In early June, a group of 15 Pakistanis – mainly from America – visited Israel on a trip organized by the American Muslim and Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council and by Sharaka, an Israeli non-governmental organization that was founded in the wake of the Abraham Accords to foster people-to-people connections between Israel and the Arab world.
The visit did not draw much attention in Israel or the Arab world, but in Pakistan the trip caused significant outrage.
One of the participants, journalist Ahmed Qureshi – whose talk show aired on the government-affiliated Pakistan Television Cooperation – was fired. Pakistani Information and Broadcasting Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb let Qureshi go after days of incitement against him by ousted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and various threats on social media.
“Pakistan’s policy on Palestine is clear,” Aurangzeb said.
Israel and Jews are highly unpopular in Pakistan.
“A common but unsubstantiated belief amongst many Pakistanis is that the Jews control the world’s finance and media industries,” Hamza Azhar Salam, a Pakistani journalist based in London and co-founder of The Pakistan Daily and Migrant News, observed in the Israeli news site Haaretz on May 25. “Just last year, during an interview with CNN, Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi alleged that Israel had ‘deep pockets’ and ‘they control the media…’ A consequence of this constant normalization of prejudice is that many Muslims, not least in Pakistan,...
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