Official PA news agency claims remarks by PMW director Itamar Marcus are "incitement and racism"
“The Wafa news agency is tracking incitement and racism against Palestinians and Arabs, circulated by the Israeli media…The Israeli radio station “Galei ZaHaL” (Israel Armed Forces Radio) hosted the Director of Palestine Media Watch, Itamar Marcus, on its “5:00 in the Evening” show. The show’s host, Yaron Wilensky, asked Marcus: “Why do Muslims get so angry when (others) talk about Muhammad, when there are caricatures in the other side’s (i.e., in Palestinian) newspapers that are no less problematic than the insulting film (Innocence of Muslims)? Marcus answered: “That’s right. There are very of difficult caricatures that portray Jews as beasts, any kind of a beast you can think of – a shark, a wild animal, a snake. Terrible descriptions of Jews are routine in the Palestinian press."
Click to view PMW documentation showing that the Palestinian Authority animalizes and dehumanizes Jews.
Click to view PMW documentation showing that the Palestinian Authority animalizes and dehumanizes Jews.