Saudi Princess Responds to Charges of Antisemitism in Saudi Royal Family

From MEMRI

I posted here a top ten Arab conspiracy list by Steven Stalinsky. A Saudi Princess responds.

Saudi Princess Fahda: 'Anti-Saudi Campaign: Enough is Enough'

"Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, has published an article under the title 'The Royal Treatment, Anti-Semitism, that is.'

"He starts his piece with this statement: The Saudi royal family has been on the forefront in espousing an extreme position of hatred toward Jews... which influences the Kingdom's educational system and media and subsequently its foreign policy.

"He proceeds by citing examples of statements and policies of the leaders of this country since its inception which are against Jews and hence anti-Semitic. To be more clear about this issue, certain facts need to be stated. First, the writer of this article must have been in great hurry to publish it, as his references are a collection of pieces of articles taken out of their contexts.

I'm not convinced and neither is MEMRI.

"Saudi kings have also been known to espouse extreme antisemitic opinions. Saudi Princess Fahda bin Saud ibn Abd Al-Aziz, who has been described as 'the daughter of King Saud and the historian of her father's reign,' writes occasionally in the Saudi press on conspiracy theories against the Jews and America. She has written that her father's views on the Jews and the Jewish state still serve as inspiration for the Arab and Muslim world. In one article she authored, she explained that King Saud called the Jewish state a deadly disease which would never be accepted by Arabs: '… King Saud made the right diagnosis: 'The Zionist threat is like cancer — in dealing with it neither medicine nor surgery will do any good.' This royal statement was meant to emphasize that the Arabs do not, and will not, accept an Israeli state amidst them.' The article added that under the leadership of King Saud, the Saudi representative to the United Nations called for the U.N. to establish an agency 'to help resettle Jews [now in Israel] in their former European homes.'

"The late King Faisal was also notorious for making anti-Semitic statements. He told the Egyptian magazine Al-Musawwar in 1972, 'While I was in Paris on a visit, the police discovered five murdered children. Their blood had been drained, and it turned out that some Jews had murdered them in order to take their blood and mix it with the bread they eat on that day.'

"The Saudi royal family's hatred of the Jews is now influencing its next generation. Saudi Prince Amr Muhammad Al-Faisal writes often in the Saudi press articles warning Jews in America that eventually Americans will turn against them. In one article he declared: 'Dear cousins, if you hear a snap in two or three years, it will probably be the sound of the trap shutting on your collective necks. You have been warned.'

"Given that the Saudi royal family controls its country's press, mosques, and textbooks, they are clearly responsible for the hatred of Jews which has become closely associated with the Kingdom."