This is so fucking comical and dire:
> Sunni Islamists who strongly advocate for the destruction of the State of Israel have propagated a false allegation that Israeli Jews are planting millions of gharqad trees throughout Israel in preparation for a dire war.[21] Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Ahmad Hussein evoked the tree in a 2012 speech, saying that it was planted around all of the Israeli settlements. Johannes Gerloff stated that most Arab Muslims know what it is, and noted a growing number of articles online about it. However, Israeli nurseries and botanists are unaware of the identity of the "tree of the Jew".[22]
In case you're missing context:
There's some hadith in Islam which says that when the end times come and Muslims slaughter all the Jews, and the Jews have to hide behind rocks and trees, the rocks and trees will come to life to rat out the Jews, saying "come here Muslims, there's a Jew hiding behind me" EXCEPT for a special kind of tree called "gharqad" which won't rat out the Jews because it's The Magic Jew Tree for some reason.
And so, of course, as if that weren't hilarious enough, some nutters came up with the conspiracy theory that Israel is planting The Magic Jew Tree all over Israel to defend itself. :blobcat-sob:
I legit have no faith in humanity when I read shit like this.
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