Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin
July 11, 2003
PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
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Introduction
PMW director, Itamar Marcus, gave a lecture this week to members of European
Parliament in Brussels on the topic of Palestinian hate education, at the
invitation of Ilka Shroeder, German Member of European Parliament.
The following article on the lecture appeared in Thursday's Jerusalem Post:
Jerusalem Post : July 10, 2003
Watchdog group: Palestinian incitement still a problem
Tovah Lazaroff
Palestinian incitement to violence is down, but its anti-Israel message of
hate can still be strongly heard, according to Itamar Marcus, whose watchdog
group Palestinian Media Watch monitors anti-Israeli and Jewish messages in
the Arab media.
Marcus told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that while Prime Minister Silvan
Shalom was technically correct in his statement Monday that Palestinian
incitement is down, the problem still exists.
In the years 1996-2000, the Palestinians primarily taught hate, but not
violence. It is that hatred that laid the groundwork for the violence,
Marcus said.
On Wednesday, Marcus spoke in Brussels to a group of about 40 European Union
parliamentarians about the anti-Semitic culture of hate that he believes
continues to pervade Palestinian media and society in spite of Israeli
television images showing Palestinians wiping anti-Israeli graffiti off city
walls in Gaza.
During their graduation ceremony Palestinian high school seniors in a Gaza
high school this week listened to the words of the song, "With words and
with a rifle we will sing...From Jerusalem to Gaza."
The call to violence is still there, even if it is not as strong, Marcus
said.
Marcus told the European Union parliamentarians that the Palestinian
anti-Israeli ideology, outside of violence, can be divided into two
messages. The first emphasizes the lack of connection between the Jewish
people and the land coupled with the belief that it is the Palestinians who
are truly connected to the land.
Only a few days ago, a Palestinian educational film opened with a film
showing a map of all of Israel from Metulla to Eilat that was defined as
Palestine, Marcus said. In the program, according to Marcus, it was said,
that "Palestine is the heart of the Arab nation, if it does not remain whole
the whole of the Arab nation will be weak."
The second message is that Jews are cold-blooded murders. This theme
continues in music videos and commercials, Marcus said. Marcus described one
music video, Emi, in which a mother runs down the stairs to greet her
daughter who is returning home from school with flowers and candy. The
mother is killed by an Israeli soldier and in the next scene the girl is
seen putting the flowers on her mother's grave and singing about how much
she misses her, Marcus said.
Marcus was invited to speak to the EU politicians by German parliamentarian
Ilka Schroder, who is calling on the EU to stop its support of the
Palestinian Authority. Known as a leftist politician, Schroder is unique in
that she is also pro-Israel. For over a year she has worked against the
Palestinian Authority misuse of European funds and its use of anti-Semitic
and anti-Israel rhetoric.
"The growth of anti-Semitism in the Palestinian territories in the last few
years is not an accidental phenomena," Schroder said. "It is the result of a
political strategy by the PA to mobilize people for an anti-Semitic war.
Listening to the hate-speeches of Palestinian officials, their affirmations
of their willingness to peace sound merely hypocritical. You cannot build a
stable peace on the foundation of hate and anti-Semitism."
Jul. 10, 2003
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