Editing Hezbollah (section)

=== Attitudes and actions concerning Jews and Judaism ===
{{Main|Ideology of Hezbollah#Attitudes, statements, and actions concerning Jews and Judaism}}
Hezbollah officials have said, on rare occasions, that it is only "anti-Zionist" and not anti-Semitic.<ref name=Gleis/> However, according to scholars, "these words do not hold up upon closer examination". Among other actions, Hezbollah actively engages in [[Holocaust denial]] and spreads anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.<ref name=Gleis />

Various antisemitic statements have been attributed to Hezbollah officials.<ref>[http://www.economist.com/node/7796790 "Lebanon and Israel: Nasrallah wins the war"]. ''The Economist''. 17 August 2006. 18 November 2011.</ref> [[Amal Saad-Ghorayeb]], a Lebanese political analyst, argues that although Zionism has influenced Hezbollah's [[anti-Judaism]], "it is not contingent upon it because Hezbollah's hatred of Jews is more religiously motivated than politically motivated".<ref name="Saad-Ghorayeb">[[Amal Saad-Ghorayeb|Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal]]. ''Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion''. London: Pluto Press, 2002. pp. 168–186.</ref> [[Robert S. Wistrich]], a historian specializing in the study of anti-Semitism, described Hezbollah's ideology concerning Jews:

<blockquote>The anti-Semitism of Hezbollah leaders and spokesmen combines the image of seemingly invincible Jewish power&nbsp;... and cunning with the contempt normally reserved for weak and cowardly enemies. Like the [[Hamas]] propaganda for holy war, that of Hezbollah has relied on the endless vilification of Jews as 'enemies of mankind,' 'conspiratorial, obstinate, and conceited' adversaries full of 'satanic plans' to enslave the Arabs. It fuses traditional Islamic anti-Judaism with Western conspiracy myths, Third Worldist anti-Zionism, and Iranian Shiite contempt for Jews as 'ritually impure' and corrupt infidels. [[Sheikh Fadlallah]] typically insists&nbsp;... that Jews wish to undermine or obliterate Islam and Arab cultural identity in order to advance their economic and political domination.<ref>[[Robert S. Wistrich|Wistrich, Robert S.]] ''A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad''. New York: Random House, 2010. pp. 766–767.</ref></blockquote>

Conflicting reports say [[Al-Manar]], the Hezbollah-owned and operated television station, accused either Israel or Jews of deliberately spreading HIV and other diseases to Arabs throughout the Middle East.<ref name="Block">Block, Melissa. [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5658944 {{"'}}New Yorker' Writer Warns of Hezbollah's Radicalism"]. [[NPR]]. 16 August 2006. 16 February 2008.</ref><ref>Sciolino, Elaine. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/international/europe/12france.html "French Court Delays Decision on Hezbollah-Run TV Channel."] ''[[The New York Times]]'' 12 December 2004. 14 February 2008.</ref><ref>Carvajal, Doreen. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/international/europe/14france.html "French Court Orders a Ban on hezbollah-Run TV Channel"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. 14 December 2004. 14 February 2008.</ref> Al-Manar was criticized in the West for airing "anti-Semitic propaganda" in the form of a television drama depicting a [[Jewish world domination|Jewish world domination conspiracy theory]].<ref>Sciolino, Elaine. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E7DE1031F93AA35751C1A9629C8B63 " A New French Headache: When Is Hate on TV Illegal?"] ''[[The New York Times]]''. 9 December 2004. 16 February 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.adl.org/special_reports/protocols/protocols_recycled.asp "Anti-Semitic Series Airs on Arab Television."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115091803/http://www.adl.org/special_reports/protocols/protocols_recycled.asp |date=15 January 2013 }} [[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]. 9 January 2004. 16 February 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4442915&ct=5851751 "Urge President Chirac to Block Hezbollah's Antisemitic and Hate TV from broadcasting into France"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502035120/http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4442915&ct=5851751 |date=2 May 2013 }}. [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]]. 21 May 2008.</ref> The group has been accused by American analysts of engaging in Holocaust denial.<ref>[http://www.forward.com/articles/118631/ "Hezbollah Pressures School Into Dropping 'Anne Frank{{'"}}]. ''The Jewish Daily Forward''. 9 November 2009.</ref><ref>Satloff, Roger. [http://washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=987 "The Holocaust's Arab Heroes"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501010037/http://washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=987 |date=1 May 2020 }} The [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]]. 8 October 2006. 14 January 2009.</ref><ref>Stalinsky, Steven. [http://www.nysun.com/foreign/hezbollahs-nazi-tactics/36717/ "Hezbollah's Nazi Tactics."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010024529/http://www.nysun.com/foreign/hezbollahs-nazi-tactics/36717/ |date=10 October 2017 }} ''[[The New York Sun]]''. 26 July 2006. 14 January 2009.</ref> In addition, during its 2006 war, it apologized only for killing Israel's Arabs (i.e., non-Jews).<ref name=Gleis />

In November 2009, according to the [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]], Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school in western Beirut "which asked not to be identified", to eliminate from its [[curriculum]] excerpts from ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank]]'', a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.<ref>[http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/09/1009038/hezbollah-heavies-school-into-pulling-anne-frank "Hezbollah presses school into pulling Anne Frank"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112154443/http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/09/1009038/hezbollah-heavies-school-into-pulling-anne-frank |date=12 November 2009 }}. [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]]. 9 November 2009</ref> This was after Hezbollah's member of Lebanese parliament [[Hussein Hajj Hassan]], interviewed on the organization's Al-Manar television channel, criticized the school for "showing poor judgment in picking out its textbooks", and [[rhetorical question|asked]] how long Lebanon would "remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education".<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|date=June 11, 2009|title=Anne Frank diary offends Lebanon's Hezbollah|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3801302,00.html|work=[[Ynet]] |access-date=August 15, 2024}}</ref>

In ''[[The New Yorker]]'''s July 22, 2024 issue, [[Dexter Filkins]], in his report on the border fight between Israel and the organization, quoted a commander of Hezbollah, who had been active in its operations outside Lebanon, stating that the war between the "Zionist state" and the "party of God" would be "very simply" resolved, "when [the Jews] leave on the same boat they came on".<ref name=boat>{{cite magazine |last=Filkins|first=Dexter |author-link=Dexter Filkins|date=July 22, 2024 |title=Will Hezbollah and Israel Go to War? |url-access=subscription|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/29/will-hezbollah-and-israel-go-to-war |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=August 15, 2024}}</ref>