PA antisemitic libel: “Rabbi said ‘kill children and women to enter Paradise’”
- PA antisemitic libels transform murder of Israelis/Jews into self-defense
- PA libel: Rabbi said “to enter Paradise you need to kill [Palestinian] children and women”
- Fatah official libels Israeli Jews: The Jewish state rules according to laws of killing, rabbis instruct to kill anyone who is not Jewish
Preacher calls for genocide of the “thieving Jews”: “Allah, kill them one by one”
Official PA TV recently broadcast yet another Muslim preacher calling for the genocide of the “thieving Jews”, asking Allah to "kill them one by one”:
Unnamed preacher: “O Allah, hand of power and might, support the Jihad fighters in the Gaza Strip, and grant them a decisive victory…
O Allah, strike the thieving Jews, O Master of the Universe. Allah, count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one of them. O Allah, divide them and scatter them in every direction, divide them and scatter them in every direction.”
[Official PA TV, Aug. 9, 2024]
Why would any sensible Palestinian follow such a call?
Because the Palestinian Authority and its ruling party Fatah continuously demonize Jews and Israelis! This antisemitic demonization turns the killing of Israelis into self-defense, and make the calls to murder Jews such as the one above legitimate.
For example, a PA TV commentator recently falsely claimed that Israeli rabbis have instructed soldiers to “kill” Palestinian “children and women” in order to “enter Paradise”:
Official PA TV political commentator Mahmoud Khalouf: “There has been incitement against the Palestinians… when rabbis issued religious rulings that encouraged [Israeli] soldiers in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere to massacre Palestinians. One of the rabbis when he would meet with soldiers in 2014 would say: ‘If you want to enter Paradise you need to kill children and women. This will bring you closer to Paradise.’”
[Official PA TV, Aug. 4, 2024]
This is a classic example of projection as it is the PA who teaches that terrorists who died while murdering Israelis and Jews are “Martyrs” for Allah and they go to Paradise where they marry 72 virgins.
Similarly, a Fatah official claimed that Israel is ruled according to “laws of killing” instructing to murder “whoever is not Jewish,”and that rabbis in particular teach to kill “infants, mothers, and children”:
Fatah Revolutionary Council member Younes Amr: “Israel has shown its true face: That it is a Jewish state that rules itself and rules others in a legal manner according to the secret system of laws, the laws of killing: Whoever is not Jewish needs to be killed. Especially according to the instructions of the rabbis who order to kill infants and their mothers, and children in general.”
[Official PA TV, Jan. 8, 2024]
Palestinian Media Watch has exposed this antisemitic demonization of Israelis and Jews for more than two decades. Recently a regular columnist of the official PA daily referred to Israeli PM Netanyahu and his cabinet as “vampires… who drink the blood of Palestinian children,” and who “have yet to satiate their thirst.” Earlier this year, the PA libeled Israel, claiming it is poisoning wells, murdering prisoners, and stealing body parts.
Neither Judaism nor the State of Israel call to kill non-Jews, and rabbis have not given such orders.
Younes Amr is the former President of Al-Quds Open University.