What led 16-year-old boy to murder a Jew? A 22-year-old’s call for “slaughter”?

• 22-year-old Ahed Tamimi: “We will slaughter you and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a picnic. We will drink your blood and eat your skulls. Go on, we’re waiting for you”

With almost 100,000 followers, the Instagram profile of Palestinian released prisoner Ahed Tamimi was a model platform to spread hate, call for terror, and incite to murder Jews.

Who knows if 16-year-old Muhammad Omar Al-Faroukh who yesterday murdered 20-year-old Sgt. Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin by stabbing her to death in East Jerusalem was one of Tamimi’s inspired followers?

Last week, 22-year-old Tamimi - who has served time in Israel for assault, incitement to terror, stabbings, and suicide bombings – wrote to Israelis/Jews in Hebrew and Arabic on her Instagram story, pledging to “slaughter you” in a way that would make “what Hitler did to you” seem like “a picnic”:

Tamimi’s post included Arabic text (above left) and a translation into Hebrew with mistakes; the following is PMW’s translation of the Arabic text. On the right is a picture of her arrest. [N12 (Israel), Nov. 6, 2023]

Posted text: “Our message to the settler herds: We are waiting for you in every West Bank city, from Hebron to Jenin. We will slaughter you and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a picnic. We will drink your blood and eat your skulls. Go on, we’re waiting for you.”

[Ahed Tamimi, Instagram, Oct. 29, 2023]

Whether terrorist murderer Al-Faroukh saw Tamimi’s story or not is immaterial, because he would not have needed her incitement for inspiration. Even before the current war between Hamas in Gaza and Israel, the PA and Fatah as policy has encouraged terror against Israel, glorified terrorists, and incited to murder Jews/Israelis.

Now during the month-long war, the PA and Fatah’s direct calls for murder of Jews/Israelis have been more explicit and more frequent. Al-Faroukh could have been inspired in school where he might have been taught to yell “blow up the Zionist’s head.” He could have read Fatah’s demand to “all those who have a weapon” to mobilize. Al-Faroukh may have seen Fatah’s Student Movement’s announcement, calling on Allah to “count them [Jews] and kill them one by one.” Or he could have been to a mosque where the preacher followed the PA’s instructions and preached that the extermination of Jews is an Islamic imperative.

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that other teens have acted on the PA’s brainwashing and sought “Martyrdom-death” by attacking and attempting to kill Israelis.

Tamimi called for slaughter of Jews 3 weeks into Hamas’ terror war on Israel:

Hamas war on Israel October 2023 - At least 1,200 Israelis, including over 1,000 civilians, were murdered and over 4,800 wounded, in addition to approximately 244 who were abducted into the Gaza Strip (including 110 later released or liberated and at least 26 later killed), in a Hamas terror war that began when approximately 3,000 Hamas terrorists broke through Israel's security fence at the Gaza Strip border and launched a surprise attack, taking control of several Israeli towns and attacking a music festival on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which fell on the Sabbath, Oct. 7, 2023. During the massacre the terrorists tortured, raped, shot, beheaded, and burned their victims alive, murdering entire families and leaving at least 21 children without parents. Hamas terrorists also fired at least 5,000 rockets at Israeli population centers. In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords to counter the Hamas terror threat. Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon joined Hamas' terror war starting from the following day, attacking Israel from the north. Occasional rocket launches and shootings continued from Lebanon throughout the war. A ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal began on Nov. 24, 2023, in which Israel agreed to release 150 terrorist prisoners, pause drone surveillance in the Gaza Strip, and allow movement between the northern and southern Gaza Strip, in return for 50 Israeli female and child hostages held by Hamas. The deal was subsequently extended with additional releases, until Hamas violated the agreement and resumed attacking on Dec. 1, 2023.

Ahed Tamimi – Female Palestinian teenager who assaulted Israeli soldiers on Dec. 15, 2017, and promoted suicide bombings in a filmed message immediately afterwards. After serving 8 months in prison, she met with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on July 29, 2018, who called her "a role model for the Palestinian struggle." Tamimi was arrested again on Nov. 6, 2023, after writing the following incitement on her Instagram Story on Oct. 29, 2023, during Hamas' terror war on Israel: "Our message to the settler herds... We will slaughter you and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a picnic. We will drink your blood and eat your skulls. Go on, we’re waiting for you."

Muhammad Omar Al-Faroukh – 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist from Jerusalem who stabbed and murdered Israeli border policewoman Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, 20, and wounded another border policeman at a police station near Herod’s Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City on Nov. 6, 2023. Israeli forces shot and killed Al-Faroukh, thereby ending his attack.