The Anti-Semitism in the News Quiz!

Martin Berman-Gorvine

We all know that anti-Semitism has been on the rise around the world for several years now (and of course, it's all the fault of those evil West Bank settlers... if they'd just get out of the occupied territories, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would convert to Judaism and start practicing for his Bar Mitzvah tomorrow!) How well-informed are YOU about the latest mutations of the World's Oldest Hatred(TM)?


1. To what has Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compared Israel?

A. A stinking corpse
B. A filthy bacterium
C. A rotten, dried tree that will be annihilated by a single storm
D. All of the above

2. What steps has Mahmoud Ahmadinejad taken to deny the reality of the Holocaust?

A. Organizing a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran featuring such noted scholars as David Duke.
B. Calling for it to be "investigated by independent and impartial parties."
C. Using the platform of a UN anti-racism conference to propagate Holocaust denial.
D. All of the above.

3. Which of the following anti-Semitic acts has Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sanctioned against his country’s tiny Jewish community?

A. Raids on synagogues and Jewish community centers.
B. Welcoming Hezbollah into his country.
C. Expelling all the Jews.
D. All of the above
E. A and B only

4. What statement did British poet Tom Paulin make?

A. Israel is treating the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.
B. Brooklyn-born Jewish settlers on the West Bank should be shot.
C. Israel staged the 9/11 attacks.
D. All of the above.

5. New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka (formerly known as Leroi Jones) lost his position for a poem making which of the following arguments?

A. Israel is treating the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.
B. Brooklyn-born Jewish settlers on the West Bank should be shot.
C. Israel staged the 9/11 attacks.
D. All of the above.

6. A few years ago, government-controlled Egyptian TV showed a 42-part series based on which of the following notorious anti-Semitic works?

A. Mein Kampf
B. "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
C. Henry Ford’s "The International Jew"
D. Karl Marx’s "On the Jewish Question"

7. Which country was recently discovered to have provided a safe haven for Dr. Aribert Heim, who conducted inhuman "experiments" on Jewish prisoners at the Mauthausen death camp, but was able to escape from Germany in 1962 and find sanctuary until his death in 1992?

A. Iran
B. Egypt
C. Syria
D. Saudi Arabia

8. Which country provided safe haven for former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, who was noted among many other crimes for welcoming the Palestinian and German hijackers of a jet full of Israelis in July 1976, and then murdering the elderly Jewish passenger Dora Bloch when Israeli commandos rescued all the others?

A. Iran
B. Egypt
C. Syria
D. Saudi Arabia

9. Who allegedly referred to Israel as “a shitty little country” that is bringing the world to the brink of World War III?

A. The French ambassador to the United Kingdom
B. Former Malaysian dictator Mahathir Mohamad
C. The Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
D. Al Qaeda "second in command" Ayman al-Zawahiri

10. When and in what forum did former Malaysian dictator Mahathir Mohamad say, to applause, that "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews"?

A. The UN General Assembly in March 2003, just before the outbreak of the Iraq War.
B. The Tenth Islamic Summit Conference in October 2003.
C. The UN anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa in August 2001.
D. The Tehran Holocaust denial conference in December 2006.

11. Which U.S. politician blamed "the Jews" for wanting war with Iraq, in a March 2003 speech?

A. Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.)
B. Pat Buchanan
C. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.)
D. David Duke

12. Which of the following remarks did President Nixon make in a recently released selection from the White House tapes?

A. The Jews have a talent for making other people hate them.
B. The Jews are behind most of the anti-Vietnam War protests.
C. The Jews are constantly nagging me to support Israel.
D. I love Henry Kissinger, but you know he’s a bit of a Jew.
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