Female Palestinian students’ “role model” is terrorist who led murder of 37
Female Palestinian university students taught to view
terrorist Dalal Mughrabi who led murder of 37
as "role model"
- Coordinator of Fatah's university committee for women says about terrorist murderer: "We learn leadership from her... Dalal Mughrabi is a role model, like other heroic female Martyrs in Palestine. We draw willpower and determination from her"
- Fatah student movement song honors Mughrabi and other terrorist murderers:
"Abu Iyad lives and is not dead, his soul is with us...
Abu Jihad lives and is not dead...
O Jaffa, Dalal [Mughrabi] liberated your land"
- Fatah official glorifies terrorist murderers: "May we triumph for Yasser [Arafat], [Ahmed] Yassin, Abu Ali Mustafa, and [Fathi] Shaqaqi; may we triumph for Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine"
by Nan Jacques Zilberdik
An interview with the coordinator of the Fatah committee for women at the Palestinian universities provided another glimpse into Palestinian education of youth. Madeline Manna - the female coordinator of the committee that is named "Sisters of Dalal" after the female terrorist who led the murder of 37 Israeli civilians - explained that Dalal Mughrabi is a "role model" of female "leadership" for the female Palestinian students:
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Official PA TV host: "Let's recall the self-sacrificing operation (i.e., terror attack) carried out by heroic leader and Martyr Dalal Mughrabi who is considered an example of the Palestinian women's struggle."
Madeline Manna, Coordinator, Fatah university committee Sisters of Dalal: "In the Palestinian universities, especially in the Fatah Shabiba [Student Movement], the female student committees were named after Martyr Dalal Mughrabi - Sisters of Dalal - after the Martyr who was the commander of 11 men. We learn leadership from her, and that women always lead... Dalal Mughrabi is a role model, like other heroic female Martyrs in Palestine. We draw willpower and determination from her, and perseverance and [the will to] continue this struggle."
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Jan. 1, 2018]
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel's history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.
The presentation of Mughrabi as an example for imitation is not surprising as Palestinian Media Watch has documented numerous times that the PA has turned her into a role model for society. Terrorist Mughrabi's status as a "hero" among Palestinians was emphasized again recently when a center for women, which was funded by European money, was named after the murderer. Following PMW's exposure, Norway and Denmark withdrew their funding to the center.
Fatah's student movement Shabiba also honored murderer Mughrabi. In a music video Shabiba glorified Mughrabi as having "liberated Jaffa" and praised other terrorist murderers:
The presentation of Mughrabi as an example for imitation is not surprising as Palestinian Media Watch has documented numerous times that the PA has turned her into a role model for society. Terrorist Mughrabi's status as a "hero" among Palestinians was emphasized again recently when a center for women, which was funded by European money, was named after the murderer. Following PMW's exposure, Norway and Denmark withdrew their funding to the center.
Fatah's student movement Shabiba also honored murderer Mughrabi. In a music video Shabiba glorified Mughrabi as having "liberated Jaffa" and praised other terrorist murderers:
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"Our Shabiba (i.e., Fatah Youth Movement) is the Shabiba of the Elder (i.e., Yasser Arafat)
We are walking in your path, no matter what will be...
Abu Iyad lives and is not dead, his soul is with us, we will not forget him
Abu Jihad lives and is not dead, an idea never dies...
Fatah is my organization, O mother of the self-sacrificing fighters...
To Marwan Barghouti, the Shabiba sends its greatest greetings
Do not think that we have forgotten the blood that was spilled
O Jaffa, Dalal [Mughrabi] liberated your land."
[Facebook page of Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul, Dec. 14, 2017]
Promoting this message, Fatah Deputy Chairman and Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul posted the video with the following text added, also praising heads of terror organizations:
Posted text: "May we triumph for Yasser [Arafat], [Ahmed] Yassin (i.e., founder of Hamas), Abu Ali Mustafa (i.e., Sec.-Gen. of the PFLP), and [Fathi] Shaqaqi (i.e., founder of Islamic Jihad); may we triumph for Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine
#Jerusalem_the_capital_of_Palestine
#The_national_unity_is_the_climax_of_the_victory
#Friday_of_rage"
[Facebook page of Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul, Dec. 14, 2017]
Al-Aloul's post followed shortly after US President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Al-Aloul's call for a "Friday of rage" was one among many coming from PA and Fatah leaders, as PMW reported.
Similarly, Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muhammad Al-Laham listed terrorist Dalal Mughrabi among those "who are more honorable than all of us":
"[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas has said more than once in recent years that we are remaining here and not leaving... This is our land in which we are remaining. This period is the time of Ahed Tamimi (i.e., Palestinian teenager who attacked Israeli soldiers). From Dalal Mughrabi and all of the female and male Martyrs (Shahids) who are more honorable than all of us."
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Jan. 1, 2018]
The following are the terrorists mentioned in the song by the Fatah youth movement Shabiba and by Deputy Chairman of Fatah, Al-Aloul:
Dalal Mughrabi
Ahmed Yassin
Abu Ali Mustafa
Fathi Shaqaqi
Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf)
Abu Jihad
Marwan Barghouti
The following is a longer excerpt of Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muhammad Al-Laham's statement honoring terrorist Dalal Mughrabi and other terrorists:
Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muhammad Al-Laham: "Despite the difficulty in this situation, we Palestinians want nothing but resolve. [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas has said more than once in recent years that we are remaining here and not leaving. We have no scenario of a new exile, new displacement, or a new uprooting. This is our land in which we are remaining. This period is the time of Ahed Tamimi (i.e., Palestinian teenager who attacked Israeli soldiers). From Dalal Mughrabi (i.e., terrorist who led murder of 37, 12 of them children) and all of the female and male Martyrs (Shahids) who are more honorable than all of us - this is a production line that reaches my colleague [Fatah Revolutionary Council member] Kifah Harb who is speaking with you from the Balata [refugee] camp on the second screen, and she is a sister of heroes and the wife of Martyr Abdallah Daoud (i.e., terrorist responsible for many terrorist attacks), the Fatah hero, a son of the security establishment, an officer in the [PA] intelligence service, who the occupation forces accused of regularly recruiting male and female Martyrdom seekers, and especially Ayyat Al-Akhras (i.e., suicide bomber, murdered 2), a Martyr of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (i.e., Fatah's military wing) that is affiliated with the Fatah Movement. Therefore, [the occupation forces] expelled him until he died as a Martyr in Algeria. This is the Palestinian people that holds all of the tools and all of the tricks to respond to the occupation's policy."
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Jan. 1, 2018]