That's pretty vile. You could find that sort of thing from lots of sources in Europe and America, especially from especially the same people who detest Muslims and Black people.

What is more unnerving is the idea this kind of thing being published in a mainstream publication, with the consequent implication that it is OK.

But this is what happens as conflicts generate and authorise extremism.

"Hitler is the natural and continuous product of a breed which from the dawn of history has been predatory and bellicose". It is in the innate evil of the "German ' character - the character of the German people as a whole - that the world's problem is to be found". That was written by a senior member of the British Government, Lord Vansittart, in a book produced by a respectable British publisher in 1942.

Crazy talk. But crazy talk like that gets an audience in crazy times.

As for Fatma Abdallah Mahmoud, whatever else he may be, he is no true friend of the people of Palestine. And they can't be blamed for what he wrote, any more than the people who suffered in the Blitz can be blamed for the kind of poison Lord Vansittart spewed out, which was in fact was very useful to the Nazis as propaganda. It helped hold people together to resist defeat which was presented as meaning total destruction of the German people.