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Although Malaysia presently has no substantial Jewish population, the country has reportedly become an example of a phenomenon called "antisemitism without Jews." The Anti-Defamation League's Global 100 Study found that 61% of Malaysia's adult population harboured antisemitic attitudes in 2013, a figure greater than in countries such as Indonesia and Iran at the time. In his treatise on Malay identity, The Malay Dilemma, published in 1970, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad wrote: "The Jews are not only hooked-nosed... but understand money instinctively... Jewish stinginess and financial wizardry gained them the economic control of Europe and provoked antisemitism which waxed and waned throughout Europe through the ages." In 1984, Malaysia banned the playing of Jewish songs as well as any music composed by Jews. In 2003, Mahathir's political party distributed Malay language copies of Henry Ford's antisemitic book The International Jew. In 2011, the Malay-language Utusan Malaysia daily stated in an editorial that Malaysians "cannot allow anyone, especially the Jews, to interfere secretly in this country's business... When the drums are pounded hard in the name of human rights, the pro-Jewish people will have their best opportunity to interfere in any Islamic country. We might not realize that the enthusiasm to support actions such as demonstrations will cause us to help foreign groups succeed in their mission of controlling this country." Prime Minister Najib Razak's office subsequently issued a statement late Monday saying Utusan's claim did "not reflect the views of the government." In 2020, Mary Ainslie of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China said there were signs of an increasing rejection of antisemitism in Malaysia, including from younger Malays.
=== Lebanon ===
In 2004, Al-Manar, a media network which is affiliated with Hezbollah, aired a drama series, The Diaspora, which observers allege is based on historical antisemitic allegations. BBC correspondents who have watched the program state that it quotes extensively from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It has also been noted that Hezbollah affiliated schools include antisemitic material and material which is meant to incite extremism in their curriculum.
=== Pakistan ===
In Pakistan, negative stereotypes of Jews are widely believed. Jews are falsely accused of being "miserly" in fact, the Bene Israel who lived in Pakistan had numerous sororal and fraternal organizations which assisted Jews who were members of different denominations as well as practitioners of other faiths prior to Partition. The founding of the Islamic state of Pakistan immediately prior to the creation of Israel in the Levant created insecurity among Pakistan's Jews. After Israel's independence in 1948, violent acts were committed against Pakistan's small Jewish community of about 2,000 Bene Israel Jews. The synagogue in Karachi was attacked, along with individual Jews. The persecution of Jews resulted in their exodus to India as refugees, many of them subsequently migrated to Israel, Canada, the United States, the UK and many Commonwealth countries. As a result, the Jewish community of Peshawar ceased to exist. Pakistani cricket icon Imran Khan's marriage to Jemima Goldsmith in 1996 caused a furor in Pakistan, where Khan was accused of acting as an agent for the "Jewish Lobby". Egyptian newspapers in Pakistan made other antisemitic accusations against Khan. After Khan complained, the stories were retracted.
=== Saudi Arabia ===
Saudi textbooks vilify Jews, they call Jews apes; they demand that students do not interact with or befriend Jews; they claim that Jews worship the devil; and they encourage Muslims to engage in Jihad to vanquish Jews. Saudi Arabian government officials and state religious leaders often promote the idea that Jews are conspiring to take over the entire world; as proof of their claims, they publish and frequently cite The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as factual. In 2004, the official Saudi Arabian tourism website stated that Jews and holders of Israeli passports would not be issued visas to enter the country. After an uproar, the restriction against Jews was removed from the website although the ban against Israeli passport-holders remained. In late 2014, a Saudi newspaper reported that foreign workers of most religions, including Judaism, were welcome in the kingdom, but Israeli citizens were not.
=== Palestine ===
In March 2011, the Israeli government issued a paper claiming that "Anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages are heard regularly in the government and private media and in the mosques and are taught in school books," to the extent that they are "an integral part of the fabric of life inside the PA." In August 2012, Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry director-general Yossi Kuperwasser stated that Palestinian incitement to antisemitism is "going on all the time" and that it is "worrying and disturbing." At an institutional level, he said the PA has been promoting three key messages to the Palestinian people that constitute incitement: "that the Palestinians would eventually be the sole sovereign on all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea; that Jews, especially those who live in Israel, were not really human beings but rather 'the scum of mankind'; and that all tools were legitimate in the struggle against Israel and the Jews." In August 2014, the Hamas' spokesman in Doha said on live television that Jews use blood to make matzos. During a meeting of the Palestinian National Council in 2018, President Mahmoud Abbas, who has a history of controversial statements about The Holocaust, stated that Jews in Europe were massacred for centuries because of their "social role related to usury and banks." The speech was widely condemned by Israel, the United Nations, the European Union, Germany, Sweden, United States, former officials of the Obama administration, Peace Now and the Anti-Defamation League. A New York Times editorial said "Let Abbas's vile words be his last as Palestinian leader."