"Netanyahu and his gang" are "latest version of fascism and Nazism" – top PA official
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: "Shame on the Palestinian who contributes to perpetuating this [Hamas-Fatah] rift or who is a partner to those who don't want a [Palestinian] state to be established. Today there is one entity in the world that is not interested in this, and it is the latest version of fascism and Nazism – [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu and his gang...
We could not hold this marathon in 2024 and 2025… because we could not leave the isolated areas, and the death camps that the grandchildren of the Holocaust victims copied to use against the Palestinians in Palestine... All the sports facilities in the Gaza Strip were attacked (i.e., during Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel). 85 percent of them were completely destroyed. They used the stadium like the Nazi death camps… They [Israelis] now constitute a distorted version of the fascism and Nazism."
[PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Facebook page, May 4, 2026]
Jibril Rajoub also serves as Head of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association, Chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee, and Chairman of the Palestinian Scout Association (PSA).
The Jerusalem Marathon was not held in 2024 and 2025 because of security limitations due to Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel