The chief of police of Dubia, whom the world media have been quoting on a daily or near-daily basis (the AP alone finds it necessary to update us that the Australian police have gone to Israel to interview the former Australian citizens whose IDs were stolen for the hit, because they can tell them—uh, that their IDs were stolen for the hit).
And when the AP chose to report that the Dubai police commissioner said he would use “profiling” to “detect Israelis,” here’s what they wrote:
Dubai police will use voice and face profiling to detect Israelis arriving on foreign passports, the police chief said Monday.
[…] Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim said that now travelers suspected of being Israeli will not be allowed into the Gulf country even if they arrive on another passport.
[…] He did not explain what procedures would be used to identify the Israeli visitors, except that the police will “develop skills” to recognize Israelis by “physical features and the way they speak.”
Except that isn’t really what the police chief said. This is:
He said we will train our personnel in the passport of the forms and features of the Jewish people and their names, noting that no one can hide their features of Jewishness. He asked the appropriate departments to prepare nationality and residency sessions to familiarize the staff with [Jewish] forms and names, especially since most Jews hold dual passports [with Israel.]
As always, the world media whitewashes the naked anti-Semitism of the Arab world. The above could be taken directly from an official of Hitler’s Germany. But you wouldn’t know that from the mainstream media.
Of course, in this context, “Israeli” is a code word for “Jew.” I remember the account of a flight attendant years ago who was on a hijacked plane and survived. The hijackers handed her a bunch of passports and told her to separate the Jews. She refused, saying that she couldn’t tell who was Jewish and who wasn’t. The hijacker asked, “You mean you can’t tell who is an Israeli?” I read that many years ago and still remember it.
If he wants to find “the Jewish look” he’s going to find a lot of people who look like his own, because about half of Israel’s population are or are descended from refugees from Arab lands.
I’d suggest that the Jewish refugees, coincidentally about the same number as Arabs who left Israel for whatever reason during the War of Independence, left without any of their property and yet are not still in refugee camps sixty years later.
But every time someone tries to bring that up it’s dismissed as “provocative.” Damn right it’s provocative.