Iran’s new Supreme Leader calls Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’, Sa’ar: Sounds familiar

Iran's new leader Mojtaba Khamenei follows in his father’s footsteps with a series of anti-Israel posts on social media.

THREATENING TO ANNIHILATE JEWS

* Exodus 1:9-15 (by Pharoah).

* Esther 3:13. (by Haman)

* Ca 135 BCE (The Roman Emperor Hadrian imposed prohibitions that were intended to uproot religion [such as the prohibition of circumcision, the Sabbath, and the ordination of sages]. The Sages describe this period as a struggle for survival under the threat of complete annihilation for the observance of the Torah commandments).

* 167–164 BCE (historical decree by the Syrian-Greeks during the Seleucid persecution, where they demanded Jews publicly deny their faith by writing an explicit declaration of apostasy [before 'Hanukkah').

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* Spring of 1096 (Crusaders first attacked Jewish communities in the during the First Crusade: they marched through Europe toward the Holy Land, they carried out the Rhineland Massacres. An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Jews were killed or driven to mass suicide -- to avoid forced conversion -- in German and French cities like Mainz, Worms, and Cologne).

* 1099 (The Siege of Jerusalem by the second Crusades: When the Crusaders successfully took the Holy Land, they trapped and massacred the city's Jewish populations inside the main synagogue and the wider city).

* 1144-1946 (Blood Libels: The first recorded blood libel in Europe occurred in 1144 in Norwich, England. It began after a 12-year-old boy named William was found murdered; a local monk later fabricated a claim that Jewish residents ritually tortured and murdered him.
While the myth's origins trace back to anti-Jewish writings in the second century BCE, the Norwich incident established the medieval archetype of the blood libel. The last major, widely documented blood libel that resulted in mass violence occurred on July 4, 1946, during the Kielce pogrom in Poland after tge Holocaust. Historians estimate that there were between 100 and 150 recorded cases of blood libel that directly resulted in violence, torture, and massacres against Jewish communities between 1144 and 1946. Countless other unrecorded rumors, trials, and local pogroms took place during this 800-year span).

* 1343 (Roman Emperor Louis VI in , ‘You belong to us, body and belongings, and we can dispose of them and do with you as we please’).

* 1348 - 1351 (Jews were blamed for causing the Black Death. Christians falsely accused Jewish communities of poisoning public wells and water supplies to spread the bubonic plague).

* March 31, 1492, (Edicto de Granada: by Catholic Monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II. It mandated that all unconverted Jews—approximately 150,000 to 200,000 people—be expelled from Spain or face execution, completing the religious unification of the Iberian Peninsula. While the maximum number taken is up to 500,000 deportees at the Explusion).

* December 5, 1496: Expulsion from Portugal King Manuel I issued a decree of expulsion for Jews in Portugal. However, to prevent economic flight, he quickly banned Jewish emigration, resulting in mass forced baptism and birthing a new population of crypto-Jews who practiced in secret.

* 1506: The Lisbon Massacre. Over three days in April, a violent Catholic mob murdered between 2,000 and 4,000 "New Christians" (recently converted Jews) in Lisbon, looting their property and burning their bodies.

* 1516: The Venetian GhettoThe government of Venice established the Ghetto Nuovo, requiring all Jews to live in an enclosed, guarded quarter of the city. This introduced the term "ghetto" and initiated a new era of urban segregation.

* 1543 (Martin Luther, a foundational figure of the Protestant Reformation, published his highly antisemitic treatise. It advocated for the burning of synagogues, destruction of prayer books, and forced expulsion, deeply influencing later German cultural antisemitism).

* July 1555 (Papal Bull Cum Nimis Absurdum: Pope Paul IV issued a papal bull confining all Jews living in the Papal States to segregated, walled ghettos. It stripped them of property rights, restricted them to selling second-hand goods, and required them to wear distinctive yellow badges).

* September 1648: ('Tach veTat' - The Khmelnytsky Uprising. During a massive Cossack rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Hundreds of communities were destroyed in what is recognized as one of the largest single massacres of Jews in European history. Jewish chronicles from that period cite very high numbers of approximately 100,000 to 600,000 dead.).

* April 1819 (The Hep-Hep Riots: Anti-Jewish riots and violent pogroms erupted across the German Confederation. Mobs attacked Jews in response to emerging emancipation laws and early efforts to integrate Jewish citizens into European civil society).

* 1897 to 1903 (The notorious antisemitic forgery known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was produced in Russia. The forged document was created by agents of the Okhrana (the tsarist secret police), who plagiarized and adapted earlier 19th-century political satires. It has been used to incite and for murder ever since).

* 1918–1921 (The pogroms in Ukraine: In the most severe waves of violence known to European Jews before the Holocaust, estimates range from 50,000 to 200,000 Jews were murdered).

* 1903 (Kishinev Riots: In this event, 49 Jews were murdered, hundreds were seriously injured, and enormous property was destroyed).

* 1905–1906 (Odessa and Chernigov Pogrom: A wave of brutal riots in the area of the settlement, in which hundreds to a thousand Jews were killed in various locations).

* September 16, 1919 (Hitler's Gemlich Letter: "removal of the Jews altogether...")

* February 24, 1920 (The Nazi Party 25-Point Programme: Officially published by Adolf Hitler, Point 4 declared that Jews are explicitly stripped of citizenship and the right to exist as part of the nation, laying the legal groundwork for their systematic removal).

* April 1920 (Arab mob in the Holy land at Nebi Musa massacre: "We will drink the blood of the Jews" [Arabic: Nashrab dam al-Yahud] and "Muhammad’s religion was born with the sword" - after instigated by Islamic clerics).

* January 30, 1939 (Reichstag Speech)

* December 18, 1941 (Heinrich Himmler’s Logbook: Following a meeting with Hitler regarding the Jewish population in occupied Soviet territories, SS Chief Himmler noted the direct operational directive: "als Partisanen auszurotten" ["annihilate them as partisans"]).

* January 20, 1942 (The Wannsee Conference): SS General Reinhard Heydrich formally coordinated the "Final Solution" [Endlösung], explicitly mapping out the systematic deportation and industrial murder of all 11 million European Jews.

* November 21, 1941 (Arab-Palestine Islam leader Mufti - Hitler meeting: 'the Jews are yours')

* March 1, 1944 (The Muft's address via Nazi Radio Berlin [Radio Zeesen]: "Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them; this pleases Allah, history, and religion. This saves your honor. Allah is with you").

* September 29, 1947 (we'll "drench the soil of our beloved country with the last drop of our blood" - Jamal Husseini)

* 1947-1948 (Arab League's Azzam on October 11, 1947; Fawzi Kaukji - 1947-8, and Muslim Brotherhood on Aug 1, 1948: throwing the "Jews into the sea")

* March 8, 1965 (President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt: In a speech to the Arab National Assembly, Nasser stated, "We aim at the destruction of the State of Israel. The immediate objective is the total annihilation of Israel").

* May 27, 1967 ("Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight . . . The mining of Sharm el Sheikh is a confrontation with Israel. Adopting this measure obligates us to be ready to embark on a general war with Israel.” – Nasser).

* May 31, 1967 (“The existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear – to wipe Israel off the map. We shall, God willing, meet in Tel Aviv and Haifa.” – President Abdel Rahman Aref of Iraq).

* June 1, 1967 (PLO's Ahmad Shukeiri: "none of them will survive").

* February 20, 1970 (Muammar Gaddafi of Libya: In a public address broadcasted via Cairo Radio, Gaddafi stated, "The only solution for the Palestinian crisis is the destruction of Israel... The Jews must be wiped out from the map of the Middle East").

* August 7, 1979 (Islamic Revolution's Ayatollah Khomeini - addressed Muslims worldwide and called for the eradication of Israel, which he characterized as a "cancerous tumor" that needed to be cut out).

* August 18, 1988 (The "Pakestinian" Hamas Covenant Quote: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." - Article 7).

* January 30, 1996 ("We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt" - PLO's Yasser Arafat).

* December 14, 2000 - 2025 (Islamic Republic's Ali Khamenei - referred to Israel as a "cancerous tumor" that must be removed, and has publicly stated that the "Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor that must be excised .." Such utterness on: February 3, 2012, June 3, 2018, May 22, 2020, May 17, 2025).

* May 25, 2002 (Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah: During a speech in Beirut, Nasrallah explicitly stated, "If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide")

* October 26, 2005 (President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran): In a speech at the "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Ahmadinejad quoted Ayatollah Khomeini, explicitly stating that "Israel must be wiped off the map."

* December 12, 2006 (Iran International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust: Convened by the Iranian government, the conference served as an official state platform explicitly calling for the "dissolution" and total dismantling of the Jewish population center in the Levant).

* July 12, 2019 (Hamas' Fathi Hammad called for the eradication of Israelis globally, declaring that "we must attack every Jew on planet Earth – we must slaughter and kill them").

* April 7, 2023 (Sermon by Hamas' Hamad Al-Regeb - Prayed for the "annihilation" and "paralysis" of the Jews, describing them as ".. like apes and pigs," and calling for followers to "get to the necks of the Jews."

* October 7, 2023 (Hamas Military Commander Command: In a recorded broadcast launching the October 7 massacres, Mohammed Deif called upon armed groups worldwide to join the assault, using the explicit Arabic phrasing "to cleanse the land of its occupiers" and liquidate Jewish targets).

* October 24, 2023 (Hamas' Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas intended to repeat the October 7th attacks "again and again" until Israel is "annihilated." When asked explicitly if the goal was the complete annihilation of Israel, he replied, "Yes, of course").

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