Fatah’s Facebook: Glorifying terror, inciting hatred, and erasing Israel

January 1st is the date Fatah celebrates as the anniversary of its first terror attack, which it calls “Launch Day.” Palestinian Media Watch has examined how Fatah used its Facebook page to mark its 48th anniversary.

The page glorifies violence and terror as acts of heroism, and depicts a world without Israel. The Facebook page is filled with pictures of automatic rifles and slogans venerating arms. In some pictures, young children are carrying rifles.

Other pictures show maps of “Palestine” that include the PA areas as well as all of Israel. Fatah's page glorifies Saddam Hussein and memorializes terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history: a bus hijacking attack that killed 37 civilians.

In addition to being PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas is Chairman of Fatah as well.

As part of its celebrations, Fatah posted two pictures showing young children holding automatic rifles that are almost as large as the children. One picture has the words:
Another picture shows a young girl marching with a rifle, and Fatah's Facebook administrator chose to caption it as follows:
For several days, the cover picture on Fatah's Facebook profile showed a masked man holding an automatic rifle, and three Palestinian flags flying over the Temple Mount. The picture was titled “48 [years] since the Launch of Fatah.”

The name of the page is “the Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah/ The Central Page.” The description says that the profile is administered by the Enlistment and Organization Commission of Fatah, with a link to the Commission’s website: www.fatehorg.ps


The page administrator posted two pictures of Saddam Hussein. One shows him laughing with the following text below the picture:

In the second picture, Saddam Hussein is shown in uniform, holding a rifle, with the following text glorifying him:
Female terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Road terror attack in 1978 in which terrorists hijacked a bus and murdered 37 civilians, is also glorified with her picture and the words:…”On this day in 1959 Martyr (Shahida) Dalal Mughrabi was born, hero of the ‘Martyr Kamal Adwan’ mission, bride of Jaffa and the gentle energizing force of Fatah.”

The picture itself is inscribed with the words:  “All songs call to you, Dalal… the path to the homeland.”

Many pictures added by the page administrator show a map of “Palestine” that erases and replaces all of Israel:

In this picture, the Palestinian flag flies over the entire area of the state of Israel symbolizing political sovereignty. The letter "h" in the word "Fatah" is wrapped around the map of "Palestine."


In the next picture, a map painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag can be seen on the right. The map includes not only Palestinian cities, but also Israeli cities like Safed, Acre, Tiberias, Haifa, Beit Shean, Nazareth, Jaffa, Ramle, Be'er Sheva, and Jerusalem. In the upper left corner, there is a picture of terrorist Dalal Mughrabi. The next picture shows Arafat with Abu Jihad, one of the founders of Fatah who was responsible for many terrorist attacks, among them the Coastal Road attack that Dalal Mughrabi led.

The Fatah logo, which includes a grenade and crossed rifles over the map of “Palestine” that erases Israel, appears in the center of the picture, and the text reads:
The rifle is drawn in the word “Fatah” and is also depicted on the map:


Arafat waves a rifle next to a map of “Palestine,” which is part of the number 48.

The text above the picture says:
Fatah’s logo and below it:
The next picture shows Yasser Arafat, Abu Jihad and other senior Fatah officials with a map of “Palestine” in the background.

The text of the picture opens with a verse from the Quran lauding death in battle:
The next picture includes a rifle and a key next to the same map that includes all of Israel. The key symbolizes Palestinian claims of ownership to the land of the State of Israel and the claim of a “right” for residents of refugee camps to “return.”


The text accompanying a picture of a pen dripping blood says: Rifle bullets spell out the words “Fatah 48.” Next to the picture appear the words:
Another picture glorifies violence:
In the following picture, Fatah glorifies rocket launches against Israel. The text on the picture reads:
The next image again has the verse from the Quran glorifying death in battle: 
Next to the picture, the page administrator mentions a number of facts about Fatah that present murderous terror attacks as gloriously heroic. Here are a few of them:
Note: This refers to a suicide bombing at the Erez crossing point in 2004 that killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three.
Note: This refers to an attack on a bus carrying workers to the nuclear research facility in Dimona in 1988, when three people were killed.
Note: In 1978 female terrorist Dalal Mughrabi led the most deadly attack against Israel when she and other terrorists landed on the Israeli coast, hijacked a bus, and murdered 37 civilians, 12 of whom were children.
Note: Wafa Idris carried out a suicide-bombing in Jerusalem in 2002, and thus became the first female suicide terrorist of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. One was killed and 150 were wounded in her attack. Idris worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent in Ramallah. She crossed the check post into Israel wearing a Red Crescent uniform and carrying the bomb with her in the ambulance.
Note: 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich by members of the Palestinian Black September organization.
Note: This refers to a double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv’s central bus station that killed 23 people (not more than 30 as written).

This is not the first time that Fatah has glorified terrorists and terror attacks on Facebook. Palestinian Media Watch has shown that the Fatah Facebook page featured a picture of the eight terrorists who attacked the Savoy Hotel in 1975, and that the Lebanese Fatah branch’s Facebook page showed a picture of a woman dressing her son in a suicide belt.

Nor is it the first time that Fatah has glorified Dalal Mughrabi on its Facebook page. Palestinian Media Watch exposed a poem praising Dalal that appeared on the page.