The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have produced the worst anti-Semitic slurs in 2012, according to the annual list released by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC).
The Los Angeles-based Center topped its annual “Top Ten Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Slurs” list with a quote from Mohammed Badie, a Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader who lamented “Jewish control” and ”spreading of corruption on earth.»
He declared : “The Jews have dominated the land, spread corruption on earth, spilled the blood of believers and in their actions profaned holy places. Zionists only understand the language of force and will not relent without duress. This will happen only through holy Jihad.”
Also quoted in the entry was Futouh Abd al-Nabi Mansour, a cleric affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood who called on Allah to “destroy the Jews and their supporters, disperse them and rend them asunder, » in a televised sermon delivered in presence of Islamist Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in October.
Second on the list was the Iranian regime with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declaring in July in an address to ambassadors of Islamic countries : “It has now been some 400 years that a horrendous Zionist clan has been ruling the major world affairs. And behind the scenes of the major power circles, in political, media, monetary, and banking organizations in the world, they have been the decision-makers, to an extent that a big power with a huge economy and over 300 million population, the presidential election hopefuls must go kiss the feet of the Zionists to ensure their victory in the elections.”
Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuf was third for a cartoon showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu squeezing votes into a ballot box out of the cadaver of a Palestinian child.
Most of the other listed anti-Semites are from Europe, the SWC said, "where, as memory of the Nazi Holocaust fades, age-old anti-Semitism has returned with a vengeance and where a new generation of politicians are gaining political power by repackaging classic anti-Semitic stereotypes."
European football (soccer) fans’ anti-Semitism occupieed the fourth slot.
The problem of anti-Semitic abuse at soccer matches which until recently has been limited to Eastern Europe, has been revived in Western Europe. The most serious situation has been a resurgence of anti-Semitic chanting toward one particular team, Tottenham Hotspur, which is based in a traditionally Jewish section of London. In a recent match against a rival West Ham United, sections of its fans chanted, “Adolf Hitler’s coming for you” and “You’re getting gassed in the morning” and making hissing noises like the sound of a gas chamber. A reporter for the Telegraph said, “We are not talking about a few isolated crooners here. A significant proportion of West Ham’s travelling support participated.“ Because Tottenham has the largest Jewish fan base in England, it has long been the target of anti-Semitism—so much so that the fans have adopted the slurs “Yid” and “Yiddo” as a way of deflecting abuse.
The fifth slot was for Ukraine’s Svoboda party, whose leader Oleg Tyagnibok has called for purges of the approximately 400,000 Jews and other minorities living in Ukraine and called for the country to be liberated from what he calls, the “Muscovite Jewish Mafia.”
An Ukrainian MP, Igor Miroshnichenko, recently labeled noted Ukrainian-Jewish born American actress Mila Kunis, a ‘zhydovka’, (dirty Jewess), an insidious slur used against Jews since the times of the Czar and invoked by the Nazis and their collaborators as they rounded up the Jews to murder them at Babi Yar and in the death camps.
The sixth and seventh slots went to Greece’s Golden Dawn party and Hungary’s Jobbik, respectively.
Nikolaos Michaloliakos, founder of Golden Dawn, said in an interview in May 2012 that six million did not die in the Nazi Holocaust. He called the figure an exaggeration. “There were no ovens. This is a lie…there were no gas chambers, either”.
During a session of the Greek Parliament that was discussing an assault charge against Kasidiaris, Golden Dawn’s spokesperson, Ilias Kasidiaris, read from the notoriously anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’s” that « Jewish leaders seek to discredit patriots as part of their attempt to take over governments.»
In October, Marton Gyongyosi, Jobbik’s leader criticized Hungary’s foreign ministry for supporting Israel and raised the specter of dual loyalty by calling for background checks on Hungarian Jewish citizens.
“I think now is the time to assess how many people there are of Jewish origin here, and especially in the Hungarian parliament who represent a certain national security risk of Hungary, » he said at the Hungarian parliament.
Norway and its royal house were in the eighth spot for awarding a medal to the Trond Ali Linstad, a Muslim educator and physician who has in his writings denounced the spread of "Jewish influence". The medal was later withdrawn.
Number nine went to Jakob Augstein, a German publicist who in Der Spiegel magazine accused Benjamin Netanyahu of exploiting the “Jewish lobby” in the United States and Germany’s Nazi past to “keep the world on a leash. “With backing from the US, where the president must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component, the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant, » he said.
Louis Farrakhan occupied the last slot, and was quoted as saying in October at a Mosque in Chicago: “Jews control the media. They said it themselves… In Washington right next to the Holocaust museum is the Federal Reserve where they print the money. Is that an accident?”
In the past, Louis Farrakhan has claimed that Jews controlled the slave trade, the US Government, and continue to seek world domination. In 2012, Farrakhan intensified his anti-Semitic rhetoric.