PA Holocaust Denial
Written and Compiled by Itamar Marcus

Abuse of the Holocaust, including Holocaust denial, is one aspect of the broad defamation of Jews and Israelis that is common in the Palestinian Authority.

The Holocaust has been defined in the official PA daily as a money-making "hen laying golden eggs" for Jews. The PA lauds Holocaust deniers, and the new PA Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, chose Holocaust denial for his doctoral thesis. The following examples have been chosen from sources over a number of years, to reflect the scope and history of the phenomenon.

List of Bulletins:

Zionists Participated in Holocaust for Political Gain

The Palestinian Authority alternates between Holocaust denial and Holocaust memory abuse. This week the official PA daily proposed the libel that Zionist leaders participated in the Holocaust for two purposesl; to eliminate Jewish opposition to Zionism, and to force Jews to flee from Europe and go to the British Mandate of Palestine.

The following is from an article in the PA daily

"...If coming back to the suffering and tribulations (caused) by the Nazis, we would read hair-raising things about the entanglement of the Zionist leaders in the 'sacrifice' of many Jews in order to kill two birds with one stone: to be rid of those who disagreed with them [meaning Jews opposed to Zionism] on the one hand and, on the other, to push all the Jews to immigrate to Palestine, since Europe had become an unbearable Hell...

"I would like to say that, based on the above, the Jewish - or more accurately Zionist - willingness to sacrifice Jews for the above mentioned cause is a known historical tradition."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 24, 2003]

PA Holocaust History Abuse

Palestinian Authority Television this week taught the following about World War II:

  1. The Nazis did not specifically plan the killing of Jews
  2. Jews, Germans, Gypsies, and Poles were all killed in World War II, as happens in war
  3. If Hitler planned any extermination, it was of disabled Germans
  4. The term 'Holocaust' in its human sense refers to experiences of the Palestinians and the Gypsies
  5. The 'Holocaust industry' is a financial scheme of the Zionist leadership that has generated billions of dollars in profits

The following is the PA TV interview with Ismail Al-Bakawi, translator of the book, The Fundamentalism of the Jews in Israel. Al-Bakawi is 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. The Palestinians also have their own private Holocaust, and this is also true of the Gypsies, etc.

"What the Zionist leadership in general and the Americans in particular have tried [to do] is to turn this truly tragic historical event into an industrial enterprise, an enterprise that will bring them a lot of capital, a fortune of wealth. For example, they started in Germany in the 1950s with what they called 'reparations' and suddenly, in the second half of the 1990s they turned, after Germany and Austria, they turned to Switzerland and began to invent their lies, according to which, the Swiss bought the gold fillings of the Jewish victims that the Nazis had taken from the teeth [of the Jews]... The Holocaust enterprise forced the Swiss government to approve [the sum of] one billion and 250 million dollars... [Why do] so many of the Swiss support Palestinian rights...? Because Swiss society is very hurt by having discovered the robbery [of the Jews.]..."
[PA TV, May 27, 2003]

PA Crossword Puzzle: The Holocaust is a lie

Clue: "The Jewish Center for eternalizing the Holocaust and the lies."

Solution: "Yad Vashem" [Israel's national Holocaust memorial]
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, February 18, 1999]

"Marketing Ashes" The Fable of the Holocaust

Introduction

This article, defining the Holocaust as a "fable" appeared just days before Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day in the official Palestinian daily, and includes the following:

  • Holocaust history is a "fable"
  • The Zionists use the Holocaust fable for political and financial profit
  • The Jewish-controlled media in the West perpetuate Holocaust myths
  • The six million figure is a lie as "the vaults in the camp could not have held even one percent of that number"
  • The Jews brought European anti-Semitism on themselves because Zionism needed a unifying factor against assimilation
  • Palestinians are the true Holocaust victims

"MARKETING ASHES"
By Hiri Manzour

"The issue of the Holocaust ... defies disappearing over its half-century because the Zionist propaganda has converted it into a means to produce political and economic benefit... A recently published book by an American researcher discusses the Holocaust. Employing scientific and chemical evidence, it proves that the figure of six million Jews cremated in the Nazi Auschwitz camps is a lie for propaganda, as the most spacious of the vaults in the camp could not have held even one percent of that number...

"By and large, the Zionist movement cannot tolerate inactivity in any facet of the Holocaust profession, especially since intelligentsia from around the globe have begun addressing the corresponding holocaust, that is the one the Hebrew State is bringing upon the Palestinians. And so, the Jewish Holocaust defenders themselves are on constant alert, apprehensive of the shift of attention from the fable of the Holocaust to the specific, historic holocaust...

"The question now discussed in the halls of the universities and the renowned publishing houses in the world's capitals, is, has this hen reached its expiration date, which lays golden eggs for the Jews everywhere...?

"When Zionism cannot find an enemy to separate and repel the Jews, it invents such an enemy; and so was the case with the Holocausts. Its need for it [i.e. the Holocaust] is imperative, even organic - required to fill its message with the drama needed to get it across. What is happening now is not just an activation of the Holocaust and its revival from ashes, but its reproduction and international marketing.

"Unfortunately for the Zionist circles, the West itself has awoken from its half-century coma. And so the time has come for the European intellectual to declare himself historically mature and to liberate himself from the Jewish guardianship that entangled him in existential difficulties, and in a memory filled with guilt, on top of the collective guilty verdict applied evenly by Zionism upon the nations of Europe.

"The Hebrew state is wary not only of scientific doubts being cast upon the Holocaust, but also because they see this doubt as a portal to the denunciation of all the false Jewish claims...

"The components of this new holocaust are nearly all finalized, and the world has started following it closely while re-examining the whole story that has lived more than fifty years, due to the media which carried it and was its missionary, and not due to its being 'historical'."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 13, 2001]

"All Lies... No Auschwitz, They were Disinfecting Sites"

The exploitation of the Holocaust for Palestinian political purposes is widespread in the Palestinian Authority. This exploitation includes Holocaust denial, equating Israel and Zionism to Nazism, claims that it was the Palestinians who suffered a holocaust, and others. In an educational program on PA TV, a senior Palestinian historian in a talk with the Chairman of the PA Public Library, said the Holocaust was a lie and Auschwitz a place for disinfecting Jews.

Dr. Issam Sissalem, a lecturer of history at Islamic University, in Gaza, appears frequently on Palestinian television as an expert on Jews and Judaism.

To view part of this interview online, click here

"...Lies surfaced about Jews being murdered here and there, and the Holocaust. And, of course, they are all lies and unfounded claims. No Dachau, no Auschwitz! [They] were disinfecting sites... They began to publicize in their propaganda that they were persecuted, murdered and exterminated... Committees acted here and there to establish this entity [i.e. Israel - Ed.], this foreign entity, implanted as a cancer in our country, where our fathers lived, where we live, and where our children after us will live. They always portrayed themselves as victims, and they made a Center for Heroism and Holocaust. Whose heroism? Whose Holocaust? Heroism is our nation's, the Holocaust was against our people... We were the victims, but we shall not remain victims forever..."
[PA TV, November 29, 2000]

The Jews Transformed Their "Burnt Bodies" into a "Hen Laying Golden Eggs"

"The Jews transformed what people think is the smoke of their burnt bodies into gold. The Nazi rooster, they already transformed it to a hen laying golden eggs. And all of Lieberman's attempts and tens of letters of Europeans and Americans who tried to warn us of this extortion, Zionism succeeded in dispersing in the West a type of Nazi phobia..."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, September 22, 2000]

Jews Fabricated Story of Gas Ovens
and Holocaust to Arouse Admiration

"The winds blew in their [the Jews] favor, when the persecution against them by the Nazi Hitler started ... [and] then the show began. They began to distribute horrific pictures of mass shooting being committed against them and to fabricate the shocking story about gas ovens, which, according to them, Hitler would burn them. Newspaper columns began to fill up with pictures of Jews being cut down by Hitler's machine guns, and of Jews being led to the gas ovens. In these pictures they concentrated on women, children and the elderly. And they took advantage of this in order to arouse admiration for them, while they demand monetary compensation, grants and contributions from all over the world.

"The truth is that the persecution of the Jews is a false fable that the Jews called the disaster of the Holocaust ... and took advantage of it in order to arouse admiration... And although it is possible that Hitler's attack against the Jews hurt them slightly, it also serviced them to the point where still today they reap the benefits and it was the main door to her winning the American and European admiration and to realizing their dream and their plans...

"When we survey the news agencies, the newspapers, the journals and the world television stations, which the Jews control in the West, the extent of their media influence in the world becomes clear to us [and their control] of a number of world news agencies, French and British newspapers..."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 2, 1998]

Jewish Holocaust Extortion

"Many of the enlightened and the politicians of Europe and America have already been disgusted by the extortion of the Jews and it is quite clear that they have a deep tendency to be free of the yoke of memory that is mixed with terror, especially after it has been known that the Jewish explanation exaggerating the Holocaust has exceeded all limits and reached a level of imagination of things that could never happen."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, September 19, 2000]

The PA List of 'Great Europeans' - Holocaust Deniers and Nazi Officer

Introduction

A Palestinian daily covered the release of a research center paper, which gives prominence and support to "great" Europeans who withstood the lies of "world Zionism." This list of Europeans includes two prominent Holocaust deniers, a Nazi officer in World War II, and leader of an extremist right-wing political party.

"The Zaid Center ... published a new research paper entitled, "These are the people who challenged Israel in the last 50 years." This research surveys honored ... Europeans - leaders, politicians, and thinkers - [who have stood] against world Zionism and Israel...

"Five of the most famous personalities who were known for their opposition to the Zionist pressure - the French leader Charles de Gaulle, past Secretary-General of the UN and the president of Austria, Kurt Waldheim [a Nazi officer] and the famous English historian David Irving [a Holocaust denier], the new Austrian leader Yorg Heider and the writer and thinker Frenchman Roger Grudie [a Holocaust denier].

"The center points out at the beginning of the paper that it was defined as an historical paper for the Arab reader, and in it a thanks, appreciation and recognition to these people and others, among those who defend the rights and justice in the world."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, February 6, 2001]

Excerpts from PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas' Dissertation

The Other Side: The secret relations between Nazism and the leadership of the Zionist movement, 1983, translation by Simon Wiesenthal Center.

On cooperation between the Zionist leaders and Nazi Germany
"A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement...[The Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine."

On Jews artificially raising the number of Holocaust victims
"Having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner - suffering victims in a battle - it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting."

"It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement ... is to inflate this figure so that their gains will be greater. This led them to emphasize this figure in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions - fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand."

On doubts about the numbers Jews killed in Holocaust
"Following the war, word was spread that six million Jews were amongst the victims and that a war of extermination was aimed primarily at the Jews... The truth is that no one can either confirm or deny this figure.

"In other words, it is possible that the number of Jewish victims reached six million, but at the same time it is possible that the figure is much smaller - below one million".