Mordechai Kedar in al-Jazeera about Jerusalem & Islam

mkedar@mail.biu.ac.il Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University defends the Jewishness of Jerusalem, the Jewish capital for over 3000 years. He also defends the right of Israelis to settle in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.

Gil Ronen

"We were here when your forefathers were drinking wine, burying their daughters alive and worshipping idols" -- this was just one of Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar's ripostes to questions by an Al Jazeera interviewer two weeks ago, in an interview that has received rave reviews from Israel-lovers the world over for its forcefulness. "They did not expect me to take the discussion to history and especially not to religion," Kedar told Israel National News. But discuss religion he did in the above video, reminding his interviewer that Jerusalem was not mentioned even once in the Koran and saying directly in fluent Arabic that "Jerusalem is not on the negotiating table," and that "Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, period."

"This was very aggravating" for the Al-Jazeera interviewer, Kedar explained, "because in the Islamic view, Islam came into the world to replace Judaism and Christianity, not to live side by side with them. And here, all of a sudden, the Jews are coming from exile and building their state again and G-d forbid they also regained Jerusalem." Judaism is thus regaining its meaning, and Islam is challenged by this, the Bar-Ilan professor explained. "The mere existence of the State of Israel and the fact that we are in Jerusalem is some kind of challenge to the legitimacy of Islam in their eyes," Kedar explained.

"This is not pro-Israel public relations," Dr. Kedar told Israel National News. "This is a battle for the Arab heart, which Israel is apparently losing because Israel gave up on the main tool which should have served it, which is an independent Israeli Zionist satellite channel in Arabic." Many Arabs, he said, would consider changing their views if such a channel were available.

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[cosascon]

@NaBjE11 In the last seven months were more than 3000 people in Syria killed, among them 187 children. More than 100 murdered people in the last ten days. Also these victims had Syrian citizenship, they were not the enemy... Why you muslims keep silent about this? The truth is, there is no solidarity amongst the ummah, just hypocrisy - a big fail and your only poor and cowardly solution is to blame the Jews...

[extazy17]

LOL The Jew knows more about the koran then the muslim.

[rupertreddle]

@2GfH345N This is an excellent response. could not have put it better myself

[IIIl1IIIlllIII1]

Mordechai kicks islamic ass

The world is seeing the hypocrisy & total lies & evil of the 'religion of piss'

G-d will remove these demonic people from the Earth very soon!!!

[FaithfreedomFFI]

How funny that Muslims don't know their Quran. This guy from Al Jazira has never read the Quran and yet makes statements about it.

[SuperPooperxX]

LOL what a stupid arab! "you cannot erase jerusalem from the koran" ???... JERUSALEM IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE KORAN EVEN ONCE!! while in the hebrew bible its mentioned like 700 times.

stupid muslims, you know nothing about your own "holy scripts". you live in a lie.

go back to your real homeland- the desert. barbaric goat fuckers.

[leonel208]

@smredneck0 I think that u misunderstood me lol I wrote an answer to some racist Arab from below...shabat shalom lol

[smredneck0]

@leonel208 Islamophobia is a creation of the IIIT. It's not a legitimate "fear". People who study Islam (like me) according to people like you and CAIR are Islamophobes who should be put on charges.

God forbid me from you.

[smredneck0]

@extazy17 Most Muslims don't know anything about Islam. This Jew, is a PHD in Arabic and Islamic Studies, which is why he kicked the moronic Muslim's arse.

[smredneck0]

@AlAinJinn Jews are the native people of the Middle East. Arabs are from the Arabian Peninsula, and became "native" when Muhammad and his Qur'an spread by the sword.

He said: (بُعِثْتُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ السَّاعَةِ بِالسَّيْفِ حَتَّى يُعْبَدَ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ ، لا شَرِيكَ لَهُ) "I have been sent with the sword before the Hour, to ensure that none is worshipped but Allah alone without any partners."

[leonel208]

Who are you to kick someone's ass "back" to Iran and Europe?

Your hatred toward other (in this case non-Arabs) is RACIST.

Will you accept Europeans saying that all non-white Europeans must go "back" where they came from, referring to the Arab-Muslim migration...?

Hatred is hatred. racism is racism. Antisemitism - Xenophobia - Islamophobia ' Homophobia etc'. IT IS all THE SAME.

Erase Nazism, Erase Racism, Erase Hatred.

Viva Israel !

[AlAinJinn]

I do not give a shit of crazy Hitler or his followers

What I want is kicking the non middle easterns to Iran and Europe