by Gerald A. Honigman

Well, perhaps not the most holy city in Islam, Mecca, but Jews indeed have more of a legitimate claim to Islam’s second holiest city, Medina, than Arabs, by whatever name they choose to call or rename themselves, have to Israel.
Yathrib/Medina was founded largely by Judaeans fleeing the Roman conquest of their ancestral homeland centuries before Muhammad was born.
They’re responsible for the date palm oasis that was cultivated there, and when the eventual Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, fled his enemies in Mecca, it was the Jews and some pagan tribes in Medina who gave him refuge in the early 7th century C.E.
He learned about monotheism from his Jewish hosts, including their Torah (first five books of the Hebrew Bible), the Hebrew Prophets, sanctity of Jerusalem, and so forth. It’s no accident that he instructed his followers to pray towards Jerusalem instead of towards the pagan holy Kaaba in Mecca during his sojourn in Medina.
And it’s also no accident that the holy book of Islam, the Qur’an, turned out looking a lot like an Arabized version of the Hebrew Bible, with Moses (Musa) mentioned more than anyone else except Muhammad himself.
See here for other important details:
https://theinsightinternational.com/rivers-babylon-trump-jerusalem-2018-01-07
I’ve dealt with lying taqiyyah spouting professors like Bazian for over a half century, in academia and otherwise, and debated them on their own campuses as well while a specialist consultant for a much better led ADL in the’70s.
They habitually concoct history, use only required reading material that fits into their indoctrination instead of education, and then convince naive students to buy into their totally one-sided narrative which is supported by countless millions of dollars of Arab petro-potentate cash supplied by Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporting emirates like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and so forth.
This has been going on since (largely Arab) oil replaced coal for major nations’ ships of war, their means to project power across the globe, around the turn of the 20th century, and we’re seeing the horrendous consequences of this travesty on campuses all over the world today as a result…
https://theinsightinternational.com/plague-coleitis-academia-2019-08-28
My own extensively researched and sourced doctoral work related to this issue, “British Petroleum Politics, Arab Nationalism, and the Kurdish Struggle for Independence” has been on the recommended reference lists of major universities such as Paris’s acclaimed Institut d’etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) since 1982.
In answering such professors’s libelous claims regarding Israel’s alleged numerous sins, I will just offer historically well documented and corroborated information and evidence which exposes the Arabs’s and other Arabized Islamic peoples’s own real genocidal, expansionist, settling, colonizing, and jihadi conquests, from the 7th century C.E. to the present, which slaughtered literally millions of non-Arab “kafir” infidels in establishing the two dozen independent states Arabs have to
date, including one lopped off of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine and known as Jordan today, and numerous other non-Arab but Islamic nations as well.
Here’s some of their blood soaked collective story below:
Sudan-The Story Within the Story
https://share.google/YCwtvNrWxYw3bb9In
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/berber-autumn
This continues today as Arabs slaughter Druze and Christians in Syria, previously Arabized and Islamistized blacks kill other Christian black Africans, Arabized Pakistanis murder Indian Hindus, and so forth.
In this next truly eye-opening analysis, the two internal links are essential, so be sure to include them in your reading: ”Thinking Palestine’”…
https://theinsightinternational.com/thinking-palestine-2024-06-05
When dealing with the Arab and other Arabized Muslims’s attempts to hijack Jewish history, in this next article, once a student reviews the historical corroboration that is provided by numerous non-Judaic sources, there’s no doubt to whom the land of Judah/Judaea/Israel is the ancestral homeland for…
“Gladiator II, the insatiable appetite of the Roman Eagle”
https://share.google/7CTqKuDMOdqfZ9dcs
As is often reiterated when dealing with this absurd but never ending battle over Israel’s legitimacy, the very name “Palaestina” only came about after the 2nd of four major revolts of the Jews for their freedom and independence, the last occurring in alliance with Persia against the hated Byzantines just decades prior to the onslaught of Arab jihadi hordes pouring out of a fast desiccating Arabian Peninsula, literally in search of greener pastures stolen from other non-Arab native peoples—Judaeans, Persians, Amazigh “Berbers “ black Africans, Buddhists, Kurds, Egyptian Copts, Assyrians, Hindus, Sikhs, and others as well.
The Roman Emperor Hadrian got so infuriated over the Jews’s refusal to submit that after, at great cost to the Roman Empire itself, he finally won the war after General Shimon bar Kochba fell at Betar, he deliberately renamed Judaea after the Jews’s historic enemies, the invading Greeks from the islands around Crete, the Philistines,”Syria Palaestina,” to pour salt onto their wounds.
Here’s the latest historical and archaeological corroborating evidence regarding Israel being the ancestral homeland of the Jews, no one else:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-1900-year-old-roman-swords-discovered-hidden-in-desert-cave/
Not only were these “Sea People” not Arabs, they certainly weren’t non-existent “Palestinians.”
The Philistines, of David and Goliath and Samson and Delilah fame, weren’t even Semites. See here for accounts by Roman historians:
https://share.google/Bbl2GmNpsTU9n5u5a
Arabs came to the land of Israel as foreign invaders, settling and colonizing as they did in Persia, Egypt, North Africa. India, sub -Saharan black Africa, etc…See below:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/333485
ARABISM subsequently had the gall to proclaim that the entire region of MENA and adjacent territories as being simply “purely Arab patrimony,” forever part of the Dar ul-Islam, never to be permitted to revert back into others’s possession.
And “professors” such as Bazian dare to have the audacity to speak of the alleged sins of Zionism…?
Such indoctrinators, not educators (who would actually allow free and open intellectual discourse in the classroom) depend on the naïveté, ignorance, and vulnerability of students to get away with their pathetic excuse for what should be a fair study of this diverse and volatile region. And that suits their ilk just fine.
They focus on Arabs and Arabs only, unless treading into the histories of other Arabized peoples—such as Turks and Persians/Iranians.
To help fill a needed void, by contrast, the Foreword to my forever timely book is mostly written by the President of the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria, and much of the jacket commentary is penned by the Amazigh/“Berber” publisher of Afrique-du- Nord.
Together these two gentlemen represent some 80 million TRULY stateless peoples who don’t even have one independent state between them, let alone the almost two dozen Arabism has to date.
Bazian co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Muslim Students For Palestine as well….No interest whatsoever for anyone else’s aspirations or rights, for certain.
Why aren’t there any chapters of Students for Justice in Kurdistan anywhere? Could it be because professors like Bazian never even bother to mention the plight of this 40 MILLION truly stateless people in their courses?
Arabs gassed to death and otherwise slaughtered over 250,000 Kurds in Iraq in Operation Anfal and afterwards in the 1980s.
Professor Ismet Cheriff Vanly published his “Syrian (Arab) ‘Mein Kampf’ Against the Kurds in 1968. Do I need to explain what the content of this book covers?
There’s no doubt that too many professors occupying prestigious bully pulpits in the Ivory Tower never include anything like this on required reading lists.
If the cause isn’t an Arab one, not a spoken word in the classroom either—especially in most Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) dominated ones.
And Bazian’s indoctrinating ilk dares to just point fingers at an admittedly imperfect Israel, which has made Arabic the second national language, has Arab members in its parliament (Knesset) which side with Hamas, and has dropped millions of paper messages and sent texts and made phone calls to limit casualties among its genocidal enemy’s civilians, who freely elected to power an organization committed to the total obliteration of the sole, resurrected nation of Israel Reborn, and massacre of its and other Jews everywhere.
Arabs outlawed the native cultures and languages of the millions they conquered and forcibly Arabized, and the previously also Arabized Turks did likewise later themselves to folks like Kurds.
Finally, I offer the assessment of a highly respected military expert on urban warfare regarding what the current continuing Hamas butcher-sired war in Gaza really consists of…
“Memo to the ‘Experts’: Stop Comparing Israel’s War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent”| Opinion – Newsweek
Source: Newsweek
https://share.google/XYdaJuigxkvQBe7mn


Fantastic article, as well as all the linked articles.
https://slippedisc.com/2025/08/no-more-musicology-doctors-at-university-of-chicago/
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/28/unfriend-jewish-friends-italian-law-professor-faces-backlash-viral-antisemitic-social-media-posts/