened earlier.And he knew that I knew that he knows.And still he allowed me to save face.He was pleasant.
He smiled. He helped me with my bags.And that is how I was converted from an enemy to an ally.
Through chesed, through kindness.He allowed me to save face in the space that I shared for the first time in my life with a Jew, the enemy.
And that triggered a long process. That happened in 2011.That triggered the long process of discovering who we are, relearning the history of the Middle East and asking myself for the first time, why is the Jew my enemy?
I've never spoken to a Jew. Why do I hate them to death? Because I spied on the Jews from my window for weeks, and I saw they were normal people.
Imagine how I reacted in Berlin shortly after the Syrians arrived.A Syrian teenager identifies a Jewish teenager, how the young man was wearing a kippah.
And he had a loud monologue where he was saying, are you Jewish? You're a Jew. He's a Jew. Are you Jewish? He was shouting out loud.
And the friend of the Jewish kid filmed it and posted it online. And it went viral because eventually the Syrian guy took his belt off.And he was hitting the Jewish kid with a metal buckle on his hand. And I told my son, that is me. I was the more civilized version.
But this is how his panic attack translated.We think they are monsters.And this is how he behaved. I just came from a better social class.
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MIM: Excepts from Wikipedia in German.
Der Vorfall, auf den Sie sich beziehen, ereignete sich am 17. April 2018 im Berliner Stadtteil Prenzlauer Berg. Zwei junge Männer (21 und 24 Jahre alt) wurden auf offener Straße antisemitisch beleidigt und attackiert, weil sie eine Kippa trugen. Einer der Angreifer schlug mit einem Gürtel auf eines der Opfer ein. [1, 2]
Hier sind die wichtigsten Details zu dem Fall:
Dieser Überfall löste in ganz Deutschland eine Welle der Solidarität aus. Unter dem Motto "Berlin trägt Kippa" demonstrierten Tausende Menschen in der Hauptstadt, um ein Zeichen gegen Antisemitismus zu setzen. []
Umfassende Berichte zu diesem Vorfall finden Sie im Wikipedia-Eintrag zum Vorfall von 2018 sowie in den detaillierten Artikeln der ZEIT ONLINE und der DW (dw.com). [1]
2018 Berlin antisemitic attack - Wikipedia
Article. The 2018 Berlin antisemitic attack was an attack on a street in the German capital of Berlin. Two young men wearing Jewish skullcaps were insulted by A...
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Breites Bündnis zeigt Solidarität mit Juden - DW.com
Apr 25, 2018 — Mehr zum Thema * Schuster warnt Juden vor dem öffentlichen Tragen der Kippa. Nach den jüngsten antisemitischen Angriffen spricht der Präsident des Zentralrats d...
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MIM: Rawan Osman's career as a "Recovered Anti$emite" really took off after October 7th. Instead of confronting the Hezbollah members in her family and friends (which could include her ex husband the father of her son) and calling upon them and her fellow Muslims to stop their jihad against Jews and Israel, media whore Osman went to Israel to make a 'here I am look at me' video with the mother of one of the most publicized kidnap victims,Naama Levy.
Instead using her voice to confront and call out her fellow Muslims for their barbarism and savagery Osman decided to exploit Naama Levy's mother Ayelet's shock, grief and desperation to boost her online profile and virtue signal. Osman proudly boasted about her video 'scoop' and made sure that her 'followers' were aware that it was 'ME RAWAN OSMAN " RECOVERED ANTISEMITE" and 'MUSLIMAH MESSIAH INCARNATE' swooping down like a vulture to pick at the carnage wrought by her co religionists on Jews while melodramatically declaring the she was "burning every bridge to a world that was celebrating what I watched".
Fact Check:On 10/7 Osman was living as a single woman and studying in Germany as a German citizen and had 'burned her bridges' over a decade ago.
The reality is that "Recovered Antisemite" Rawan Gabrielle Osman used the 0ctober 7th massacre to promote herself and has been exploiting Jewish suffering as a vehicle to virtue signal ever since.
MIM: Pathological narcissist Osman made Ayelet Levy's kidnapping and abuse by Muslims all about HERSELF and HER feelings as can be seen by her proudly recounting that she, the one and only Rawan Osman, "promised her (Ayelet Levy) that what Hamas did would haunt them in their graves."
"I wished I did not have an imagination. I wished I could delete what I'd seen before her mother saw it. Weeks later, I flew to Israel for the first time, burning every bridge to a world that was celebrating what I'd watched. I went to Ra'anana and met Naama's mother, Ayelet. We made the first post from Israel asking the world to listen, asking the universe to bring her back alive. I promised her that what Hamas did would haunt them in their graves."
"I flew to Israel to Ra'anana and met Naama's mother, Ayelet. We made the first post from Israel asking the world to listen, asking the universe to bring her back alive. I promised her that what Hamas did would haunt them in their graves.
A video clip of Osman's meeting in January with Ayelet Levy Shachar, whose soldier-daughter Naama Levy was kidnapped on Oct. 7. "I think it's important for the Arab world, for women, for mothers, to hear your voice and to understand that this could happen to any of them," Osman told Levy Shachar in English, with simultaneous subtitles appearing in Arabic.
Every day, for years now, someone asks me the same question: "How much are the Israelis paying you?" As if the only explanation for defending Jews and Israel is a paycheck.
The idea that I might simply see this conflict differently doesn't compute for them. What I do is, to me, entirely normal. It only looks strange in a world where hating Jews has become the default setting of the crowd, and staying silent, or joining in, is what passes for sanity.
Many are familiar with this photograph from the Lviv pogrom, 1941. Locals — including a child and an adolescent — chase a woman stripped of her clothes, bleeding, terrified, humiliated.
The Nazis had spent years demonizing the Jews before this moment. They didn't need to pull the trigger themselves. They just needed to make the target "legitimate," and ordinary people did the rest, voluntarily. Something otherwise suppressed in them came out, and they let it.
On October 7, I woke up to the videos. One of them was of Naama Levy, arms zip-tied behind her back, dragged by her dusty hair out of a black jeep. As she was moved to the front of the car, she looked straight into the camera of the man filming her. The back of her trousers was soaked in blood. I saw the cuts on her arms, her bare feet, and I watched a crowd film her while cursing her, spitting on her, hitting her. I wished I did not have an imagination. I wished I could delete what I'd seen before her mother saw it. Weeks later, I flew to Israel for the first time, burning every bridge to a world that was celebrating what I'd watched. I went to Ra'anana and met Naama's mother, Ayelet. We made the first post from Israel asking the world to listen, asking the universe to bring her back alive. I promised her that what Hamas did would haunt them in their graves.
Arendt called it the banality of evil, and people needed mental gymnastics to accept what she meant. It's easier to believe monsters do monstrous things than to believe your neighbor might. But human beings are built for both good and evil. What we become is a choice, shaped by the moral compass we build or fail to build. Just like an ordinary person joins a mob to taunt a scapegoat, an ordinary person is capable of standing against it.
For some of us, peer pressure is minuscule in comparison with a nagging conscience. That's why the photo above matters, still, 85 years later. The Nazis were defeated in Europe but their legacy is rampant in large parts of the Arab world, especially in Palestinian culture. Fused with a dash of communism and a splash of Jihadism, that legacy morphed into global Antizionism.
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https://x.com/RawaneOsmane/status/2084685979529474441?s=20
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Arab Advocates for Israel Speak Out on Social Media
While their numbers remain small, a dam may have broken for others with similar feelings
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Excerpts:
Take the video clip of Osman's meeting in January with Ayelet Levy Shachar, whose soldier-daughter Naama Levy was kidnapped on Oct. 7. "I think it's important for the Arab world, for women, for mothers, to hear your voice and to understand that this could happen to any of them," Osman told Levy Shachar in English, with simultaneous subtitles appearing in Arabic.
Hers was a breath of fresh air fumigating the stench of inhumanity. Maybe not representative of Arab masses or their leadership or their advocates worldwide, but a necessary crutch to navigate the minefield out.
Osman is sure other Arab allies are out there. She said she hears from supporters, most communicating privately due to safety concerns.
Osman doesn't know the backgrounds of the Arabs who contact her, but said that Muslims open to dialogue "are in most cases secular or ex-Muslim."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/arab-advocates-israel-social-media
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MIM: "Recovered Antisemite" Rawan Osman is 'taking a much needed break' from being inundated with sychophantic adoration from Jews in Israel.
She moved from Lebanon to Germany to be with her British lover who she says "charmed me with his chivalry and wit". While in Germany she met non Muslim German antisemites who, unlike her Syrian brethren could not be excused for their Jew hatred on the grounds that they had never met one! Osman's eagerness to absolve her fellow Muslims and Islam from being blamed for antisemitism that she undermines her own lies.
Osman contends that exposure to Jews prevents antisemitism and disingenuously postulates that the scourge of Muslim Jew hatred in the Middle East is caused by the absence of Jews who were murdered and driven out by Muslims for being Jewish!
Osman's feigned outrage at Germans who were complicit in the extermination of their friends, neighbors, coworkers and in some cases Jewish family members, negates her contention that Muslim Jew hatred is essentially the Jews fault because there were no Jews left in their countries to hate anymore!
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A short much-needed quiet break in Germany. Thirteen years ago I moved here to join my partner at the time, a British engineer who charmed me with his wit and chivalry. I am a tough cookie, and when I finish my book, people will understand why I am the way I am. That relationship was too much even for someone like me. It nearly broke me, and it took years to reassemble my mind and regain my strength.
Nevertheless, it brought me to Germany, where I learned a chapter of antisemitism I could never have understood the same way from books alone. I met apologists, descendants of Nazis who justify what their forefathers did. I also met descendants of Nazis who dedicated their lives to atoning for those sins. Some assumed I would side with them on the Palestinian cause and spoke freely. A friend's wife told me during the 2021 Gaza war that when she watches how Israelis treat Palestinians, she understands why Hitler did what he did. I heard it in slow motion. I put down my tea, and her image, arms crossed, froze time along with that friendship.
When I told my sweet old neighbor I wished I could compare my Arabic Mein Kampf to the original, he brought me his, carrying it like the holy grail. Instead of a bible, he and his late wife had received Hitler's manifesto when they married.
The Arabic edition, printed in Beirut, is shorter than the original, though the translator claims it's complete. Arabs who glorify the Nazis don't know how little the Führer thought of them. A couple of days later, my neighbor said he really needed it back. I couldn't look him in the face again and decided to move to a different city.
These are the same moral people who sympathized with the Palestinian cause and didn't want Syrians in their country in 2015. I didn't want them here either, but for different reasons. While many Germans felt the Syrian crisis wasn't their problem, I thought it was everyone's problem.
The solution was never to invite millions into Europe, and especially not into Germany, endangering a fragile reconciliation with the Jews, when those refugees had never met a Jew and came from a culture that demonizes Israel.
A military intervention against Assad was due even if that entailed a confrontation with Iran and Russia. That confrontation was inevitable and is long overdue. But it took October 7 for the world to catch up.
Look where we are today. Jew-haters have multiplied, and they come in every color, shape, and size. That matters because Jew-haters never stop at the Jews. And yet, the same Germany that nearly dragged the world into the abyss transformed after losing the war.
If, in spite of the Holocaust, there is a German embassy in Israel and an Israeli embassy in Germany, then everything is possible. Including Israel emerging from what Hamas called the Al-Aqsa Flood not drowned, but standing like Noah's ark. very old picture that reminds me of how naive I was when I moved to Europe.
https://x.com/RawaneOsmane/status/2087127027455324636?s=20
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