Los Angeles Community Newspaper Publishes Classic Anti-Semitism

Al Akhbar, a Los Angeles-based dual language community newspaper, published an article this month that employs anti-Semitic narratives in its opposition to Israel and Zionism, which it claims is inspired by Nazi principles.

Yousif Hadad's article in Al Akhbar

The article, titled “The Democracy of the State or its Jewishness,” is written by Yousif Hadad, a regular contributor to the paper. The State of Israel “is an identical concept to the Nazi Aryan concept,” Hadad writes. “It’s our right to question why nations hate Jews and no one else but them. Isn’t it because of their racism, stoniness and disloyalty to the countries which they live in?”  

“It’s the entrenched hatred in their souls that drives their delusions that others hate them,” Hadad adds.



Hadad, who claims in the article that “Zionists invented ‘Anti-Semitism’” as a tool to use against anyone who criticizes “Israel’s racist and oppressive policies,” also denies that “Western, Ashkenazi, Caucasian Jews who founded the Zionist Movement are Semites…in reality they have no connection to the Semitic race. Arabs are the Semites.

Al Akhbar has previously published other articles by Hadad, who received an award in 2009 from the Jordanian American Association for defending the Palestinian cause in his writing, according to the Association website.