Whitewashing the Ovens — The Moral Equivocating Starts in Nashville

Below is the latest newsletter from the Tennessee Council for Political Justice.

Newsletter #201: Whitewashing the Ovens — the moral equivocating starts in Nashville

Anybody can be an anti-Semite, but to really harm Jews, it helps to be a Jew.

Leftist Jews who concede a moral equivalence between the horror and evil of the Holocaust and the “nakbah,” (translated as “the catastrophe”; what Arabs label the reestablishment of Israel, the Jewish homeland) should be ashamed.

Starting on October 14, 2016, The Tennessee Holocaust Commission, Temple Ohabai Shalom, The Jewish Federation, Vanderbilt University, Family of Abraham and The Faith & Culture Center will sponsor the “Exhibit & Lecture series: “Moving From Indifference to Action.” The lecture series will continue for two weeks.


Event sponsor Faith & Culture Center’s president Daoud Abudiab posts on his Facebook page how he really feels about the State of Israel

The event will also include an interfaith service with Imam Mohamed Magid at The Temple whose senior rabbi Mark Schiftan has made it his mission to fight Islamophobia in Nashville.

Magid is among the “newly-educated” former Holocaust deniers. After his visit to the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau, he said, “[w]hether in Europe today or in the Muslim world, my call to humanity: End racism for God’s sake, end anti-Semitism for God’s sake, end Islamophobia for God’s sake, end sexism for God’s sake… Enough is enough.”

Magid’s sentiments may be sincere, but leave unanswered whether his call to end anti-Semitism includes this century’s new anti-Semitism movement called Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions against Israel (BDS). The United States Commission on Civil Rights has stated, “anti-Semitic bigotry is no less morally deplorable when camouflaged as anti-Israelism or anti-Zionism.”

Sometimes described as politically correct or politically sanctioned anti-Semitism, the end goal of BDS as stated by the movement’s founder Omar Barghouti is clear. He rejects a two-state solution and says that Palestinian right of return is the way to end Israel as a Jewish state. “You’d have a Palestine next to a Palestine rather than a Palestine next to Israel.”

Leaders of the BDS movement, including the former and current directors of Samar Ali father’s Jerusalem Fund organization, agree that the end goal is to destroy the State of Israel.

The question Nashville’s Jews and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission members should be asking Magid is why, as President of ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), he allowed his organization to actively promote the leaders of BDS and the BDS campaign?

Who is Imam Mohamed Magid?

Mohamed Magid was born in Northern Sudan. He first came to the U.S. sometime in 1987 to donate his kidney to his father. He claims that the relationship with his father’s kidney doctor, who was Jewish, caused him to reject anti-Semitism:

“I hold a very strong view against antisemitism. And this unacceptable behavior of some so-called Muslim leaders who deny Holocaust, which I do believe is one of the biggest signs of antisemitism- is to deny the Holocaust.”

Magid is the Executive Imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), located in Northern Virginia and one of the largest Islamic centers in the Washington, D.C. area.

A March 2015 article highlighted that ADAMS “identifi[ed] itself as an affiliate of ISNA on its website.” Shortly thereafter, ADAMS eliminated this statement from its website.

Magid has had long-standing leadership responsibilities with ISNA, serving first as a regional representative, then Vice-President and finally, being elected President of ISNA in 2010. He served as President through 2014 and currently remains on the organization’s Executive Council.

ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood group identified in the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum, the Brotherhood’s plan for overtaking the West. ISNA is a named unindicted co-conspirator in the successful Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing prosecution. ISNA supports HAMAS, a U.S. designated terrorist organization dedicated to destroying the State of Israel.


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ISNA has a well documented history of supporting the BDS movement and its leaders. During Magid’s tenure as President, ISNA leaders participated in the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) annual conference alongside speakers like BDS founder Omar Barghouti.

AMP is a national extremist anti-Israel organization that helps train and support Students for Justice in Palestine groups and is described by the Anti-Defamation League as “anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans about the just cause of Palestine and the rights of self-determination.” The 2012 conference provided workshops on how to get involved in the BDS movement.

ISNA’s Secretary General Safaa Zarzour spoke at AMP’s 2011 meeting and at AMP’s 2012 conference, both times at the behest of Magid’s leadership of ISNA. Zarzour’s talk about uniting Muslim organizations behind the BDS campaign was described as one of the most “inspiring” talks of the conference.

And AMP has reciprocated by speaking at ISNA conferences during Magid’s tenure as President.

Another former President of ISNA, Muzammil Siddiqi, was also part of the imam trip to the Nazi death camps. Siddiqi, who refuses to denounce HAMAS or Hezbollah, has praised suicide bombers as “those who die on the part of justice,” serves as the director of the Islamic Society of Orange County and the Chairman of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.

The November 20, 2012 newsletter of Siddiqi’s Shura Council praised student BDS initiatives:

“Shura Council applauds the Associated Students of UCI [University of California, Irvine], for unanimously passing a resolution calling for UCI to divest from companies who benefit from occupied Palestine. Click here to learn more about UCI divestment and learn what is B D S here.”

And the quid pro quo for turning the imams into Holocaust believers?

A Jewish magazine written by and for leftist Jews called The Forward, documented different parts of the imams’ trip to the death camps, including the apparent struggle for the imams to sell Holocaust truth to their fellow Muslims:

“At several points during the trip, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was invoked, as well as the perceived linkage between the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel that often makes the Holocaust itself a difficult topic in the Muslim world. Some acknowledged that this posed a potential impediment to widespread acknowledgement of the Holocaust in their own community.

In some of their most sensitive discussions, several delegates grappled with the issue of how to present the truth of the Holocaust in a way that would be accepted and taken to heart by their congregants. Breger, citing the need for the participants to speak freely to each other on this, ruled these exchanges off the record. But broadly, one suggestion was that Muslim acknowledgement of the Holocaust should be followed by similar initiatives on the Jewish side, acknowledging Palestinian suffering and the role that Israel’s founding and the country’s subsequent policies had in this.” (emphasis added)

This approach could be a twofer — whitewash both the ovens and the proven 3,000-plus-year link of the Jews to the land of Israel. The false narrative that the State of Israel came into being simply to accommodate survivors of the Holocaust is simply not true.

Are Jewish leaders in Nashville preparing to own the nakbah narrative?

At the very least, the organizers of the Holocaust event in Nashville have given sanction to an event co-sponsored by Faith and Culture Center’s president Daoud Abudiab, who posts his anti-Israelism on Facebook.

Would Nashville’s Jewish leadership organizing the Holocaust event ask Magid to disavow his organization’s support for the BDS movement, its goals and its promoters?

Would they ask him to deny ISNA’s support for HAMAS, whose charter includes these verses from the Quran and the Hadith:

Article 7 of the HAMAS Charter:

“The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,’ except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Recorded in the Hadith [words and deeds of Mohammed] collections of Bukhari and Muslim).

Article 13 of the HAMAS Charter:

“The Jews will never be content with you, nor will the Christians, until you follow their religion. Say: ‘The guidance of Allah is the right guidance.’ But if you follow their desires after the knowledge which has come to you, then you shall have no protector or guardian from Allah.” (Koran, 2:120)

Nashville’s rabbinical leadership have a clever slogan — “we may be opponents, we need not be enemies” inferring the moral equivalence sought by the death camp visiting imams, including those who have shown or enabled support for the BDS campaign.

With the help and endorsement of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, the Jewish Federation and other Jewish leadership in Nashville, the anti-Semitism that drove the Holocaust will be separated from the Left and Islamic groups’ BDS attack on Israel.

The Jews in Nashville are preparing to abandon the Jews in Israel to further attacks via BDS. Does whitewashing the ovens with the supposed “conversion” of radical imams (who have a sacred sanction to lie to further Islam), mean that “never again” somehow magically will not happen?

5 thoughts on “Whitewashing the Ovens — The Moral Equivocating Starts in Nashville

    • Dear Warrior Susan,

      Psychologically defined, a phobia is an irrational fear of something. Your fear of Islam is real not irrational. The term ‘Islamophobia’ was deliberately constructed so as to infer mental health issues for the person so labelled and thereby shut down rational discussion and debate. Sarcastically speaking, no person can have a rational fear of Islam because, after all, Islam is a religion of peace.

  1. The Jews deserve special status as an endangered species. (Sarc, if that was not already clear!)

    What we really have in Tennessee is Jews trying to survive in a very hostile environment. Local thrashing about never speaks to the big picture. Any Jew who cares one iota about Jews knows that Israel is essential to any future for the tribe.

  2. Mark Schiftan is not a rabbi, as he lacks Orthodox certification. The Forward and other odious anti-Semitic groups like the Tennessee Holocaust Commission and Ohabai Shalom Temple are not Jewish organizations, but organizations of alleged Jews.

    It’s time Jews with Jewish values start visiting such “Jews” and pointing out their errors. But alas, real, Orthodox rabbis are too focused on their positions and won’t even tell the truth about Islam.

  3. I live in liberal Nashville and believe me, pardon my language, but Nashville is a shabby old whore. Has been for years. The Downtown Presbyterian church (PCUSA) has promoted Islam and Megan Barry, the Mayor, promotes the vile Islam. Many churches in the NCOC and WCOC are on the wagon for the destruction of the U.S.

    As I said, Nashville, Tennessee is a shabby old Whore.

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