Muslim Support for Israel NEWSRAEL Editor SEP 29, 2025
Muslim Scholars throughout history admitted that the Koran affirms the Jewish right to Israel
Israel’s enemies insist that Jews have no claim to their ancestral land. Yet the Koran itself — and some of Islam’s greatest scholars — affirm the opposite: that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jews, and that they would return.
Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:21) commands: “O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you.” Surah Al-Isra (17:104) foretells: “And We said to the Children of Israel after him, ‘Dwell in the land, and when the promise of the Hereafter comes to pass, We shall bring you as a mixed crowd.’”
MUSLIM SCHOLARS WHO AFFIRMED JEWISH RETURN:
AL-TABARI (d. 923) — In his Tafsir al-Tabari on 17:104, he explains:
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