Palestinian Authority libel: Talmud says non-Jews are “pigs in the form of humans to serve the Jews”
- Israelis/Jews are "the enemy of humanity, not [only] of the Palestinian people" – Palestinian academic
- Israelis/Jews are "pigs and donkeys"
The Palestinian Authority's brainwashing of its people is ongoing and effective. Palestinian Media Watch regularly documents that ordinary Palestinians echo the antisemitic and Nazi-like statements by PA leaders and officials. The PA portrays Jews as being "arrogant by nature," and planning to "subjugate the entire world." Palestinian citizens adopt and repeat these teachings.
Accordingly, an anti-Israeli activist spread the libel that the Jewish Talmud teaches that non-Jews are "pigs in the form of humans [created] to serve the Jews":
Anti-Israeli activist in the Jordan Valley Ayman Ghraib: "The colonialism began in the [Jewish] religious schools where the colonialists (i.e., Jews) were educated to hate the Arabs and Palestinians and everything that is not Jewish. We have obtained booklets that contain an exact quote from the Talmudic text - that non-Jews are pigs that God created in the form of humans to serve the Jews… In their religious books it is written that Allah created this [olive] tree for the Jews… and if they cannot enjoy its fruits, they should burn it."
[Official PA TV, Crops, April 6, 2026]
The Talmud contains no such statement about non-Jews being pigs.
Even as Palestinians falsely accuse Jews of dehumanizing non-Jews, the PA itself portrays Jews as sub-human. In the words of PA Chairman Abbas' advisor, Jews are "grazing herds of humanoids… apes and pigs." Recently, a Palestinian in Lebanon expressed a similar view, saying Jews are "pigs and donkeys":
Lebanese singer and actor Abd Asqoul: "The enemy [Israel] is very stupid. He does not understand that it is impossible, regardless of what will be, there is something that lives inside us [Palestinians]... But this pig is not just a pig, he is a donkey who does not understand. He thought my identity is a few papers and flour, and it escaped him that I am from the seed of heroes... My identity is land and rock and the sand of the beaches with shells and the blue color in their waters, from Rosh Hanikra (i.e., on Israel's northern border) to proud Umm Al-Rashrash (i.e., Eilat, Israel's southern border)."
[Official PA TV, The Creativity of the Refugee Camp, Jan. 20, 2026]
PA Antisemitism also portrays Jews as the "enemy of humanity." A Palestinian academic and former PA deputy minister stressed this recently, specifying that Jews are not only the "enemy" of Palestinians, but of all "humanity":
Bethlehem University political science lecturer and former PA Deputy Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Sa'id Yaqin: "Jerusalem… is also the strongest symbol in this conflict, which is being waged with this enemy (i.e., Israel). This is the enemy of humanity and not of the Palestinian people."
[Official PA TV, March 14, 2026]
Israel closed the Temple Mount due to security concerns of Iranian rocket fire during the American-Israeli war against Iran. The ban on public gatherings at holy sites and elsewhere applied to all sites and all religions.