Coming from a historian, this is nothing short of intellectual malpractice. The Quran rails against the “inequity of the Jews” (4:160) and compares them to “apes and swine” (5:60) and “donkeys” (62:5). It says Jews are “evil” (62:5), and the enemy of Muslims: “Strongest among men in enmity to the Believers wilt though find the Jews” (5:82). Ali puts a finer point on the anti-Semitic text, supplying his own derogatory remarks. He says Jews are “beasts of burden” who have “corrupted” the message of