World literature proves Jews are bad and “traitors” – PA columnist

In blatant Antisemitism, Hassan Hmeid portrays Jews as inherently evil and treacherous.

Columnist of the official PA daily Hassan Hmeid: "There were groups of Jews who had things that made people feel—people in Europe or Czarist Russia or in Iran or India or Africa or all over the world, or in Austria… They said [about the Jews]: 'This is bad and undesirable behavior, and it needs to be dealt with.' When you read what was written in those days—I'm talking about the previous centuries, from the Middle Ages to what they call the Enlightenment—there's very clear [Jewish] behavior. If you read [the literature of] the Americans, for example Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn, anyone he wants to curse he describes as a Jew. With the Russians, [writer Ivan] Turgenev… he always says that someone in the camp was ‘'a traitor and a Jew.'' If you move to the subject of property, you'll see ugly things… We have many examples… of assassinations of people on the international stage who supported the Palestinians. People who said that what is happening now is impossible [to tolerate]. All these people—the artists and intellectuals, the students and lecturers who spoke about genocide—they are all in danger of assassination [by the Jews]."

[Official PA TV, From the Capitals, Aug. 11, 2026]

Hmeid is claiming that Jews are described as bad in literature because that's what they truly are and that Jews can eliminate or remove from power whomever they want all over the world.