The Qatari Representative Did Not Say That Jews Shall Be Eliminated In The Arab League Meeting

Misbar investigated the viral claim and found it to be misleading. In the 1:43 long clip, the representative of Qatar did not mention anything about Jews or the elimination of anybody.

Qatari Politics Adopt The Two-state Solution And Do Not Call For The Elimination Of Any Group

The viral clip was originally posted by the Msheireb platform on Instagram, where it was stated that the speaker is Issa Bin Ahmed Annasr, a member of the Qatari legislative Shura Council. His speech at the Arab League meeting, took place in Cairo, Egypt.

After analyzing and translating the clip, Misbar's team found that the Qatari representative said nothing about the elimination of all Jews. The viral claim originated from minute 00:58 in the clip when the Qatari counsellor said: “Al-Aqsa Flood Operation is the beginning to end the corruption of the second Zionist state on earth and the beginning, God willing, to the ending of their state.” This sentence was misunderstood and users claimed that it meant “October 7th is only the beginning and we will eliminate all Jews.” The sentence needs some context and understanding of the Qatari political view of the war on Gaza.

In fact, Qatar is one of the countries that encourages and pushes for the “two-state solution with an independent State of Palestine established on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital,” which indicates that Qatari politics have no problem with Jews but with the Zionist movement that occupies Palestinian land. This can be understood from the councilor's statement in the Arab League meeting when he said, “To end the corruption of the Zionist state.” As for the following sentence said by the councilor: “And the beginning, God willing, to the ending of their state,” it means the ending of the Zionist state that insists on occupying lands.

In a statement read by the Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani on conditions in the Middle East, including Palestine, it was stated that: “The State of Qatar called for an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab occupied territories, including the Syrian Golan and the occupied Lebanese territories.”

For further verification, we translated the whole clip, confirming that no word about Jews or the elimination of any group was mentioned.

It bears mentioning that Qatar never perceived Zionism as Judaism. The Qatari broadcaster’s AJ+ social media service once suspended two journalists after they published a video describing the deaths of 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazis as a “narrative” that was “adopted by the Zionist movement” and emphasized that Adolf Hitler also persecuted many other groups.

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