Disgusting as always, the New York Times excuses and facilitates Arab Jew-hatred, with a piece on the ugly literature touted as “anti-Zionist” at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Anti-Zionist Arab Books Criticized at Fair.

FRANKFURT, Oct. 8 - Publishers from Arab countries came to the Frankfurt Book Fair as the guests of honor, seeking understanding and tolerance as well as a greater appreciation of Arab culture and literature. But several publishers, as well as the book fair itself, have attracted criticism and charges of anti-Semitism for their display of at least a dozen books with strong anti-Zionist themes.

Leaders of the official Arab delegation to the fair said on Friday that they were not promoting anti-Jewish views, adding that while some books did contain anti-Zionist arguments, they were not racist. And book fair officials said that while they regretted that a small percentage of the 25,000 books on display from Arab publishers and writers were highly critical of Israel, the books did not appear to violate German laws against the incitement of hatred or crime.

What does the New York Times call “strong anti-Zionist themes?”

On the cover of one of the books, displayed by the Dar Tlass publishing house of Damascus, Syria, was a photograph of the World Trade Center exploding in flames during the 9/11 attacks. Overlaying the photo of the Twin Towers is a Star of David and a fingerprint.

Nearby, another book showed a Star of David covering the Statue of Liberty, which held, instead of a torch, a sword that dripped blood.

At the exhibit sponsored by the Egyptian Publishers Association, the Cairo-based publisher Dar el-Shorouk displayed “The Zionist Message and Its Terms,” whose title was translated by an Arabic representative of the publisher and whose cover portrays a field of Stars of David and menorahs. The book’s author, Abdel-Wahab el-Messeri, also wrote the “Encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism,” which some critics have said contains anti-Jewish themes.

The booth sponsored by Dar al-Salam, also of Cairo, displayed “Freedom of Belief in Islamic Law,” by Abdullah Nasih Ulwan. The English-language version of the book lays out “a concise view” of Islamic beliefs. Among them: “As for Jews, they are the most spiteful and cunning towards Islam and Muslims,” while “their plots against the Islamic system throughout history were too many to closely investigate.”

Shame on the New York Times once again, for whitewashing and minimizing the Arab world’s genocidal hatred of Jews—that erupts even in places like a book fair in Germany, where they are welcomed as guests of honor and where they know they’ll be seen. These hate-filled creatures feel safe in spreading their poison in the West in part because of newspapers like the New York Times, who find excuses for their behavior no matter how ugly and sickening.