Not illegitimate, irrelevant. It's very hard to take Revelations seriously, and the parts about the "shoes made of hair" and "faces like shields" and all that makes the Muslim apocalyptic predictions almost as silly.

It's undeniable that large amounts of Muslims now are anti-semitic and claim religious reasons for that, including that verse, and they completely ignore the apocalyptic aspect of it, or the verse right next to it saying they'll wage war on the Turks. And obviously they're not going to change that just because I say so, or Tom says so. But at the very least we can keep pointing out that it's fake, it's propaganda.


The point is that at the time the Israeli-Palestinian conflict originated - to a certain extent in the first decades of the previous century, and full-blown in the twenties - there was no real reason why Jews and Arabs should hate each other. And if there wasn't then, there's no reason why there should be now, not anything other than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itself. Both religions have enough ambiguous or interpretation-dependent material in their religious books that they could've produced propaganda of a similar nature against various other nations or ethnicities if the need arose.