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PMW Op-Ed: Hamas Documents Illustrating their Plans to Murder and Take Captives on October 7th

It is clear that Israel’s willingness to agree to prisoner exchanges encourages more Palestinians to carry out terror attacks, as the threat of prison has been undermined as a deterrent.

For most people, Holocaust memorial events such as those that recently took place to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day are crucial both to remember the victims and to ensure that the horror of Nazism can never again raise its head. In the Palestinian Authority (PA), Holocaust remembrance is a very different story.

A top American Jewish umbrella group urged on Thursday the Palestinian Authority (PA) to end its financial support of terrorists and their families. The statement by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations followed a Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) report that the PA...

Fatah’s call for violence appeared in an Arabic-language Facebook post, translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

Fatah Posts Antisemitic Al Jazeera Video After Network Takes It Down

Palestinian Television Claims Images of Holocaust Victims Show Arabs Killed by Jews

"According to local watchdog PMW, the PA’s official daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Ideiss as decrying the incident as a “cowardly attack against a religious and sacred place of worship..."

"PMW notes that the charge has actually been promoted countless times by PA officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas."

"According to monitoring group PMW, the official Fatah Facebook page posted a photo of Israeli medics on the scene of the rocket strikes and wrote, 'Going down to the shelters, their hearts filled with fear.'"

"PMW noted that the incident is by no means the first time such accusations against Israel have been made."

"Bakr 'emphasized that the leadership… will not succumb to the Israeli and American pressures calling to stop the Martyrs’ and prisoners’ salaries and allowances,' reports the official PA daily, as translated by PMW."

"PMW, the Jerusalem-based monitoring group that first uncovered the change, said Belgium’s 'good intentions' were being undermined by the PA’s simultaneous decision to name two other schools in Beit Awwa after Mughrabi."

"After the monitoring group PMW brought the institute to public attention last October, a spokesperson for the Belgian Foreign Ministry told The Algemeiner that the country would 'not allow itself to be associated with the names of terrorists in any way.'"

"[A] damning report on Rajoub’s activities issued by the Israeli NGO PMW in 2016 emphasized his defiance of the 'fundamental Olympic goal to use sports as a bridge to peace' by naming sporting competitions in honor of Palestinian terrorists."

US and Israeli leaders have responded to PMW's report, released yesterday, with calls to cut funding to the PA. (March 29, 2018)

"Belgium is upholding its commitment to suspend construction projects with the Palestinian Ministry of Education, a spokesperson for Brussels told The Algemeiner after a Belgian official was spotted at the inauguration of a new Palestinian school[, reported by PMW]."

"The research organization Palestinian Media Watch can undoubtedly supply the [Trump] administration with a list of relevant names [of streets and institutions in the PA named after terrorists]."

“What we see from the sermons that are broadcast on Palestinian television is that there are often calls to incitement,” said Marcus...

“We would like to bring to your attention that the Palestinian Scout Association (PSA), which six months ago was accepted as a full member in the World Organization of the Scout Movement, is training its scout leaders to see a cold-blooded terrorist murderer as their role model,” Itamar Marcus,...

The head of an Israel-based research organization ridiculed PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday for “creating, as policy, a virtual reality in which all truth is turned upside down.” Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), was referring to a report in the official...

"Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas admitted that the PA is paying salaries to terrorists incarcerated in Israeli prisons despite previous public assurances that such payments had ended, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported."

"Itamar Marcus, who runs the Israel-based watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch, told The Algemeiner... that the claim the PA was shutting down Al-Aqsa TV because of incitement was 'clearly not the real motivation... The PA and Fatah in particular have been incessantly glorifying the..."

"Blaming Israel for the massive, coordinated terror attacks in Paris on Friday is part and parcel of Palestinian Authority ideology and policy, the director of Palestinian Media Watch told The Algemeiner."

"The Knesset Education Committee convened Wednesday to discuss incitement against Israel and Israelis in the Palestinian Authority (PA) education system... According to Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, at least 25 PA schools are named after terrorists."