Religious hate speech for children on PA TV

Child recites poem:

Jews - "Allah's enemies, the sons of pigs"

"murdered children," "cut off their limbs,"

"raped the women in the city squares"
and "defiled Allah's book"

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=8730

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

Earlier this month, Palestinian children were taught Islam-based hatred of Jews on the weekly PA TV children's show The Best Home. A young girl recited a poem filled with both Islamic hate messages and other libels demonizing Jews. The poem taught Palestinian children that Jews, "Allah's enemies, the sons of pigs," defiled the Quran and Jerusalem, both crimes against Islam, and "murdered children," "cut off their limbs," and "raped the women in the city squares." Palestinian Media Watch has documented that this weekly PA TV children's program teaches hatred and denial of Israel's existence.

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The suggested response to Jews and Zionists offered in this hate poem is military and Islamic:

"Where is the nation of Islam?

Where are the nation of Islam and the Jihad fighters?"

At the end of the recital of the hate poem, the young program host applauded enthusiastically and said:

"Bravo, applause, applause, applause to Hadeel."

The poem also included a tribute to Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization and Arafat:

"From between the whistles of the bullets I sing:

'Long live the nation of Fatah and Yasser Arafat.'"

This Islam-based hatred that in the past was associated exclusively with Hamas is now appearing in mainstream PA children's education as well.

The following is the text of the hate poem recited by a young girl on PA TV's children's program:

Girl: "Allah created me and formed me

He made me prouder and made me a Palestinian

He made defiance flow like blood in my veins

And I made the revolution burst forth like clay stones

I raised the flags of certain victory:

Allah's book [the Quran] and the tradition of the most esteemed among prophets [Muhammad].

I called in the voice of hidden justice

I lit a fire like volcanoes under their feet

I refused to be submissive and degraded

I rejected [everything] but dying with the honor that will give me life

From a nation that has forgotten the Muslims' heroism

- Omar ibn al-Khattab and Saladin - [Muslim fighters who conquered Jerusalem]

from between the whistles of the bullets I sing:

'Long live the nation of Fatah and Yasser Arafat'

Allah's enemies, the sons of pigs (i.e., Jews, in Islamic tradition)

Destroyed and uprooted the olive and fig trees

They murdered children with guns, like snakes

They cut off their limbs with stones and knives

They raped the women in the city squares

They defiled Allah's book [the Quran] in front of millions

Where is the nation of Islam?

Where are the nation of Islam and the Jihad fighters?

Where is the fear of Allah in Jerusalem, which has been defiled by the Zionists?"

PA TV host: "Bravo, applause, applause, applause to Hadeel."

[PA TV (Fatah), March 22, 2013]

PMW has documented the PA's promotion of Antisemitic messages.

PMW has documented the PA's promotion of libels and lies about Jews and Israelis.