PA Antisemitism alive and kicking on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
PA Antisemitism alive and kicking
on International Holocaust Day
on International Holocaust Day
- While the world is busy discussing ways to uproot and eradicate Antisemitism, the PA is busy cementing and preserving it.
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By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
As the world commemorates International Holocaust Day today, Palestinian Media Watch documents that Palestinian Authority leaders are still spreading antisemitic hatred. These hate messages are also directed at Palestinian children, and thus passed on to the next generation. While the world is busy discussing ways to uproot and eradicate Antisemitism, the PA is busy cementing and preserving it.PMW finds that antisemitic messages have increased in the PA in recent years. They are not mere hate incitement but represent a systematic hate ideology.
The Jews are presented as the source of all evil in the world, as in these hate messages on official PA TV:
PA leader Abbas' close advisor declared that the conflict with Israel "is not new" but is the continuation of the battle throughout history against Jews who represented "evil, falsehood, and Satan." Israel, he says, is therefore "Satan's project." Abbas himself has said that the Jews suffered the Holocaust due to their behavior - because of their "social roles" connected to "usury and banks." A PA religious figure explained that Hitler was sent by Allah to punish the Jews, as were the Babylonians, Romans, and other Europeans.
Significantly, PA Antisemitism includes the teaching that these alleged character traits are inherent to Jews and unchanging, and therefore Jews must be eliminated for the benefit of humanity. This is how it was worded in a sermon on official PA TV just six weeks ago:
"These malignant genes... they transfer them from generation to generation. They inherit it from father to son."
Accordingly, "humanity will never be able to live together with them" and the only solution then is to exterminate the Jews, which is Jewish destiny:
"At the end of time the Muslims will fight the Jews... 'Until the Jews hide behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or a tree will say: 'Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him'... count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one."
Palestinians who accept these teachings will feel justified and even motivated to kill Israelis/Jews.
With this messaging from the PA leadership, it is not surprising that the ADL Global 100 poll in May 2014 found that Palestinians are the most antisemitic people in world. The poll found that 93% of Palestinians believed that at least 6 of the 11 negative stereotypes tested were "probably true." For example, 78% of Palestinians believe that "Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars," which is a direct conclusion from PA teachings. The PA's antisemitic ideology can be summarized into the following 5 categories:
1. Jews are inferior to all other people
2. Jews are Satan's representatives and responsible for all evil in the world
3. The evil of the Jews exists in their nature and in their genes and is not repairable. The bad Jewish character traits made it unbearable for other nations to live with them
4. Allah punished the Jews through other peoples who fought them - including Hitler - but throughout history the Jews have not learned and have not changed or atoned for this
Therefore:
5. The extermination of all Jews is necessary for the good of all humanity
The following hate-filled sermon, which was broadcast 6 weeks ago on official PA TV, includes all these elements:  |  |
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Sheikh Osama Al-Tibi: "These are the Jews who haven't changed throughout history... These are the Jews who expose their fangs whenever they get the chance. They are causing devastating corruption throughout the land... We must mention... the truth about these Jews, which Allah wrote in his book [the Quran] Among the Jews' characteristics is that they have offended Allah... They murdered the prophets.... They strove to kill Prophet [Muhammad]... Another characteristic is that they are cursed, and they have been denied Allah's mercy... And among their vile characteristics is that they have breached contracts, conventions, and agreements. 'So for their breaking of the covenant We cursed them' [Quran]. 'And made of them apes and pigs and slaves of Taghut' [Quran]. These are the Jews... Always fighting, always corrupting, always scheming, and always plotting against humanity - not just against the Muslims, but rather against all humanity... And another characteristic is that Allah has imposed on them humiliation and misery... So how did Allah curse them, the Jews at the time of Prophet [Muhammad], since these things [sins] were done by their ancestors? The [Quran] commentators explained: ... these malignant genes and cursed characteristics continue in them. They transfer them - Allah save us - from generation to generation. They inherit it from father to son... Humanity will never be able to live together with them. And that's why, my brothers, even Europe, America, and others have spit them out, down to the last one... Our prophet [Muhammad] informed us [that] at the end of time the Muslims will fight the Jews until the Jews hide behind a stone or a tree... The tyranny of the Jews did not just reach humans, but also the inanimate objects and all creatures:
'Until the Jews hide behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or a tree will say: 'Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him' ... Allah, strike your enemies, the enemies of the religion, count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one."
[Official PA TV, Dec. 14, 2018]
The following are additional examples from the last two years from PMW's extensive archive of antisemitic hate speech by PA leaders, including educators and clerics preaching on official PA TV. Some of the examples demonstrate that Palestinian children have been taught and have absorbed these harmful messages. The examples appear chronologically:PLO official: "Jews... knew only to make money, trade, weave plots, corruption... The European nations and Russia were sick of them"
Explaining the reason for the creation of Israel, a PLO official repeated the antisemitic stance that Europe supported the idea in order to get rid of the Jews. (Nov. 4, 2018)
Europe was sick of the Jews and planned to get rid of them: PA explains the Balfour Declaration and European support for Zionism
Explaining to Palestinians why Europe helped create the state of Israel, PA Minister of Education Sabri Saidam posted a video produced by official PA TV, with a classic antisemitic explanation: "The old continent was sick of the behavior of the Jews at the time, and therefore it planned to get rid of them." (Nov. 2, 2018)
Hitler was sent by Allah to punish the Jews - PA TV sermon
A preacher on official PA TV taught that Hitler was one of a series of people sent by Allah throughout history to punish the Jews because of their evil behavior, and to teach them a lesson. However, in spite of all these punishments the Jews "have not learned from the events of history," and continue their evil ways. (Oct. 19, 2018)
Jews "dance and live on the body parts of others" and are behind "global corruption," says PA Islamic Judge on PA TV
A judge in the PA's Islamic court system taught that Jews "dance and live on the body parts of others, and on the blood of others," and that "there is no global corruption that their rabbis did not allow." (Oct. 5, 2018)
Jews' usury caused Antisemitism - speech by PA Chairman Abbas
Abbas exposed his antisemitic beliefs in a speech, claiming that the Jews brought Antisemitism upon themselves because of their "social roles" connected to "usury and banks." He said it was this Jewish behavior that led to "massacres by some state every 10 to 15 years from the 11th century until the Holocaust" (April 30, 2018)
Europe's desire to get rid of remaining Jews after WWII made it support Zionism, says Abbas advisor
The antisemitic PA narrative that Zionism was a European scheme to get rid of the Jews, because Jews were damaging European society, was repeated by senior advisor of Abbas, Mahmoud Al-Habbash. (April 24, 2018)
We'll take Jerusalem "if not peacefully then by force... Allah, drive out the Jews" - PA TV preacher
Preacher on official PA TV: "The Jews are an arrogant and tyrannical enemy, occupying Jerusalem and Palestine... Allah willing, we will soon take what was taken from us, if not peacefully then by force." (April 13, 2018)
Holocaust "was a lie," "the Jews conspired with Hitler to create a gate to Palestine to bring the settlers," say host on official PA TV and Palestinian political analyst (April 10, 2018)
Girl's antisemitic poem on PA TV: "Jews defile Jerusalem"
A Palestinian girl recited a poem on PA TV that included antisemitic hate speech about Jews. The girl stated that Jews "defile Jerusalem and its great mosque." (Dec. 15, 2017)
PA daily op-ed: Israel is a "colonialist investment project," "Jews control the communications and media as well as the financial arteries of the large companies" (Nov. 16, 2017)
Jews are "wicked," "oppressors," and "evil" in rebroadcast of 1996 PA TV show
PA TV rebroadcast a show that defined Jews as "wicked," "oppressors," and "evil," during an interview with the Palestinian actor who played the role of one of the "evil" Jews. (Sept. 28, 30, 2017)
"With an axe, a knife, a gun, and a rifle I'll kill you... I'll cleanse my country of every Jew" - Song in Hebrew by unknown artist threatens Israelis (Sept. 1, 2017)
Fatah spokesman presents Protocols of the Elders of Zion as authentic document
A Fatah spokesman stated that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion instructs "the Zionists" to create extreme Islamic religious streams in order to cause internal disputes among the Arabs to keep the Arab regimes occupied and prevent them from dealing with important issues like "arming [themselves] against the enemy." (April 16, 2017)
Preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque: "The Jews, who are the lowliest and most cowardly of Allah's creatures" continue "torturing the prisoners... Allah, destroy all of the Jews" (May 6, 2017)
Fatah official: Jews are donkeys (March 21, 2017)
Abbas appoints antisemitic PA TV Imad Hamato host as dean of Gaza Al-Azhar schools
Abbas endorsed antisemitic hate speech against Jews when he met with and appointed antisemitic PA TV host to lead system of schools. (Oct. 25, 2016 and March 6, 2017)
PA TV: Jews stole Kim Kardashian's diamonds
An article in Israeli media on the arrest of 17 suspects in a jewelry heist noted that two suspects were reportedly Jews. This reference was embraced by PA TV's "Israeli affairs expert" who said that all Jews are "thieves." (Jan 11, 2017)