Hamza Tzortzis – Apartheid Apologists – A Response to Jordan Peterson & Benjamin Netanyahu

			Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim in Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah. Assalamu alaykum
Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. Brothers and sisters and friends in the peace and blessings of God of
Allah be upon every single one of you. This video is going to be addressing the recent podcast
between Dr. Jordan Peterson and the wall criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. And I'm going to be addressing
some of the deliberate omissions the false claims and at least one false assumption that was
expressed by these two individuals. Now I have put some notes together, I'm going to be referring to
them in sha Allah, God willing. And the first thing I want to say is this. Jordan Peterson has
		

			recently displayed an immoral and inconsistent way of being, he has come across to his audiences as
anti oppression, and anti authoritarian. However, he recently invited the war criminal, Benjamin
Netanyahu and engaged in an interview or a discussion that can only be described as one sided,
ideological and immoral propaganda. Now for someone who has immense following, he has huge
influence, and he has a immense responsibility to be balanced. In fact, he has an epistemic and
moral duty to be informed.
		

			This is very important. Sometimes ignorance is an excuse, but not in this case, because we are
talking about ethnic cleansing oppression, injustice and a modern day apartheid. So in this context,
to invite a war criminal that has been responsible for crimes against humanity, human rights abuses
and injustice is against Palestinians, Muslim and non Muslim. And he has also been responsible for
what many authorities are now describing as a modern day apartheid, without holding him to account,
or at least challenging him, is one of the greatest acts of cowardice and injustice that had been
displayed on social media, especially in the context of who Dr. Jordan Peterson is, he should know
		

			better even if Dr. Peterson does not agree with these assertions, the fact that they are expressed
by mainstream academics. They exist in academic literature. They are expressed by mainstream
politicians, media outlets, multiple human rights organizations and notable personalities, and he
should have at least questioned him and held him to account
		

			given the gravity of the assertions that have been made, he should have questioned him further, he
should have not just giving him a platform to espouse the distortion of reality, and the twisting of
history and to express such immorality and one sided ideological propaganda. Now, since Dr. Peterson
did not hold him to account, then it can show and to be fair, if your looks like a duck, and it
quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. And in this context, if your looks like a Zionist and it
quacks like a Zionist then it's a Zionist because if you think about it, Dr. Peterson may have a
conflict of interest, right? Given the fact that he has joined daily wire, which is a pro Zionist
		

			organization that is run by the genocidal
		

			apartheid apologist Ben Shapiro's, it may be the case that Dr. Peterson doesn't want to bite the
hand that is currently feeding him.
		

			Now before I share some of my thoughts and respond to some of the claims and omissions of the
podcast, let me substantiate why I'm calling Netanyahu, a war criminal. There are many examples, but
one should suffice.
		

			Let's recall let's go back to the 2014 crazed assault of Gaza. Over 2100 people died mostly innocent
civilians. 60,000 homes were destroyed. Over 100,000 People were made homeless 20,000 tons of
explosives were fired into one of the most densely populated regions on Earth.
		

			So he is a war criminal brothers and sisters and friends. Now I'm going to respond to some key false
claims, some deliberate omissions and a false assumption. Now, as a caveat, I want you to please
note that I'm not going to address everything because some things do not require a response. And I
also believe that some things should just be laughed at, because anyone with some kind of moral
intelligence, or emotional intelligence or social awareness will understand that very clearly. So
there are six points I want to make. And they include addressing two false claims, addressing three
deliberate omissions and addressing one false assumption. So the first point is a claim which was a
		

			land without a people and a people without a land. That's the kind of colonial Zionist myth. The
second is another claim that I want to address which is well, the Jews simply
		

			We returned to her barren land, they returned home, they returned to a place where there was no one
there maybe one or two villages. The third point is dealing with a deliberate omission. They omitted
the fact
		

			of the Nakba, that they were colonizers that were colonial settlers that came into the land into the
region. And they expelled over 700,000 Palestinians with no right to return. The fourth point is
another omission responding to another omission. And that is basically saying that it was peaceful,
that Jesus came in and it was barren land, and they create a great society and create a great
nation. And there was no brutality or occupation. Right. And that is obviously false. The fifth
point is another mission. And they clearly are not mentioning a historical fact that there was
peaceful coexistence between Arabs, Muslims and Jews. They have deliberately omitted this.
		

			The sixth point is one false assumption. And that basically assumes that Israel is a good and decent
and great country. And that's something that we're going to unpack. So let's deal with the first two
claims. The first is a colonial myth, which basically says a land without a people and a people
without a land. And the other claim is the Jews simply returned home or they return to this barren
land. There was no one there, maybe one or two villages. And this is false. My dear brothers and
sisters, these colonial myths, brothers and sisters and friends, were known to Zinus themselves.
Take, for example, Moshe Dayan. He was close to Ben Gurion. And as you know, Ben Gurion was the
		

			first prime minister of Israel, and he was the primary founder of the Zionist state. And Moshe Dayan
was an Israeli military commander and a former defense minister, and he was addressing Technion
Israel Institute of Technology and he is cited in 1969. To have said the following. Jewish villages
were built in the place of our villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages. And
I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the
Arab villages are not there either. Now Halal arose in the place of Malou kibbutz but in the place
of jhipster kibbutz studied in the place of Huni fists, and Kefar Yahushua in the place of Tal al
		

			chemin. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab
population. Shame on you, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Dr. Jordan Peterson, other Zionist Arthur James
Balfour, who was the Prime Minister of the UK and the foreign secretary in the Lloyd George
ministry, and he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of the cabinet, which supported a
home for the Jewish people. Now, this is what he had to say. He said, and he admitted in Palestine,
that the Arabs were the indigenous majority population. These are his words, indigenous majority
population of another Zionist Israel Zangwill, who was a British author at the forefront of cultural
		

			Zionism during the 19th century, and it was a close associate of Theodore Hutsul. In 1897, zango
visited Palestine and saw for himself the indigenous population there. So in 1905, at design his
speech in Manchester XANGO, said the following.
		

			Palestine proper has already its inhabitants. The per shallick of Jerusalem is already twice as
thickly populated as the United States, having 52 souls to the square mile and not 25% of them,
Jews. Also, my dear brothers, sisters and friends connected to this claim is the Zionist myth or
false assertion. That often argues that Palestine as a region with this name was taken by Arab
conquerors. They claim that Palestine was put under the control of the Arabs after the Arab Muslim
conquest of the seventh century. This is false, long before Islam even existed. Arabs lived in
Palestine the urbanization of Palestine was done by Arab Christians hundreds of years before the
		

			rise of Islam. Herodotus was the contemporary of Socrates. And he's referred to by Cicero as the
father of history. He wrote a book and titled histories and it was written between 450
		

			De two 420 BC. And in this book, Herodotus details his own visit to a land called Palestine. And
Herodotus describes Palestine geographically as a country known today. And listen to this. He says
the sea ports of Palestine were occupied by Arabs who controlled the instance treat. This is around
450 to 420 BCE, my dear brothers and sisters and friends and you have an academic David Asher, a
professor of ancient history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He acknowledges that during
Heraclitus is time Arabs lived in Palestine, but there were only a few Jews there. Nowhere does her
auditors mentioned Israelites in Palestine. And you have many ancient figures who refer to Palestine
		

			as a distinct region. These include Aristotle, Strebel, Pliny the Elder Pomponius, Mela, and pianos,
my silliness, etc, etc, etc. The key point here is Palestine existed before 630 ad, and it was under
our rule hundreds of years before the so called Arab Muslim conquest. Now, more remarkable is what
archaeology has discovered. Now the mortuary temple of Ramses the third at the Medina. Hubbell
temple in Luxor is one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. In the temple and inscription dated
1150 BCE refers to Palestine, and you have an early Assyrian tablet dating from 717 BCE. Speaking of
how Palestine was incorporated into the Assyrian Empire. Now, numismatics is the study of coins and
		

			you can tell us a lot about history. Now, in the sixth to the fourth century BCE, Palestine had its
own coinage and currency, known as the fillister Arabian coins. This showed the economic prosperity
and autonomy of Palestine during the time. Now, the point is very clear that Arabs existed in
Palestine before Islam. And there are many other examples to cite. But here's another one, the
Council of Charleston held in 451 ad. As many of you know, it established the two natures of Jesus
according to the Christian biblical perspective, that he was both men and God. Now the city of Gaza,
in Palestine was represented at the Council of Charleston by an Arab Bishop. In fact, brothers and
		

			sisters and friends, historically speaking, the Byzantine emperors of Constantinople were the ones
who appointed Arab kings as rulers of Palestine, and per Justinian named Abu Kareem had been
jhabvala as the ruler of Palestine. So now brothers, sisters and friends, let's deal with the next
two points, which are two omissions, and the first omission is the admission of the Nakba. They have
admitted that the Nakba happened the catastrophe. The fact that hundreds of 1000s of Palestinians
were expelled from the homes have no right to return. The second admission we want to address here
is the brutality and immoral foundations of the occupation of Palestine. Let's start with the Nakba.
		

			Now the Nakba literally means disaster, catastrophe, or cataclysm, and it's also known as the
Palestinian catastrophe. And this was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948,
and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian Arabs and remember, they had no
right to return. And to summarize the Nakba. I'm citing Ahmed Hamada. He wrote an article for Islam
21 C recently, please read it, and it is called uncovering the unabashed allies between Peterson and
Netanyahu.
		

			He writes, over 700,000 were expelled from the homes 600 villages were burned to the ground and
water wells were poisoned to prevent Palestinians from returning Arabic village names where he
brutalized and modern Hebrew language and customs were practically invented from the language and
customs appropriated from the locals. Until the modern day. The policy of ethnic cleansing, land
appropriation killing and hybridization continues. More than 78% of Palestinian land has been
confiscated. alongside its water resources, livestock buildings of fertile earth, the rest is under
militarized occupation. Forget leaving it barren. Palestinians in many cases are prohibited from
		

			growing crops in swathes of their own land in the West Bank. If it is too close to a Zionist illegal
settlement. More than 60% of the West Bank remains under exclusive Zionist control, even if owned by
Palestinians, and is dead
		

			stagnated as a firing zone for Zionist military training.
		

			Also, my dear brothers, sisters and friends, let's not forget the immoral and brutal foundations of
Israel. Now, in the book, the Israeli lobby and US foreign policy, John Mearsheimer and Stephen
Walt, they actually describe the brutal and immoral foundations of the Zionist entity. And they cite
Ben Gurion, who was the first prime minister of Israel and its primary national founder. And what
I'm going to read to you now is actually disgusting is disgraceful. And it's shocking. So these
authors write this same scholarship. And the referring to Israeli scholarship also reveals that the
creation of Israel in 1948 involves explicit acts of ethnic cleansing, including executions,
		

			massacres, and rapes by Jews. Of course, Zionist leaders did not tell the troops to murder and *
Palestinians. But they did advocate using brutal methods to remove huge numbers of Palestinians from
the land that would soon be the new Jewish state. Consider what Ben Gurion wrote in his diary on
January 1 1948, at a time when he was involved in a series of important meetings with other Zionist
leaders about how to deal with the Palestinians in the midst.
		

			There is a need now for strong and brutal reaction. We need to be accurate about timing, place and
those we hit. If we accuse the family, we need to harm them without mercy, women and children
included otherwise, this is not an effective reaction. There is no need to distinguish between
guilty and not guilty. And let's say Moshe Dayan, again, at an aeration at a funeral of an Israeli
farmer that was killed by a Palestinian Arab in April 1956 said the following, let us not today
fling accusation at the murderers, what cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us?
For eight years now they sit in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before the eyes return into our
		

			homestead, the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. Now, we are ready
to respond to another deliberate omission. And what is this omission?
		

			The they are admitting that there was peaceful coexistence between Arabs, Muslims and Jews.
		

			And maybe this omission is basically trying to tell us there was no peaceful coexistence between
Arabs, Muslims and Jews. And I think this is very important, because this I feel addresses
Peterson's main issue with Islam.
		

			I don't think Peterson wants to adopt a religion or a worldview that has strong intellectual
foundations alone. He wants some kind of civilizational aspect, because I think he believes that the
Judeo Christian West is a successful civilizational project. And he may believe maybe
subconsciously, that Islam is a failed civilizational project. And I think what we're going to
mention now actually goes to show that Islam is the successful project, because the Islamic moral
value, there is amic system, the Islamic authority was the only authority that enabled Jews,
Christians and Muslims to live peacefully together in Palestine. And that shows the superiority of
		

			the Islamic worldview in Islamic civilization. But we'll have to unpack that another time. But let's
just mention a few things because I think it's very important to address this deliberate omission.
Now, as another caveat, you have to understand that there are so many historical nuances and we're
not here to go into a lengthy nuanced, academic historical study about this particular issue. And I
do believe that we shouldn't over glorify our history, or anyone's history, because the over
glorification of one's history is a sign of a defeated mind. However, the things that we are going
to mention that I am going to mention are things that you can connect back to the Islamic source
		

			texts, namely the Quran, and the prophetic way of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu ala he was salam,
may God's peace and blessings be upon him. So the first thing I want to do is start with the
biography of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Now, even Hashem a Islamic historian, he
narrates the text of the Treaty of Medina. And I'm not going to mention the whole treaty, but I'm
going to mention some of it in the context of Muslim Jewish relations. It says, It is incumbent on
all the Muslims to help and extend sympathetic treatment to the Jews who have entered into into an
agreement with us, neither and oppression of any type should be put
		

			perpetrated on them, nor should their enemy be held against them. It is incumbent on the parties to
treat each other sincerely, and to wish each other well. None shall be subject to the other to
oppression and injustice, and the oppressed shall be helped. Now, interestingly, Jews felt safe in
Jerusalem, all the way back
		

			in the ninth century, and there is a ninth century Jewish source is called sefer patron Torah. And
it says the following the people in whose hands the temple is today, namely the Muslims have made it
into a choice, excellent and honorable place of worship. They say, let us worship the one God who
created heaven and earth, to whom the creatures belong into the coming of the Messiah. And on that
day, the true worship will be renewed, and will be acceptable before God consider Benjamin of
Toluca, a Spanish Jew, who traveled to Baghdad in the 12th century in 1168. He described the
situation of Iraqi Jewry, these are his words, in Baghdad, there are about 40,000 Jews, and they
		

			draw in security, prosperity, and honor under the great Calif. And amongst them are great sages. The
heads of the academies engaged in the study of lone sitter and Italian Rabbi Obediah Yara debate,
Gennaro he traveled to Jerusalem, yes, Jerusalem in the 15th century in 1486, ce, and he wrote a
letter to his father telling him about the country and its people and listen to this.
		

			The Jews are not persecuted by the Arabs in these parts I have travelled through the country and its
length and breadth, and none of them has put an obstacle in though in my way, they are very kind to
strangers, particularly to anyone who does not know the language. And if they see many Jews
together, they are not annoyed by it. In my opinion, an intelligent man versed in political science
may easily raise himself to be chief of the Jews, as well as of the Arabs. Now the popular historian
Karen Armstrong, she notes in her book history of Jerusalem, that the Jews held the early Islamic
conquest of Byzantine lands as a mercy from God. And this is what she says, toward the end of the
		

			seventh century, a Hebrew poem hailed the Arabs as the precursors of the Messiah, and looked forward
to the gathering of the Jewish exiles and the restoration of the temple. Even when the Messiah
failed to arrive, Jews continue to look favorably on Islamic rule in Jerusalem. In a letter written
in the 11th century, the Jerusalem rabbis recalled the mercy God had shown his people when he
allowed the kingdom of Ishmael to conquer Palestine. They were glad to remember that when the
Muslims arrived in Jerusalem, there were people from the children of Israel with them, they showed
them the spot of the temple and they settled with them until this very day. In about 750, the Jewish
		

			author of the mysteries of Rabbi Simeon Ben Hall, he saw the building the Dome of the Rock as a
prelude to the Messianic age. He praises the Muslim Calif as a lover of Israel, and had restored the
breeches of Zion and the breaches of the temple. It is no wonder, an American Jewish historian Zion
Zoho, he confirms the Jewish appreciation of the Muslim arrival in Spain, because whether it was in
Jerusalem, or Baghdad or Spain, the Muslims carried the same values, the values from the Quran and
the prophetic way of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and this is what Zion Zohar
says. Thus, when Muslims crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from North Africa in 711 CE, and invaded
		

			the Iberian Peninsula, Jews welcomed them as liberators from Christian persecution. born during this
era of Islamic rule, their famous Golden Age of Spanish Jewry produce such luminaries as statesman
and diplomat, has stated Ben Shapiro that vizier and army commander shemwell Hana good point
philosophers Solomon had been Gabriel and Judah Halevy, at the apex of them all. Moses been Mamoon,
also known among the Spaniards, as Maimonides, and interestingly, Maimonides, he was the physician
of Salahuddin Allah UB.
		

			Now, having studied the Jewish history, and the Jewish sentiments about Muslim compassion,
		

			the pub
		

			Really historian Karen Armstrong says the following and Dr. Jordan Peterson needs to listen to this.
		

			Islam is not a failed civilizational project. Islam is not a failed civilizational project. Once we
are allowed to implement these timeless values from the Quran the prophetic way we will establish
this again, peace and justice and harmony for all people, Muslim Christians and Jews, which is
something that is not happening today under liberalism, secularism or Zionism. In actual fact,
liberalism, Zionism and secularism are the failed civilizational projects, because they have not
been able to bring Christians, Muslims and Jews together, living peacefully in Palestine, in
Jerusalem, both under Islam and Islamic values under the successful civilizational project called
		

			Islam that was able to do that and listen to what Karen Armstrong says. She says the Muslims had
established a system that enabled Jews, Christians and Muslims to live in Jerusalem together for the
first time.
		

			So let's deal with the final point, which is a false assumption that Israel is a good country, it's
a decent country. Now, by the way, I'm not passing comment on its citizens. This is a comment on the
authority of Israel, the Zionist entity, the political structures. And there's so much to say, but
I'll briefly just mention the fact that Israel, the Zionist regime, is actually brutal, and it is
facilitating apartheid. And it is not a good country. The first point, Israel has violated 20
resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, which are legally binding on member nations of
the UN is or has violated the Geneva Convention, specifically, Geneva conventions for article 33.
		

			Why, because due to the collective punishment of the Palestinians, especially in the crazed attack
of Gaza in 2014, and to add to this, we have a press release that was released on the 25th of March
2022. And it was released by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied
Palestinian territories, and it's entitled, Israel has imposed upon Palestine and apartheid reality
in a post apartheid world.
		

			And I quote Microlink Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian
territory occupied since 1967, said the report addressed the question as to whether Israel's
acquisitive and repressive practices over the course of its 50 year old regime had curdled from an
endless occupation into something darker, harsher, and more ominous. He had concluded that the
political system of a trench rule in the occupied Palestinian territory satisfied the prevailing
evidentiary standard for the existence of apartheid. Yes, brothers and sisters and friends,
apartheid another report by Human Rights Watch, and titled a threshold crossed Israeli authorities
		

			and the crimes of apartheid and persecution.
		

			State states, about 6.8 million Jewish Israelis and 6.8 million Palestinians live today between the
Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River and area and compass in Israel and the occupied Palestinian
territory, the latter made up of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
Throughout most of this area, Israel is the sole governing power. In the remainder It exercises
primary authority alongside limited Palestinian self rule across these areas and in most aspects of
life. Israeli authorities methodically privileged Jewish Israelis and discriminate against
Palestinians. laws, policies and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the
		

			objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has
long guided government policy. In pursuit of this goal. Authorities have dispossessed confined,
forcibly separated and subjugated Palestinians by virtue of the identity to varying degrees of
intensity in certain areas, as described in this report. These depravations are so severe that the
amount of the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution so to end brothers and sisters
and friends, I have addressed certain key claims false claims, the deliberate omissions and one
false assumption.
		

			But to conclude, and I think it's important to mention this as CEO of Sapiens institute that will
		

			would never engage with anyone in a neutral way if they are pro Zionist, or anti Palestinian, and
this now includes Dr. Peterson.
		

			Now, this doesn't mean we're not going to continue to give someone data to share Islam with them, of
course, but there are contexts and variables here. If someone is against the truth against justice,
they are against the Palestinians, they are pro Zionist, then we are going to hold them to account
and hopefully, this video is just the beginning. So any engagement will be based on holding them to
account responding to any lies and injustice, and at the same time, inviting them to Islam in the
best way. Masjid Al Aqsa is one of our red lines, truth and justice is non negotiable in Islam.
Peterson has opposed truth and justice in the way that he engaged with the wall criminal Netanyahu,
		

			and with the way he facilitated the twisting of reality, and the distortion of history, not to
mention the deafening silence of the brutality of Israel's birth, and its terror of the current
apartheid and ill treatment of the Palestinian people, many of which include our brothers and
sisters in Islam, and our brothers and sisters in humanity. And ignorance is not an excuse for such
grave matters. However, Islam does allow you turns the door to Mercy and Forgiveness is always open
until our last breath. Let us not forget the greatest enemies of Islam who fought and killed Muslims
embraced Islam, and were subsequently embraced by our beloved prophet Sallallahu ala he was selling
		

			them and let us not forget brothers and sisters, the Battle of Hood. Many lessons can be learned
from this. But in our context, we have to understand that there was a mistake by some of the Sahaba
the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and one can argue that that battle was
lost, to the degree where the companions were killed, and the beloved uncle of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was also killed and mutilated.
		

			The person was injured he was bleeding.
		

			And in that context, he was asked to invoke curse upon the polytheists. These are people who are
fighting the Muslims. These are people who injured our beloved prophet Sallallahu ala hewison. But
when he was asked to curse the polytheist What did he say? He said, I have not been sent at the
Invoker of curse, but I had been sent as a mercy.
		

			And this can be found in an authentic hadith narrated by Muslim finally brothers and sisters and
friends. Palestine will be liberated, whether people like it or not whether Dr. Jordan Peterson
likes it or not, or Benjamin Netanyahu likes it or not. Why? Because it is a truth. It is an
inevitability. It is a guarantee from Allah Himself. We believe that the Liberation of Palestine
will happen. We believe this more than we believe that the world is spherical. Why? Because it has
come directly from the Lord of the heavens in the earth. It is a guarantee.
		

			So I advise the likes of Dr. Jordan Peterson, and Benjamin Netanyahu, to be on the side of truth and
justice be on the winning team. And Dr. Jordan Peterson. If you've listened to this video, I
strongly recommend that you publish an apology for being an apologist for ethnic cleansing for being
an apologist for apartheid, and an apologist for Zionism, and an apologist for the twisting of
reality, and the distortion of history before I close brothers and sisters and friends, and I'm
addressing this with Dr. Jordan Peterson as well. Here's some further reading the ethnic cleansing
of Palestine buy in and pay the 100 Years War and Palestine by Rashid holiday. That is Israeli lobby
		

			and US foreign policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, and a book by Nora masala, which is
called Palestine a 4000 year history and I will provide other references and links at the bottom of
this video my dear brothers, sisters and friends, thank you very much for watching Salam Alaikum
Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh