(communicated by the Israel Government Press Office)
Jerusalem, December 16, 1997
THE AGREEMENT
Under the terms of the Oslo Accords and the Hebron Protocol, the
Palestinian Authority (PA) is obligated to refrain from incitement
against Israel and to take measures to prevent others from engaging
in it.Full Report: A Compendium of Hate: Palestinian Authority Antisemitism Since Hebron d
(communicated by the Israel Government Press Office)
Jerusalem, December 16, 1997
THE AGREEMENT
Under the terms of the Oslo Accords and the Hebron Protocol, the
Palestinian Authority (PA) is obligated to refrain from incitement
against Israel and to take measures to prevent others from engaging
in it.
In his exchange of letters with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on
September 9, 1993, Chairman Yasser Arafat wrote, "the PLO renounces
the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume
responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to
assure their compliance, prevent violations and discipline
violators."
The Interim Agreement (Oslo 2) of September 28, 1995 (Article XXII)
states that Israel and the PA "shall seek to foster mutual
understanding and tolerance and shall accordingly abstain from
incitement, including hostile propaganda, against each other and,
without derogating from the principle of freedom of expression,
shall take legal measures to prevent such incitement by any
organizations, groups or individuals within their jurisdiction."
In the Note for the Record which accompanied the Hebron Protocol of
January 15, 1997, the Palestinians reaffirmed their commitment
regarding, "Preventing incitement and hostile propaganda, as
specified in Article XXII of the Interim Agreement."
THE VIOLATIONS
Antisemitism is an integral part of the rhetoric of Palestinian
Authority (PA) officials, and they encourage its use in the
Palestinian media in violation of the accords. Six recurrent themes
are discernible:
1) Classic anti-Semitic stereotypes
2) Comparisons of Israel with Nazis and Fascists
3) Denial of the Holocaust
4) Libelous Accusations
5) Delegitimizing Israel and the Jewish people
6) Equating Zionism with racism
Repeated reference is made by Palestinians to the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, and Palestinian Authority newspapers publish
stories about Jewish "plots" and Jewish "fangs". Jews are often
depicted as power-hungry and lusting after money, with occasional
references to Shakespeare's Shylock and the Merchant of Venice as
examples of Jewish greed.
In the tradition of the medieval blood libel, Palestinian officials
have accused Israel of injecting Palestinians with the AIDS virus,
conducting medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners and selling
spoiled food to Palestinians.
The Palestinian media and Palestinian officials have engaged in
Holocaust denial and accused Jews of inflating the number of
victims in order to profit from it. Ironically, even as they deny
the Holocaust, the Palestinians regularly equate Israel with the
Nazis and Zionism with Nazism.
Following is a collection of over 50 recent quotes. Within each
section, the quotes appear in reverse chronological order:
1. Anti-Semitic Stereotypes
"There is a need to formulate a clear information plan... In order
for us to oppose the Zionist media, which dominates more than half
of the media in the world - newspapers, radio and television."
--- from a program on the official PA television station about the
media, December 3, 1997
"... 'Netanyahu's Plan' completely matches the foundations of the
greater Zionist plan which is organized according to specific
stages that were determined when the Protocols of the Elders of
Zion were composed and when Herzl along with Weizmann traveled
around the world in order to determine the appropriate location for
the implementation of this conspiracy."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, November 30, 1997
"Egypt declared its absolute refusal to grant a prize to
Israel--the convening of the Doha summit--and displayed its
indifference to American pressure-tactics employed by the Judaized
Congress."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda by its editor Hafez al-Barghouti, November 18, 1997
"...The rumor about the 'superior Jew' versus the 'stupid' others
which are not worthy of anything but of serving as subjects, is
spread around the world. The Jews put their best efforts into
creating it. Every genius has to be of Jewish descent; if he is not
of Jewish descent he is forced to make one up for himself.
Additionally, any talented military commander, either his mother is
Jewish if his name is reminiscent of anything Jewish, or, if his
mother is not Jewish- then he ends up being a Jewish agent. The
Jews succeeded, during their history, to turn the massacres they
were subjected to into a 'weapon of mass destruction' against their
adversaries and used the weapon of anti-Semitism in an impressive
way... In order to establish their "superiority" they provided
proof and claimed that the founder of modern psychology, Sigmund
Freud, is a Jew in origin and blood; that the father of the Theory
of Relativity, who changed the face of science, Albert Einstein, is
a Jew inside and out, and that Isaac Newton, who discovered
Gravity, is wholeheartedly a Jew. The best proof of the Jewish
political ability is the Communist Karl Marx, who is also a Jew
from birth. Regarding the millionaires from Rothschild through
Montefiore to Moskowitz: aren't they sufficient proof of Jewish
'superiority'?"
--- from an article entitled "The Legend of Jewish Superiority?!"
in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds, November 11, 1997
"Whoever comes in contact with the banks discovers that they act in
Shylock's way. We do not want Shylock-style banks that empty our
pockets, but national banks; we have had enough of the Shylock of
the lands and settlements."
--- from an article entitled "The Banks and Shylock" in the
official PA newspaper
Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda by the paper's editor Hafez al-Barghouti,
November 5, 1997
"Israeli society started feeling ashamed of Netanyahu's rise to the
highest position of power...when all of his qualities amount to his
outdated Talmudic arrogance and his absolute belief that he is the
spoiled child of Brooklyn's nymphs."
--- from a communique issued by Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of
the PLO, quoted in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda,
November 4, 1997
"We did not take into account the way of thinking of the other side
which is a Jewish mentality based on the love of controlling
everything, and which does not easily grants others their
rights..."
--- from an article in the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds (November
1, 1997)
US Ambassador-Designate to Israel Edward Walker "underwent
extensive hearings in the Congress or, that is, in the 'Council of
the Elders of Zion', in order to win his post."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda by its editor Hafez al-Barghouti, October 30, 1997
"This is a pitiful show that expresses nothing other than the
Talmudic quarrel-mongering mentality that rules Netanyahu and the
members of his group who govern Tel Aviv......But we know that
Netanyahu did not change and will not change because [not even]
lipstick could make his blood-sucking lips beautiful...
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, October 29, 1997
" The Jews always set a trap for the community of Muslims The
Koran repeatedly warns against the traps and plots of the "people
of the book". They relentlessly scheme in all times and places and
this is what they do today and tomorrow against the Muslim camp "
--- excerpt from the weekly Friday prayer sermon at Al-Aqsa mosque
broadcast on the official PA radio station the Voice of Palestine,
October 24, 1997
" It is impossible to rely on international or Arab national
circles as long as Netanuyahu's claws of hatred dive into our
Palestinian blood in search of oxygen-rich blood cells our movement
found in Netanyahu something it could not ignore which is the
dismemberment of the agreement by the fangs of hatred and the
chewing of the peace by the teeth of the Talmud We must recognize
that this stubborn enemy, locks itself in the Talmud's cocoon "
--- excerpts from a position paper issued by Yasser Arafat's Fatah
faction of the PLO and published in the official PA newspaper
Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, October 18, 1997
"The White House is a hostage of 'the two prisons' or the two
HousesÄthe Senate and the House of Representatives, which are more
extreme than the 'elders of Zion.'"
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda by the paper's editor Hafez al-Barghouti, October 14,
1997
"It is important to conduct the conflict according to the
foundations which both are leaning on...particularly the
Jews...such as the Torah, the Talmud and the Protocols [of the
elders of Zion]... All signs unequivocally prove that the conflict
between the Jews and the Muslims is an eternal and on-going
conflict, even if it stops for short intervals... This conflict
resembles the conflict between man and Satan... This is the fate of
the Muslim nation, and beyond that the fate of all of the nations
of the world, to be tormented by this nation [the Jews]. The fate
of the Palestinian people is to struggle against the Jews on behalf
of the Arab peoples, the Islamic peoples and the peoples of the
entire world."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda summarizing the work of a Palestinian researcher,
September 1, 1997
"What 'Israel' is trying to do...by way of its control over a
number of institutions in the US, such as the Congress and its
allies...reveals the nakedness of those people and their blind
submission to world Zionism...The peace equation was somewhat
violated, since the Zionists were able to demonstrate their power
in the US...that is the power which was clearly revealed in the
Zionist American Congress which led to the terrorizing of the
American president and the administration, through threats of sex
and morals scandals which are disseminated by the obedient media
in the US..."
--- Brig. Gen. Khaled Al-Musmar, Deputy Head of the PA's
Indoctrination Directorate, Falastin Al-Yaum, August 21, 1997
"The portrait of the usurious Jew painted by Shakespeare in his
well-known masterpiece, "The Merchant of Venice" did not ignite a
Jewish attack accusing him of anti-Semitism, since it fit the
general view held by Europeans at that time, when the European
continent...vomited the Jews to the periphery... The Israelis wish
to contain Christian pilgrims in the year 2000...put them next to
the settlers who have their sights set on large financial
compensation and immediate profit out of land ownership which has
been confiscated by a mayor backed by fanatical religious and
nationalistic trends and by a millionaire usurer who comes from
across the ocean...At this moment the portrait of the Shakespearean
hero reappears...and all signs point to the fact that this merchant
of Venice will become a new Dracula."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, August 16, 1997
"...We exude the scent of jasmine...throughout the world, and they
release the darkness and hatred of the mobs with the long beards
over the land. We declare life...while they have shut themselves up
behind death and have been entrenching themselves in its
excavations for the last fifty years, which is also their age, the
age of evil..."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, August 11, 1997
"The [Palestinian] Authority cannot do a thing, except protect its
people and itself from an enemy which bares its Jewish fangs from
the four corners of the earth...
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, August 6, 1997
"...A doctor currently dealing with the national dialogue says:
"...in my experience Israeli blood is AB minus - which takes from
everyone and doesn't give to anyone except those of his own [blood]
type - while Palestinian blood is O minus - which gives to everyone
and takes only from his own type..." Generosity is an Arab custom
and stinginess is a Jewish custom. Therefore, it is only natural
that we give and they take. We are killed and they incarcerate! We
build and they destroy! We agree and they refuse! We make
commitments and they close us off!"
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, August 5, 1997
"The existing State of Israel is not worthy of ruling since they
know no religion and no God."
--- Sheikh Hamid Al-Bitawi, chairman of the Palestine Religious
Scholars Association and head of the PA's Sharia Court of Appeals
in Nablus, in an interview with the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, July 27, 1997
"We believe that the Israelis are not adventuresome because the
Jewish brain is cowardly and does not tend toward adventure, but
rather exchanges it for plotting... These things have to be said as
a description of the situation, and as a description of the
baseness of this reactionary and cruel American Jewish world."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, July 27, 1997
"Oh, Allah, destroy America for it is controlled by Zionist
Jews...Allah will avenge, in the name of his Prophet, the
colonialist settlers who are the descendants of monkeys and
pigs...forgive us, oh Muhammad, for the acts of these monkeys and
pigs who wished to profane your holiness".
--- from the weekly Friday prayer sermon by PA Mufti Ikrima Sabri
broadcast on the official PA radio station the Voice of Palestine,
July 11, 1997.
"The soldiers of the Talmudic offensive do not hesitate to call
openly for revenge against Christianity for having persecuted
European Jewry we know that Jesus was a victim of the roots of
Talmudic extremism, which is currently waving a national flag,
wearing a helmet of a national army and employing state-run
terrorism by means of armed settlers and an army."
--- Hasan Al-Kashef, Director-General of the PA Information
Ministry, quoted in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda,
July 7, 1997
"Announcer: The occupation is shooting at children, women and
infants The latest reports reaching us from Hebron prove that the
occupation forces have opened fire on children, women and infants
"
Voice of a Hebron resident: " our enemies have no mercy and no
heart this shows that they have no conscience. Their hearts are
like stone. They are not human beings. One can not compare them to
people. They are like animals, they are like animals."
--- Report from the daily news program on the official PA radio
station the Voice of Palestine, June 24, 1997
"O our beautiful land imprisoned in a cage and surrounded by
wolves, My shaded garden, the tormentors have destroyed you,
and the dogs have settled in you, O Jerusalem, O my city,
With my notebook and pencil and the fire of my rifle I will shatter
the cage, I will kill the wolves and plant the flag,
The dogs will not bark in the heroic cities."
--- poem read on the Voice of Palestine, the official PA radio
station, on May 22, 1997 during the morning news program "A New
Day" as part of a series of "Songs of the Homeland". The poem was
read on the Voice of Palestine during the September 1996 riots.
"Five Zionist Jews are running the policy of the United States in
the Middle East: Madeleine Albright, William Cohen, Dennis Ross,
Miller and Martin Indyk. It is not possible that the American
nation, which consists of 250 million people, can not find anyone
other than five Zionist Jews to conduct the peace process with the
Palestinians."
--- PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Middein (Yediot Aharonot, April
13, 1997)
"We are fighting and struggling with an enemy who is Shylock. We
must know that he is Shylock."
--- Othman Abu Gharbiya, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's Adviser on
National Political Guidance, in an interview with the official PA
radio station the Voice of Palestine, March 15, 1997
2. Comparisons of Israel with Nazis and Fascists
"Jerusalemites and any other Muslim who is able to reach the gates
of the Al-Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers must report to the Israeli
police at the gates to hand in his ID to be checked and on many
occasions is prevented from entry or even arrested. This of course
should remind the Europeans of Nazi occupation by Nazi soldiers
surrounding churches and places of worship during the Second World
War. Israeli practices in many aspects are equal with, if not more
brutal than, those practiced by occupying Nazi soldiers dealing
with French-Dutch citizens during the Second World War."
--- PA Information Ministry press release, December 10, 1997
"We must not lay aside the blade of the Palestinian struggle which
we grasp with Arab and international support, a blade with which we
must struggle to shatter the two elements in the Likud's ideology:
the racist-Torah part and the nationalist-fascist part. This is our
fate."
--- PA Minister for Refugee Affairs Assad Abdel Rahman in an
article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, December
6, 1997
"The occupation forces have imposed a siege on the camp of Al-Aroub
whose children set new records in their opposition to the acts of
the occupation with the little stones they throw from behind the
wire fences dozens of meters in height which show the world the
Nazism of the occupation at the end of the 20th century, in an era
known as 'the era of peace' Al-Aroub residents tell the story of
one of the crimes of 'Nazism in a period of peace' ."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, December 8, 1997
" the Arab sees with his own eyes an Israeli occupation in
Palestine, the Golan and Lebanon, which can not be compared to any
occupation in this century except the Nazi occupation..."
--- from an article in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds, November 17,
1997
"We must act on the international level in the framework of a
detailed information plan which will expose the Zionist-Colonialist
plot and its goals, which destroy not only our people but the
entire world."
--- PA Agriculture Minister Abdel Jawad Saleh in an interview with
the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, November 6, 1997
"Just as Hitler's Mein Kampf was a warning sign for his future
political path which brought disaster on Germany and the world, so
Netanyahu's A Place Among the Nations explains all of the author's
initiatives since he took power in Israel The racist curses
against the enemy and the legendary praises of himself make a
noticeable point of similarity between Hitler's and Netanyahu's
books Netanyahu tries to calm Jewish fears about the demographic
superiority and the natural Arab birth rates in Palestine He does
not refer to the means he will employ to achieve the goal of a
reduction of the Arab birth rate In this point we are reminded of
Hitler's statements about the sterilization of undesired segments
of the population."
--- from an article by Nahid Munir Al-Rayyis, a member of the PA's
Legislative Council (Al-Quds, October 15, 1997)
"This reminds me of Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) who
said 'tell lies and lies, and in the end they will believe you.'
The same is true of the Jews. It is a disgrace that they are
issuing an arrest warrant against me. Apparently they have learned
Goebbels' methods."
--- PA Police Chief Ghazi Jabali, in reaction to the arrest warrant
issued against him by Israel for his involvement in terrorist
attacks (Maariv, September 12, 1997)
"The appearance of the Zionist movement prompted the emergence of
terrorist, racist ideologies, such as, the Nazi ideology. There is
great similarity between the two ideologies: the Zionists believe
that they are "God's Chosen People," and that other nations were
created to be used and ridiculed... the Zionist Jews claim that
they hate the nations since they persecute them out of jealousy of
their wisdom, their success and their being God's chosen.
Similarly, the Nazis claim that the Aryans are the chosen and the
pure and that anti-Semitism is the punishment of the Jewish Germans
who betrayed their country... Of course the similarity between the
two racist ideologies - the Zionist and the Nazi - is obvious and
the despicable racial content of each of them is clear. The Zionist
movement, as well as Nazism, believes that it represents the
absolute truth that must be maintained, otherwise it will lose its
value. .. The Nazi ideology pushed the world into the hell of the
Second World War...and during the war applied all forms of
terrorism, exactly as the Zionists are doing now. After the
passing of one hundred years since the establishment of Zionism,
here comes Benyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist
enemy, and presents a Nazi formula when he says that "peace between
Israel and the Arabs must be based on the principle of Israeli
strength." Since its establishment, the racist Zionist entity has
been implementing various forms of terrorism on a daily basis which
are a repetition of the Nazi terror. This proves the shared roots
of Nazi and Zionist thought. This also explains the cooperation
between the Jews and the Nazis during World War II, through which
were revealed the forged claims of the Zionists regarding alleged
acts of slaughter perpetrated against the Jews during the same
period There is no difference between Hitler and Ben-Gurion, and
if there was a difference at all, it was one of quantity and not
one of substance. Anyone who investigates the crimes of the
Zionists discovers explicitly the complementary traits between
Zionism, which is a racist terrorist movement, and the Nazi
movement."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeedah, September 3, 1997
"Netanyahu was blinded by the tyranny of power and is interested in
total Palestinian and Arab surrender to his unlimited desires...
perhaps in the European style of the German armies so that he will
be able to impose greater Israel and establish the superiority of
the Hebrew race..."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeedah, August 17, 1997
"While the Israeli government is speaking about the atrocities
committed against the Jews at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Dachau
concentration camps... it is directly involved these days in
weaving plots and causing two major catastrophes to their
neighbors... Our homeland was transformed into a big concentration
camp..."
--- from a PA Information Ministry press release, April 22, 1997
3. Holocaust Denial
"Since its establishment, the racist Zionist entity has been
implementing various forms of terrorism on a daily basis which are
a repetition of the Nazi terror This also explains the cooperation
between the Jews and the Nazis during World War II, through which
were revealed the forged claims of the Zionists regarding alleged
acts of slaughter perpetrated against the Jews during the same
period "
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeedah, September 3, 1997
"Moderator: It is well-known that every year the Jews exaggerate
what the Nazis did to them. They claim there were 6 million killed,
but precise scientific research demonstrates that there were no
more than 400,000. Has the complex which the Jews have as a result
of the Nazis' actions created within them psychological burdens
which they are now releasing against the Palestinians?
Palestinian author Hassan Al-Agha: The truth is I do not think so.
Psychological baggage after 40 or 50 years I am skeptical But I
do think that we are talking about an investment. They have
profited materially, spiritually, politically and economically from
the talk about the Nazi killings. This investment is favorable to
them and they view it as a profitable activity so they inflate the
number of victims all the time. In another ten years, I do not know
what number they will reach, Last year, for the first time, a
statistic appeared according to which 1 « million children were
killed by the Nazis. This number was not previously known If this
number was indeed correct, then someone would certainly have
remembered it In my opinion, it is an investment, and as you know,
when it comes to economics and investments, the Jews have been very
experienced ever since the days of the Merchant of Venice."
--- from a cultural affairs program broadcast on the official PA
television station on August 25, 1997.
"At the end of our period of imprisonment the time passed very
slowly. We felt as if we were being burned. Imagine...the Jews
are saying: "The Nazis burned us in gas chambers." That is a
false tale, but at times I felt that we were those who were being
burned up within the walls..."
--- Abir Al-Wahidi, female Fatah terrorist released in February
1997, in an interview with the official PA television station,
February 13, 1997
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