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The PA has paid terrorists and their families some $66 million in the first five months of 2019, Palestinian Media Watch finds.

"Attorney Maurice Hirsch, who served as the director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria and now heads PMW's legal department, called the cabinet's decision 'an excellent start.'"

"The Palestinian Authority is continuing its practice of naming schools after terrorists and Nazi collaborators, according to a new report by watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch."

“In its just-released annual report on religious freedom, the State Department cited the Palestinian Authority’s official media for presenting anti-Semitic material… To the uninitiated, the State Department’s conclusion might not appear like much of a revelation, thanks to organizations like Itamar...”

Palestinian Media Watch watchdog organization... has for years documented and translated Rajoub's statements in the Palestinian press... The Rajoub File, which researchers from PMWW have spent the last few weeks compiling, was recently placed before Israeli decision-makers.

Last month, Palestinian Media Watch approached Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen... PMW list[ed] incriminating examples of senior Fatah leadership glorifying and inciting terrorism against Israelis."

"The Norwegian city of Stavanger should cut ties with its sister city of Nablus, Stavanger city council member Mats Danielsson has proposed... after Palestinian Media Watch reported in August that the Palestinian Authority had dedicated another square in Nablus to the memory of a terrorist."

"Stop by a Friday sermon on the Temple Mount and hear a lesson given by the vaunted preacher, the mover of mountains, Sheikh Khaled al-Mughrabi, who teaches at Al-Aqsa mosque twice a week. After you hear his sermon (which can be seen on the Palestinian Media Watch website), you too will want to go..."

"Palestinian Media Watch does holy work in following, monitoring and reporting about the ongoing incitement on official PA websites and social media accounts."

"...[D]isplays of Jew-hatred and incitement to violence — thankfully monitored and translated daily by Palestinian Media Watch — are not only commonplace in the PA; they are sanctioned and promoted by it."

"Courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch we have learned that [Jibril] Rajoub opposes any sports activity between Palestinian and Israelis, referring to it as 'a crime against humanity.'"

"According to a Palestinian Media Watch report from May 18, the Palestinian Authority continues to pay salaries to convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons, despite promising EU and U.S. donors in 2014 that this practice had stopped."

"The Palestinian Media Watch institute exposed that just a week ago, the official television channel ‎of the PA chose to broadcast a clip in which a school pupil calls to kill Jews ('We will fight the ‎Jews, kill them and overcome them.') This, of course, isn't the only incitement. Last year, the..."

"In 2011, Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch spoke before the US Congress to explain how this money was being cynically used to encourage the slaughter of Israeli Jews by paying healthy monthly salaries to those sitting in Israeli jails, or to the families of terrorists killed during..."

"Not a day goes by without another fiery Palestinian Authority incident of incitement (painstakingly documented and broadcast to the world by the good work of Palestinian Media Watch). This hatred has metastasized like a cancer and an entire generation has grown up steeped in it. The horrific..."

"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' adviser on religious and Islamic affairs, Mahmoud al-Habbash... has been quoted repeatedly advocating the importance of ribat, or Muslim religious war, and encouraging conflict with Israel... Palestinian Media Watch catalogued al-Habbash's extensive..."

"Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch reported this week that in recent weeks Mahmoud al-Habash, Mahmoud Abbas' adviser on religious affairs, has adopted the terminology and religious belief of Hamas, which portrays peace with Israel as a violation of Islamic law."

"Last month, when the terrorists who abducted and murdered Israeli teenagers Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel near Hebron in June (a trigger for Operation Protective Edge) were apprehended and killed when they opened fire on Israeli soldiers, the official PA TV channel broadcast the..."

"If Hamas manages to establish a foothold in the West Bank, it would be able to wipe out Israel and establish an Islamic state in its stead, senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar told Palestinian news outlet Al-Ayyam on Wednesday. The interview, translated and posted by Palestinian Media Watch on..."

"While Hamas operates for the most part underground, Fatah is out in the open... They [Fatah] also use the PA's official media organs, as documented by the watchdog Palestinian Media Watch. The public statements made recently by senior Fatah officials teach us that the language and terminology used..."

Nearly every day, there is some clear and transparent indication of the Palestinian Authority's true intentions, meticulously documented by Palestinian Media Watch. Not a day goes by without the Palestinian Authority's television station inciting its people to hate and kill Jews, naming squares and...

Material provided by outlets such as Palestinian Media Watch, which has for years documented the widespread lies and incitement against Israel and Zionism within internal Palestinian discourse, casts doubt on any and all of Abbas' statements. The work of PMW and others has shown how Holocaust...

"If you truly want to know from which hateful and poisonous springs the murderers now being released drew their loathing of Jews; if you have asked yourself what causes a Palestinian, like Hazem Kassem Shbair, who is now being released from prison, to axe to death a 68-year old survivor of the..."

"Palestinian Media Watch uncovers footage from Palestinian Authority television showing two young sisters reciting a poem that demonizes Jews: Jews are 'most evil among creations, barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs,' the girls say."

"In a telling example of just how genuine, or, rather, how false, Israel's peace partners in the Palestinian Authority are, a monument that replaces the entirety of the land of Israel with a State of Palestine was hastily removed from Bethlehem before US President Barack Obama visited a little over..."