Denying Israel Is Denying the Quran

Exploring how the Quran affirms the Jewish right to Israel and calling on Muslims to uphold their faith honestly.

If Muslims believe the Quran is the word of God, then they must acknowledge what it clearly says. The Quran affirms that the Land of Israel was promised to the Children of Israel. It never once mentions Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Judea, or Samaria by name, and yet Jewish scripture written over a thousand years before Islam names these places repeatedly. These names are not merely poetic references but geographical markers tied directly to Jewish life, culture, and divine covenant. The Torah and Tanakh describe Jewish tribes, towns, and kings ruling in these very lands, and these records have been preserved and studied by Jews across the world for thousands of years.

The Quran itself does not deny this. In fact, Surah Al-Ma’idah 5:21 quotes Moses saying, “O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you.” In Surah Al-Isra 17:104, Allah says, “And We said after Pharaoh to the Children of Israel, ‘Dwell in the land, and when the promise of the Hereafter comes to pass, We will bring you forth in a mixed crowd.’” This is divine endorsement. It is not a call for conquest, not a license for Muslims to claim the land as their own, but a reaffirmation that the land belongs to the Jews. Even if one is not religious, these verses can be understood in their historical context, affirming a Jewish homeland in the land historically called Israel long before the rise of Islam.

The Prophet Muhammad did not begin his mission in Jerusalem or Palestine. He was born in Mecca, fled to Medina, and Islam spread across Arabia before it began expanding by conquest to the Levant, Persia, North Africa, and beyond. The fact that Islamic empires later conquered the Jewish homeland does not mean the Quran ever gave that land to Muslims. To the contrary, it affirms the opposite. The building of the Al-Aqsa Mosque came only after Muslim armies took Jerusalem. It was built on top of the Jewish Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. To deny Jews their right to return to their homeland is not only unjust but a rejection of God’s word. If Allah promised the land to the Jews, who are Muslims to break that promise?

Surah Al-Tawbah 9:71 says, “The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakat and obey Allah..” That is a call to unity, to mutual justice, not to hatred. The relationship between Muslims and Jews should be based on shared values, not conquest or jealousy. Jews have never tried to convert Muslims. They simply want a right to live in the land their ancestors came from, a land the Quran says was given to them.

Hamas has broken every principle of the Quran. They murder innocents, take hostages, rape women, and glorify violence. These acts are not only crimes under international law but sins against Islam. The Quran says, “Whoever kills a person… it is as if he has killed all of mankind” (Surah Al-Ma’idah 5:32). Hamas does not act in the name of faith but in the name of hatred. They break Allah’s promise by trying to destroy the people He gave the land to. They reject mercy, peace, and truth. No Muslim should support this.

If the Muslim world wants to claim the moral high ground, it must begin by reading its own book. A Jew believing in the Torah is not a threat to Islam. Denying a Jew’s right to exist in his ancestral land, however, is a threat to peace, to justice, and to the very faith Islam claims to uphold.

Let Muslims and Jews remember that they both claim to follow the God of Abraham. Let them not defy Him in the name of politics, hatred, or denial. Peace begins not with lies or propaganda but with truth. And the truth is already written.