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: