Arab anti-semitism

Anti-semitism can be found in many parts of the Arab and Muslim world.

Much anti-semetic literature is published by Arab governments.

• Syrian has claimed in the UN that Jews murder and eat Christian babies for Passover

• Egyptian newspapers claimsthat Jews lace bubble gum with aphrodisiacs to cause Muslim girls to lose sexual inhibitions

• Egyptian and Palestinian newspaper claim that Jews invented HIV (the virus that causes AIDS)

• Arab newspapers in many countriesacross the middle-east state as a fact that Jews control all the world's governments, and that Jews plan genocide on all the Arabs in the West Bank. These newspapers also frequently run stories saying that that all Jews are capitalists and control the world's banks, or tjat that all Jews are communists and plan a Marxist takeover of the world.

• Claims exist that that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are real; and that the Holocaust never took place.

Example "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 was composed and when Herzl along with Weizmann traveled around the world in order to determine the appropriate location for the implementation of this conspiracy," (official Palestinian Authority newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, Nov. 30, 1997)

Example: "The Jews seek to conquer the world...We must expose the Zionist-Colonialist plot and its goals, which destroy not only our people but the entire world" PA Minister of Agriculture, Abdel Jawad Saleh, quoted in Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, Nov. 6, 1997.

Link: [Antisemtism in the Palestinian Authority]

A detailed study of all aspects of antisemitism can be found here:

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/antisem.html

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The Palestinian Authority's offical television channel has shows which teach 6 and 7 year old kids to murder Jewish people. Episodes of a program called “The Children’s Club,” broadcast in early 1998, showed a group of young Arab children, one of whom stood up, raised her fist, and shouted: “When I wander into Jerusalem, I will turn into a suicide warrior in battle dress! In battle dress!” She was cheered and applauded by the other children in the group, and their adult leader declared, “Bravo! Bravo!” On another segment, a young girl sang: “Each and every part of your soil I have drenched with all my blood. And we shall march as warriors of Jihad. Oh, my exalted martyr, you are my example. Oh, my sister, sing constantly about my life as a suicide warrior, how we remain steadfast. On, my country, you are my soul.” (Videotape of “The Children’s Club,” Peace for Generations, Jerusalem, 1998)

An investigation by the Philadelphia Inquirer (September 7, 1997) found children’s programs on PA television in which an 8 year-old girl was shown singing: “I am a daughter of Palestine Koran in my right hand, in my left — a knife,” and another in which a young girl recites a poem she said she wrote for Arafat: “I am finished practicing on the submachine gun of return.. .We swear to take vengeful blood from our enemies for our killed and wounded. We will board a bustling boat which will take us to Jaffa.” On the show, the girl then approached Arafat, who kissed her on both cheeks. The Inquirer continued:

"In a show about the opening of Palestinian schools, girls in frilly white dresses were shown dancing with Kalashnikov rifles that they twirled like batons. In another broadcast, a schoolboy, asked what he got out of summer camp, answered: ‘I am defending the homeland and undergo training like army drills.’ "

"There is a children’s quiz show about great figures in Palestinian history--many of whom are considered heroes by Palestinians, but terrorists by Israelis. One show featured Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a sheik who was killed by the British in 1935. The military wing of Hamas, which has carried out many terrorist bombings in Israel, was named for Qassam. The heroine of another episode was Dalal al-Maghribi, a woman who commanded a bus hijacking near Haifa in 1978. Thirty-four Israelis and nine Palestinian commandos, Magribi among them, were killed. The quiz-show emcee referred to Magribi as ‘our sacred martyr."

Senior PA officials also regularly engage in hostile propaganda against Israel, and Arafat has taken no action against them. For example, the Deputy Minister of the PA Ministry of Supplies has accused Israel of giving Palestinian Arabs “food containing material that causes cancer and hormones that harm male virility and other spoiled food products in order to poison and harm the Palestinian population.” (Yediot Ahronot, June 25, 1997)

The PLO’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva has accused Israel of injecting “300 Palestinian children with the HIV virus.” (Jerusalem Post, March 17, 1997)

The director of the Inspection Department of the PA Ministry of Supplies has claimed that Israeli chewing gums sold in PLO-controlled areas “contain a sexually-stimulating adrenaline substance.” (Jerusalem Post, March 27, 1997)

Senior PA officials and the PA-controlled media have also repeatedly made statements denigrating Jewish religious beliefs and Jewish history, such as denying that modern Jews have any connection to the Jews in the Bible; denying that Jews have any historical connection to Jerusalem; denying that the Temple Mount and Western Wall have any religious significance in Judaism; and claiming that biblical patriarchs such as Abraham were not Jews. Senior PA officials and the PA-controlled media have also repeatedly made statements distorting or denying the Holocaust.

In some cases, they have claimed that Jews invented the “myth” of Nazi genocide in order to gain world sympathy and reparations money. In other instances, they have acknowledged that some Jews were murdered by the Nazis, but charged that Jews vastly exaggerated the death toll for political purposes. Thus Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Arafat’s number two man and the architect of the Oslo accords, is the author of a book claiming that the Nazis may have really killed less than one million Jews. (Jerusalem Post, January 26, 1995) Numerous senior PA officials have also compared Israel to the Nazis, in some cases declaring that Israel’s treatment of Arabs is even worse than the Nazis’ treatment of Jews.

Holocaust denial in the Palestinian Authority

• "No more than 400,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis." "It is well-known that every year the Jews exaggerate what the Nazis did to them," said the moderator of a cultural affairs program on Palestinian Authority Television, during an Aug. 25, 1997. "They claim there were 6 million killed, but precise scientific research demonstrates that there were no more than 400,000."

• "Zionists forged Holocaust claims." On Sept. 3, 1997, the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah featured an article by Palestinian Arab author Nabil Salam, which declared: "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 Nazis during World War II, through which was revealed the forged claims of the Zionists regarding the alleged acts of slaughter perpetrated against the Jews during the same period."

• "Zionists were partners with the Nazis in the Holocaust." Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), the number 2 official in the PLO and architect of the Oslo accords, authored and has refused to retract a book claiming that "the Zionist movement was a partner in the slaughter of the Jews." The book is entitled The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement. The book also claims that the Nazis may have really killed less than one million Jews. (Jerusalem Post, Jan. 26,1995)

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