An Islamic journal where Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's top aide, was assistant editor published an article accusing Jews of 'working the American political system' – and being aided by the 'memory of the Holocaust'.

Abedin, who is vice-chair of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, spent 12 years as an assistant editor for Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs.

Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is the journal's editor-in-chief and has been accused of espousing the views of the Muslim Brotherhood through the publication.

Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan, is an associate editor and her sister, Heba, is an assistant editor.

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Huma Abedin was listed on the journal's masthead for more than a decade after she joined Clinton's team in 1996, rising from White House intern to one of the presidential nominee's closest confidantes.

She is a likely pick for chief of staff in a Clinton administration.

The magazine's views have continually clashed with the ideological principles in which Clinton has rooted her political career, including articles embracing anti-Western, homophobic, anti-feminist and anti-Semitic views.

Abedin worked at the journal under her mother, who remains editor-in-chief

One article, published during Huma Abedin's tenure, claimed that many Americans have a 'distorted and negative view' of Islam, Muslims and Arabs - ranging from perceptions of 'poverty, filth, the desert' to ideas that 'their 'sport' (other than sex, of course) is to destabilize Western economies and ruin the world in order to master it'.

The piece from 1999 also alleges that there are deep ties between the upper echelons of U.S. politics and pro-Israeli, Jewish-Americans, suggesting that Jewish people have been able to 'work the system' and are 'greatly aided by the American memory of the Holocaust' and Israel serving as America's ally in the Middle East.

The article was written by Michael W. Suleiman, a professor of Arab studies at Kansas State University who died of cancer in 2010.

'Within the US, pro-Israeli support has been strong among Jewish Americans, whereas Muslim and Arab Americans (another ethnic community) have sympathized with the Palestinians,' the article reads.

'However, Jewish Americans have had a distinct advantage over Muslims and Arabs in the US in that they are better organized, more committed, more united, and generally far better adept at working the American political system of presidential democracy.

'In this they have been greatly aided by the American memory of the Holocaust, the use of Israel as an American 'strategic ally' in the Middle East, as well as by the active missionary zeal and political support of Christian Zionists.'

At her side: Huma Abedin with Hillary Clinton. The journal, which bore her name on its website before she was appointed as Clinton's top aide, has opposed women's rights and blamed the US for 9/11

Hillary pictured with Saleha Mahmood Abedin, mother of Huma, at a women's college in Jeddah in 2010. She remains editor-in-chief of the controversial publication

The article goes on to say that while other minority groups in the U.S. have made great progress in equality, 'it seems that the only people that continue to be presented negatively and maligned with impunity are the Muslims/Arabs'.

According to the journal, 'the mass media and especially the entertainment industry has both fostered and re-enforced the image of Muslims/Arabs as villains'.

The article claiming that Jewish people have been able to 'work the system' was written by Michael Suleiman of Kansas State University. Suleiman passed away in 2010

The purpose of viewing Muslims as 'the enemy', the article claims, is to keep them out of the political arena, adding that: 'Some powerful politicians perceive (or find it politically convenient to perceive) Islam/Arabs/Arabism as a threat to the national interest.'

'Other reasons include the impact of the religious (Christian) right (especially the millenarians), the influence of pro-Israeli Zionist groups, and the fact that many politicians find that the American political system and the role of pressure groups in it force them to avoid association with Muslims/Arabs (a potential political liability) and/or to seek favor with pro-Israeli supporters, a likely political asset.'

The article concludes that Muslims are often successfully excluded from American politics by way of 'handicaps, rebuffs, and dirty tricks'.

In the wake of 9/11, Abedin's mother wrote an editorial suggesting that the U.S. bore responsibility for al-Qaeda's attack.

In 2001, Saleha Mahmood Abedin wrote: 'As incomprehensible as it may seem to the common observer, something catastrophic seemed to loom on the horizon for the watchers of the world scene.

'The spiral of violence having continued unabated worldwide, and widely seen to be allowed to continue, was building up intense anger and hostility within the pressure cooker that was kept on a vigorous flame while the lid was weighted down with various kinds of injustices and sanctions.

'This was further intensified by the demographic and socio-economic pressures that came with their own set of factors promoting social and political instability and, at the individual level, anger, frustration and a sense of deprivation.

'It was a time bomb that had to explode and explode it did on September 11, changing in its wake the life and times of the very community and the people it aimed to serve. Muslims everywhere are now singled out as 'one of those'.'

In 1996, the Journal appeared to clash directly with Clinton's worldview.

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In September 1995, Clinton, then First Lady, delivered a speech at the UN Women's Conference in Beijing, where she argued against violence towards women across the world. Her words, 'Women's Rights are Human Rights', became a rallying cry of the feminist community.

Months later, Abedin's journal appeared to play on Clinton's words with an article entitled Women's Rights Are Islamic Rights, written by Saudi Arabian academic Ahmad Mohammad Ali, now president of the Islamic Development Bank.

The article is based on excerpts of an open letter from the Secretary General of Muslim World League to the UN ahead of that 1995 conference.

The article argued that the only definition of family that a Muslim would accept was 'established through a marriage contract between a man and a woman, and extended through procreation'.

It also suggested that 'pushing them [women] out into the open labor market is a clear demonstration of a lack of respect of womanhood and motherhood'.

The excerpts also stated that although the terrible exploitation of women and girls was important, that promoting women are sex objects 'invite prejudice and violence directed against them'.

'This increases the challenges that women face in preserving their personal dignity. In a society vitiated by spiritual vacuum and an upsurge in normlessness, this directly translates into unwanted results of sexual promiscuity and irresponsibility and indirectly promote violence against women,' it read.

Abedin, who is married to disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner, who is Jewish, has denied having a working role on the Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs.

Her name first appeared on the magazine in 1996 and was dropped in 2008 around the time she went to work for Clinton at the State Department.

'My understanding is that her name was simply listed on the masthead in that period. She did not play a role in editing at the publication,' a Clinton spokesman told the New York Post this week.