Was a Former Knesset Member, Azmi Bishara, Instrumental in Creating the ‘Genocide’ Myth About Israel?
An Israeli journalist is tracing South Africa’s ‘genocide’ case in the International Court of Justice to a November 28 lecture that the Doha-based Mr. Bishara gave to the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, which he heads.
Azmi Bishara, in addition to being a secular, pan-Arab intellectual with Christian and Marxist roots — and a former member of Israel’s Knesset to boot — is sort of a Svengali to the emir of Qatar, one of Arabia’s most Islamist, nationalist, and anti-Israel countries. Mr. Bishara also may have been instrumental in creating the myth that the country of his birth is guilty of “genocide.”
An Israeli journalist, Makor Rishon’s Pazit Ravina, is tracing South Africa’s “genocide” case in the International Court of Justice to a November 28 lecture that the Doha-based Mr. Bishara gave to the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, which he heads. Citing “judicial sources at London,” Ms. Ravina writes that the 67-year-old Mr. Bishara is “one of the main forces” behind Pretoria’s case.
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