“Kill A Jew –

Go To Heaven”

 

A Study of the Palestinian Authority’s

Promotion of Genocide

 

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

with PMW Research Staff: Hila Ben Haim,

Dina Lisniasnsky, Dror Malelis, Ron Pichekhadze

 

Executive Summary

“It was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel against the

 Zionists and to knock on Heaven’s doors with the skulls of Zionists.”

 

The day after 21-year-old Palestinian terrorist Reem Riyashi read these words for her farewell video, she murdered four Israelis in a suicide terror attack. She, or those who wrote the statement for her, believed that her act of murdering Israelis was enough to assure her entry into Heaven.

 

·        This study will examine:

o       Why a Palestinian would believe that the murder of Israelis and/or Jews is something that Islam values and demands;

o       Whether this is being taught by fringe groups in the Palestinian Authority (PA) or represents official PA ideology.

 

·        Findings:

PMW has found that the Palestinian Authority (PA) teaches an ideology of virulent hatred of Jews and Israel that mandates the killing of Jews solely because they are Jews. The murder of Jews is presented not only as beneficial to Muslims and Arabs, but as necessary for all humankind. These findings are based on a thorough study and analysis of eight years of official PA television and PA-controlled daily newspapers. This report documents how this hate ideology has been taught consistently for years, well before the war started in September 2000, and continues even after the death of Yassir Arafat:

 

·        July 2000

“The Hour [of Resurrection] will not take place until you will fight the Jews and kill them”

Dr. Ahmed Yousuf Abu Halabiyah, member of the Palestinian Sharia [Islamic religious law] Rulings Council, and Rector of Advanced Studies, the Islamic University, PA TV, July 28, 2000

 

·        October 2000

“Kill them all... we won’t leave a single Jew here.”

Young Girl, PA TV, Oct. 22, 2000

 

·        September 2004

“The Hour [of Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. The Muslims will kill the Jews, rejoice!”

Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris, Head of Association for Memorizing the Quran, PA Ministry of Endowments & Religious Affairs, PA TV, September 10, 2004

 

·        January 2005

“…and the rock and the tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!”

Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of Al Quds Encyclopedia

PA TV, January 10, 2005


Building A Case Against Jewish Existence

 

The PA religious, political and educational leaders have systematically built a case against Jewish existence, much as a prosecutor would build a legal case in a court of law to demand a death sentence. And as their expert witness, they bring God Himself.

The PA case against the Jews has three stages:

Stage 1 defines what characterizes the Jew.

Stage 2 demonstrates how these characteristics endanger the world.

Stage 3 instructs how to fight back against the Jews.

 

Stage 1 Anti Semitism

Collective Labeling: The Jews’ nature is inherently evil

(*See appendix for overview of Universal Racism- Anti Semitism scale)

The foundation stage defines Jews and presents them as different from others, possessing inherently evil traits. Jews are said to be treacherous, corrupt, deceitful and unfaithful, as well as God’s enemies – cursed descendants of monkeys and pigs. Educators, academics and politicians distort and malign Jewish tradition as inherently evil, and link it directly to the “treacherous behavior” of which they accuse Jews today. Forgeries and fiction masquerading as history are used to document and support the libel that Judaism is inherently racist and evil. Significantly, these Jewish “attributes” and traditions are presented not as behavior that can be improved, but as the unchangeable nature of Jews.

 

Stage 2 Anti-Semitism

Creating the Threat: The Jews are an existential danger to all humanity

The second stage shows that these evil traits are not a private Jewish matter, but have ramifications for the entire world. Driven by these immutable traits and traditions, the Jews are planning and executing heinous crimes. If unchecked, these crimes constitute a mortal danger, not only to all Muslims and Arabs but to all of humanity. This threat is presented as highly significant: Wars, conflicts and internal strife are all said to be triggered by Jews. Indeed, the oppression Jews have suffered throughout history is presented as the legitimate response of nations seeking revenge because of the injury to them brought about by the Jews living among them. The “Jewish evil” represents an existential threat – a danger to all humanity, something that cannot be ignored.

 

Stage 3 Anti-Semitism

Eliminating the Threat

“The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until the Muslim kills the Jew.”

A solid prosecution has been built: Jews represent a threat to all humanity. Since this menace is a consequence of Jews’ evil nature and traditions and is unchangeable, the sole solution is that Jews must be fought, subjugated, killed and annihilated. Killing Jews is promoted as an act of self-defense and self-preservation, necessary to save Muslims, Arabs and all humanity. The PA calls as the expert witness God Himself, who is said to have sent humanity a message through his Prophet Muhammad that the killing and even the extermination of Jews is a necessary step to bring the “Hour” – world redemption through resurrection. The killing of Jews is thus absolved as an act of murder and justified as an act of self-defense. Murder of Jews is elevated from the abhorrent to the service of God and humanity. 

This three-tiered PA ideology demanding genocide is neither the strategy of a fringe PA sect, nor the haphazard ramblings of private individuals behind closed doors. Rather, the hatred of Jews is promoted by the religious, political and academic elites, and taught through cultural, educational, religious and even entertainment frameworks, all of which are under the control and direction of the PA political leadership.

Sixty years after the end of the Holocaust, it is chilling that PA society is openly, repeatedly and unabashedly echoing many of the messages that Nazi Germany systematically used to justify the need for the genocide of Jews.

 


Stage 1 Anti Semitism

Collective Labeling:

·        The Jews’ nature is inherently evil

Collectively labeling or defaming an ethnic group’s nature as inferior is the first stage of racism and anti-Semitism. The PA teaches that the Jewish nature has numerous malevolent, immoral and malicious character traits. To make these claims convincing, the PA presents through its controlled media a steady stream of religious figures, academics, political leaders, and specialists to indicate that expert authorities from all fields corroborate this assertion of an evil Jewish nature.

 

·        Religious Figures:

The following teachings by PA religious leaders were all broadcast on official PA TV:

Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Najem

“Allah described them [Jews] in His Book, characterized by conceit, pride, arrogance, rampage, disloyalty and treachery… deceit and cunning…”

PA TV, November 1, 2002

Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris

“Every time Muhammad came back from his raids, he would find treachery and betrayal by the Jews of Medina, since treachery and betrayal are two character traits of the Jews’ nature... that their descendants inherited from their ancestors until today."

PA TV, June 4, 2004

Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Najem

“The Jews are Jews, and we are forbidden to forget their character traits even for a moment, even for a blink of an eye.”

PA TV, December 6, 2002

 

·        Academic Authorities

A PA psychologist explains on PA TV that the Jewish infant “nurses hatred”:

Psychologist Khader Abas

“Very important factors influenced the Jewish personality, among them: The religious-legend idea, this is foremost, and children’s upbringing. From the moment the child is born, he nurses hatred against others, nurses seclusion, nurses superiority…”

PA TV, April 14, 2002

A PA lecturer in the philosophy of education likewise presents the image of Jewish children nursing hatred in the “milk.”

Dr. Muhammad Abu Daf

“I truly do not see the state of the Israeli society as a state of confusion, but rather a natural result of an education that was maintained by fundamentalist Jewish upbringing to violence, hostility and racism... The sayings of the leaders of the Hebrew state, and the actions of the soldiers are a natural behavior, acquired by the Jewish upbringing... Thus distorting the figure of the Arabs and Muslims, the Jewish child nurses hatred with [mother’s] milk ... we want a generation that recognizes and understands the structure of the Jewish personality.”

PA TV, October 12, 2003

·        Children

PA children are taught disdain of Jews through children’s entertainment programs, in which Jews are stigmatized with the same hateful labels. Echoing the religious teaching that Jews are “deceitful and cunning,” a program with a charming talking puppet teaches preschoolers: “You can’t trust the Jews:”

Tarabisho [Talking puppet]

“I want to send a message to the children and our viewers:

 “Don’t stay in dangerous places, like places under bombardment. Allow the rescue teams and civil defense and security personnel to perform their duty.”

Child in studio

“All of us join Tarabisho, and say to everyone: Watch out! You can’t trust the Jews, because they can strike us suddenly at any moment.”

PA TV, August 23, 2004

 

·        Jews’ “treachery and disloyalty” taught in PA schools

This presentation of Jews as having inherently negative character traits was taught for years in the PA curriculum.

“One must beware of the Jews, for they are  treacherous and disloyal.”

Islamic Education for Ninth Grade, page 79

“Treachery and disloyalty are character traits of the Jews and therefore one should beware of them.”

Islamic Education for Ninth Grade, page 87

These books were based on Jordanian schoolbooks. Though the PA was notified of this content in 1999, it refused an American offer at that time to fund the reprinting of these books without this and other anti-Jewish content.

 

·        Image of Jews as inherently negative in popular culture

The depiction of Jews as possessors of inherently negative traits also appears in popular entertainment, such as crossword puzzles  in daily newspapers.           

One example: “Crossword Puzzle Clue: ‘Jewish character trait spelled backwards:’

“Solution: ’Treachery.’”

Al Quds, December 20, 2000

·        Jews Cursed by God

PA religious leaders confer on Jews the ultimate iniquity, that Jews are said to be the cursed enemy of God. The evil nature of the Jews, therefore, is not merely the conclusion of humankind, it is said to be God’s conclusion. As the enemy of God, the Jews are, of course, the enemy of Muslims.

Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi,

“These Jews who angered Allah and whom He cursed through the Prophets...”

PA TV, September 21, 2001

Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Najem

“Praise unto Allah, Who cursed our enemies; curse upon curse up to Judgment Day. And He has cursed them as well through the words of His prophets and emissaries...”

PA TV, November 1, 2002

Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris

“Praise Allah, Who cursed the non-believers among the People of the Book...”

PA TV, June 4, 2004

 

·        Portrayal of Jews as Animals

In three instances (Surahs 2, 5 and 7), the Koran tells of Muhammad turning people into monkeys and/or pigs: “Those (Jews) who incurred the curse of Allah and his Wrath, and those of whom (some) He transformed into monkeys and swine.” (Surah 5:60)  Another section of the Koran compares the Jews to donkeys. PA leaders repeatedly dehumanize Jews by applying these animal references to Jews:

Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Najem

“... for which Allah transformed them to monkeys and pigs...“

PA TV, November 1, 2002

Dr. Mahmoud Mustafah Najem

“Praise be to Allah, who has cursed [the Jews], the brothers of monkeys and pigs.”

PA TV, December 6, 2002

Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi

“We are waging this cruel war with the brothers of the monkeys and pigs, the Jews and the sons of Zion.”

PA TV, September 12, 2004

Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi

“For Allah was angry and called them once monkeys, pigs and donkeys…”

PA TV, March 30, 2001

·        PA schoolbooks:

PA educators have chosen to include this donkey reference from the Koran in the new PA schoolbooks:

“...Those [Jews] who were charged with the Torah, but did not observe it, are like a donkey carrying books...”

Reading the Koran, Surat al-Jum’a, Sixth Grade, p. 20

This depiction by PA leaders of Jews as animals is reflected in popular behavior and language. At one anti-Israel march, PA demonstrators wrapped a donkey in a Jewish prayer shawl, demonstrating the imagery they had been taught of donkeys as Jews.

 

·        PA Daily Newspapers:

Writers have used this animal imagery to slur Jews, as illustrated by this editorial in the official PA daily:

 “In the past the young Jerusalem [Arab] girls were captive, and exposed to acts of horror by the sons of the monkeys and pigs...”

Al Hayat Al Jadida, June 5, 2004

 

·        PA Children:

Even very young Palestinian children have incorporated this language into their image of Jews. A 10-year-old girl on PA TV introduced her message to Jews with the following racial slur:

“My name is Ala. I am from Rafah, [I am]10 years old. Let the pigs and monkeys know and their leaders Sharon and Bush...”

PA TV, September 29, 2003

 

As early as 1998 Jews were already being called Devil and Satan:

 

Abdul Muiz Al Satar, Teacher of Religion

“They [Jews] are the descendants of the Devil and the descendants of the Satan.”

PA TV, December 17, 1998

 

Complementing the verbal depiction of Jews as animals and Satan are visual demonization and dehumanization in the PA media. Note that long before the terror war, the PA media was already publishing these odious visual images of Jews. In 1999, approaching the end of the century, the cartoon of the official PA daily captioned the sub-human dwarf Jew as “the disease of the century.”

 

Al-Ayyam, March 27, 2004 Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 28, 1999
Al-Quds March 7, 2004
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 31, 2004
Al-Ayaam, Feb. 27, 2004
Al-Ayyam, Apr. 5, 2003

This dehumanization of Jews plays a role in preparing PA society to be willing to kill Jews (see Stage 3 below.) Animals are clearly inferior to humans, and in many societies have no rights, are used for experiments and routinely hunted.

 

·        Maligning Jewish Tradition

An important component of the PA indoctrination to see Jews as evil is to present Judaism as both an illegitimate religion and one that embraces hateful teachings. Both of these defamations have been taught for years in the PA. These hate teachings are echoed by children.

PA academic and religious leaders publicly deny the existence of the Jewish nation. Moreover, they argue that even as a religion Judaism is not legitimate, since the original Hebrew Bible was distorted by the Jews.

 

Jirar Al Kidwa, Head of PA Public Library

“Judaism is not a religion in the full sense of the word, and is not a nationality at all. Where does this religion come from? The source of Judaism is the Mosaic Law – Moses introduced the Mosaic Law, which is the continuity of the Islam of Abraham. The Mosaic Law is a religion, which seems to be an Islamic religion, and several studies which were published have found in the Torah, when translated correctly, texts which prove that it is the continuation of Islam. [The Jews] practice ritual customs that are not mentioned in the original Torah... We know of two sects which maintain the ancient customs – the Samaritans in Nablus... And there is a sect in Jerusalem named Neturei Karta.”

PA TV, November 3, 1998

 

The Neturei Karta, whom the PA present as authentic Jews, are a tiny extremist anti-Israel sect, who deny Israel’s right to exist based on their interpretation of Judaism. The Neturei Karta have actively supported the PA in its fight against Israel..

 

Abdul Muiz Al Satar, Teacher of Religion

“They [the Jews] falsified Allah’s words, and changed His religion and His laws. They were the oppressors. This is a revolt against Allah and His path... In the [genuine] Hebrew Bible that was revealed by Allah and his path... the genuine Hebrew Bible, that was revealed by Allah, possess guidance and light, justice and virtue, but the Jews changed it in the past, and change it today, seriously. In today’s Hebrew Bible there is no right guidance nor light.”

PA TV, December 17, 1998

 

·        PA children incorporate delegitimization of Judaism into their worldview:

Teenage Girl

“They falsely claim that the Hebrew Bible is their religion, but we know that they falsified the Hebrew Bible and set another constitution other than the divine one, which was revealed in the Hebrew Bible and they twisted it as they wished.”

PA TV, June 23, 2002

 

·        The Holiday of Passover: A Celebration of Murder and Theft

Beyond the general attacks on the Hebrew Bible’s legitimacy, the PA maligns specific traditions as well. The following hateful perversion of the Jewish holiday of Passover in the official PA daily is just one example of the PA’s defamation of Jewish traditions:

“The Jews until today keep the rituals of Passover... from which they derive their attitude to foreigners…  [Let us] understand these religious rituals and their significance in order to understand the racist behavior of the Israelis against the Arabs. This holiday has various meanings… Murdering foreigners is a Godly virtue that should be emulated… There is nothing in history more horrible than the theft, the greatest crime in history, that the Jews did the night of their Exodus [from Egypt]… In other words, robbing others is not only permitted, it is considered holy. Especially since this thievery was done under the direct command of God, the God of the Jews.”

Al Hayaa, April 15, 2001

 

Jewish religious symbols are likewise debased. While blaming Israel for the drug problem in the PA, the official PA daily newspaper chose to reprint a cartoon originally from Al Watan (Kuwait) of a Jewish religious symbol, the Menorah, with the seven flames replaced by seven syringes.

 

Text: “The Israeli drug smuggling network”

Al Hayat Al Jadida, April 17, 2000

 

·        The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

 The PA not only distorts authentic Jewish traditions, it presents fictitious libels as actual Jewish documents, and thereby reinforces the case that Jewish tradition is evil. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a text exposed many years ago as a fraud perpetrated by Czarist intelligence agents, is routinely treated by the PA as an authentic Jewish plan for world domination.

A senior PA academic, speaking on television to the Chairman of the PA Public Library, explained that Israel was founded on the Protocols:

Dr. Riad Al Astal

“In these circumstances [of European nationalism] what is known as the Zionist Renaissance grew and the seeds of what is called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion appeared at the end of the 18th century [sic]. They are the protocols that were presented in Basel [First Zionist Congress, 1897].”

PA TV, December 28, 2003

 

An official PA reference work cites the Protocols under the title, The Jewish Danger:

“The 65th issue of The Shahids (Martyrs) was recently published by the Political Guidance of the Border Patrol. The issue includes many important political, economic and military matters… In addition, there is a chapter about a research paper, entitled The Jewish Danger: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

Al Hayat Al Jadida, December 1, 2003

 

·        Israel’s Humanitarian acts are motivated by sinister forces

The portrayal of Israelis and Jews as inherently evil is so important to the PA that their officials go to great lengths to reinterpret events that contradict this image of the evil Jew, often explaining that humanitarian acts by Israel are actually motivated by sinister forces. Israel’s release of 400 Arab terrorists in exchange for one kidnapped Israeli, for example, is thus said to be linked to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

 

Ahmad Nasser, Secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council

"We see that Israel is trying to delude the world, the Arabs and the Palestinians psychologically - that one Israeli will be exchanged for a thousand Palestinians. Israel is interested in planting among the Palestinian, the Arab or the world the concept of value – the value of a Jew and the value of an Arab.”

 

Interviewer: "This concept appears in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that they [Jews] are superior and the rest are inferior.”

PA TV, February 6, 2004

 

The ultimate and irrefutable stamp of authority in a religious society, such as the PA, is placed on this indictment of Jews’ evil nature. The Prophet Muhammad himself is said to have sounded the alarm:

Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Najem

“He [Muhammad] warned us about the Jews, and about the Jews’ evil and the Jews’ deceit... He clarified the character of the Jew... so we would beware of them at every moment and at all times.”

PA TV, February 8, 2002


Stage 2 Anti Semitism

Creating the Threat:

·        The Jews are an existential danger to all humanity

Because the Jews are inherently evil and their traditions hateful and murderous, the Jews are said to be planning and executing horrific crimes. These crimes are presented as endangering all humanity, not just Muslims and Arabs. Indeed, Jews are said to be responsible for all wars, conflicts, financial crises and civil strife.

Zionism was a European Plot to be rid of the “Burden” of Jews:

Senior PA academics present Jews as a threat to a stable society. A history lecturer explained that Zionism was a European plot to be rid of the Jews, because Jews were such a detriment to European society:

Riad Al Astal, talking to Jirar Al Kidwa, Chairman of PA Public Library, and Issam Sissalem, senior history professor, about Britain’s support of Zionism:

Britain’s first aim was to be rid of the Jews, who were known to provoke disputes and disturbances and financial crises in Germany, France and other European states.”  PA TV, December 28, 2003

 

This depiction of Zionism as a European defense plan to be rid of the “burden” of the Jews has been taught as history in the PA for years. In 1998, the official PA daily presented an odious analogy comparing Hitler to British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, who declared in Britain’s name support for the Jews’ right to re-establish a national home:

“The difference between Hitler and Balfour was simple: the former [Hitler] did not have colonies to send the Jews, so he destroyed them, whereas Balfour... [turned] Palestine into one of his colonies and sent Jews there.  Balfour is Hitler with colonies, while Hitler is Balfour without colonies.  They both wanted to get rid of the Jews... Zionism was crucial to the defense of the West’s interests in the region, [by] ridding Europe of the burden of her Jews…”

Al Hayat Al Jadida, June 12, 1998

 

PA Children have accepted and embraced this teaching, expressing that “countries of the world took part” in the creation of Israel as an act of self-defense to save themselves from the “source of evil.”

Majda [teenager]

“Regarding the problem of the Jewish presence, you’d agree that the Jewish presence in the land of ’Palestine’ was nothing but the liberation of all the countries of the world from the source of evil. That evil, which is widespread among the Sons of Zion... The countries of the world took part in [creating] the Jewish presence beside us.”

PA TV, June 23, 2002

 

·        Jews Control World Media:

The Jews are said to be able to hide their evil from most of the world due to their “repulsive control over the world media...”:

“The Jews were the object of hatred and contempt everywhere, due to their control over most of the economic resources …. The most prominent example for this is the play The Merchant of Venice in which Shylock, the merchant, portrays the image of the greedy, crafty Jew who is evil and loathsome... If so, how did the Jews succeed in brainwashing the American and European public opinion to change the image [of the Jew] to an understanding, brave, bright, diligent and creative person, whom the world looks up to?  There is no escape from saying that the success of the Jews was not incidental but rather a result of long years of planning and the investment of enormous efforts in order to achieve the repulsive control over the world media…”

Al Hayat Al Jadida, February 7, 1998

 

Where did the Jews learn the necessity of controlling the media? From The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, explains the PA daily:

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion did not ignore the importance of using propaganda to promote the Zionist goals. In the second protocol is written: ’Through the newspapers we will have the means to propel and to influence.’

 In the twelfth protocol: "Our governments will hold the reins of most of the newspapers, and through this plan we will possess the primary power to turn to public opinion.”

Al Hayat Al Jadida, January 25, 2001

 

·        Jews responsible for all catastrophes on earth:

Religious leaders teach that Jews are responsible for all catastrophes:

 

Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris

“Why did Allah change the direction of prayer from Al Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] to Al Haram Mosque [in Mecca]? The reason is those [Jews] who are the cause of all catastrophes on earth. The reason for it is those that spit their poisons at the international and regional level - and more so at the domestic level. Those who are the reason for every disaster of the world... These are the Jews, Allah’s curse be upon them.”

PA TV, September 24, 2004

 

·        Murder is part of Jewish nature and religion:

Jews are said to be committing murder because it is part of their nature:

Dr. Mahmoud Mustafa Najem

“It is not unusual for the Jews, nor uncharacteristic of their traits, or their ancestry, or their wild behavior, what they are doing … slaughter after slaughter, invasion after invasion this has been the custom of the Jews throughout the generations and the ages.”

PA TV, December 6, 2002

Not only are Jews said to be a threat, but the Jewish religion is said to promote murder of Arabs:

A PA cabinet minister thus maligned the Jewish religion on PA TV:

Abd Al Aziz Shahin, PA Minister of Supplies

“Since the 19th century the Zionist mind has been built upon the killing of the Arab people.... in their religious schools, where they learn that they are the chosen people of God and we are the others, we are considered the stage between the Jew and the monkey. This is a basis of the Jewish religion, and from this comes the killing of the Arab people in Palestine.”

PA TV, December 12, 2002

 

Children are likewise taught to see Judaism as a racist, murder-promoting religion. Chairman of the PA public library, Dr. Jirar al Kidwa, teaches young students on an educational TV broadcast that the Talmud and the Hebrew Bible promote the murder of non-Jews:

 

Dr. Jirar Al Kidwa

“The commandments of their Hebrew Bible or their Talmud say that we are Goyim, that is, non-Jews; [they] view all non-Jews as barbarians or as their servants, void of any human rights, and [one] may destroy them and may kill them.”

PA TV, March 2, 2001

 

Children are likewise taught through hate propaganda, such as this staged video clip broadcast hundreds of time on PA TV, to see Israeli-Jewish soldiers, all wearing religious skull caps, as cold blooded murderers of children.

·        PA children: Judaism teaches the murder of Arabs:

PA children internalize these visual and verbal hate messages and affirm that Judaism is life threatening for them as Arabs:

 

Child

“[Israeli soldiers’] beliefs were formed by the Hebrew Bible, their fanatic Zionist leaders and the other fanatic organizations... that made them make hideous decisions against the Palestinians and even against the Arabs. They fight the Arabs, not only Palestinians, by killing Palestinians, expelling Palestinians and expelling Arabs. All this is permitted according to their dictionary, their constitution and their religion....”

PA TV, June 23, 2002

 

·        PA Entertainment: Judaism promotes extermination of Palestinians

The PA also uses cultural expression and entertainment media to promote these hate messages. One particularly hateful full-length movie, depicting Jews planning the extermination of Palestinians, was broadcast numerous times over several years on PA TV. The following are two scenes from the movie Garden of Death. (Note: the English translations of this film are taken verbatim from the PA TV English subtitles):

 

Rabbi’s Prayer: “Palestinians have no place on this land. Never! If we ever keep one of them alive, it would be as if we had done nothing. May God exterminate all Palestinians.

 

Woman talking to Rabbi:

“Palestinians should leave this land since it’s not theirs. Just like you [Rabbi] I wished God to exterminate all of them, but this didn’t happen, and to do that, we have to throw them out of this land. We won’t let them back, even in dreams. We have to wipe [out] all of their traces as if they didn’t exist before... We did this before, so, we can do it now.”

PA TV, first broadcast Feb. 2 2001, and most recently in 2004

 

·        Jews responsible for the Second World War, the Holocaust and the Tsunami

Going from general libels to the specific, the PA accuses Jews of responsibility for everything from the Second World War to the Holocaust, and even the recent Tsunami tragedy that left at least 150,000 dead in Asia. Just as the PA fabricates Jewish traditions and sources, it also fabricates quotes and attributes them to Jewish leaders who are said to be part of the conspiracy to rule the world. In these fictitious statements, Jewish leaders accept responsibility for causing the Second World War, in order to further the Zionist cause:

“Rabbi Rabinovitch said in his speech in the International Rabbinical Committee in Budapest in 1952: ‘… You remember our propaganda campaign and our success that we attained in 1930, and the results were arousing hostilities between America and Germany, and this campaign caused the start of WWII.’”

Al Hayat Al Jadida, January 31, 2000

 

·        Jews are blamed for murdering other Jews in the Holocaust:

Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi

“Another example of their malicious deeds is the so-called ’Holocaust,’ the slaughter of Jews by Nazis. According to research texts and researchers, this crime was committed against certain Jews and was planned as policy by the Jewish leaders.”

PA TV, September 21, 2001

 

At other times, the official Palestinian media will deny the Holocaust.

 

Issam Sissalem

“Lies surfaced about Jews being murdered here and there and the Holocaust. And, of course, these are all lies and unfounded claims. No Dachau, no Auschwitz; these were disinfection sites...”

PA TV, November 29, 2000

 

Ismail Al Fakaw, discussing a book called “The Holocaust Industry”

“[The Holocaust] was a real event that occurred from 1939 to 1945. However, it did not just affect the Jews in Europe, but also other nations including the Poles, the Hungarians, the Russians - as you remember, 20 million Russians were killed and Germans, and Gypsies. They were annihilated and killed as a result of the war, and not due to a prior plan… It is possibly true that Hitler planned the extermination of disabled Germans. It is likely that these things are true, I don’t know… This is the historical truth: the true Nazi Holocaust. I apologize for using the word “Holocaust”. This is a word that they try to attach only to the Jews who were killed, but I use this expression in the human sense. It can also be used to refer to the Palestinians and the suffering that the Israelis [have caused] them...”

PA TV, May 27, 2003

 

·        Holocaust denial in popular culture

 

Holocaust denial has been expressed even in a crossword puzzle in the official PA daily:

“Crossword Puzzle Clue: ‘The Jewish center for eternalizing the Holocaust and the lies.’

“Solution: ’Yad Vashem.’” (Israel’s Holocaust memorial center)

Al-Hayat Al Jadida, February 18, 1999

 

·        Children’s musical broadcast: Jews made ovens for burning Palestinians

A PA TV musical for children included the ultimate abuse of the Holocaust, teaching children that the Jews didn’t suffer a Holocaust, but rather made ovens to burn Palestinians: