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PA TV: Americans Are Turning on Jews Because They Are Hurting the US Economy
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) alongside Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, July 26, 2023. Photo: Reuters/Palestinian Presidents’ Office
One of the fundamental messages of Palestinian Authority (PA) antisemitism is that Jews are justifiably hated around the world, because of the danger they pose to all societies where they’ve lived.
Last year, Mahmoud Abbas said on PA TV that the Europeans, and even “Hitler … fought the Jews because they worked based on usury and money. In other words, they caused ruin in his opinion, and therefore he hated them.”
The PA is now also promoting the message that Americans are beginning to hate American Jews because of the damage they are doing to the economy:
Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh: “The more serious question being posed to the American administration by the American people is: Why do the Jews control the American economy and money in the US?
Why do they receive preferential treatment, are allowed things forbidden to others, and control all the routes of economy in the US? There is a popular American awakening against the Jews’ influence in America and against the transfer of the [American] tax money to the occupation [i.e., Israel], which doesn’t even need it and uses it in ways that are illegitimate from their perspective.” [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, March 4, 2024]
The PA has been disseminating this classic antisemitic trope for years, and is now extending it to the American setting.
This is not the first time that Palestinian Media Wach has exposed Zakarneh’s viciously antisemitic comments, and how he presents Jews as a danger to the West. He recently explained Western support of Israel as a self-preservation action by the West to prevent the Jews, whom he defined as “human waste,” from moving to Europe and America:
I tell you there is something hidden here, and it is that they are not expressing these [pro-Israel] positions out of love for “Israel” in quotations, but rather, they — Europe and America — succeeded in getting rid of the Jews, whom they themselves view as human waste, and they threw them out into Palestine…
They don’t want reverse migration now and their [the Jews’] return to Europe again … [US President Joe] Biden said this during the events in Israel: “If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one.” He would have invented it to absorb the human waste. [emphasis added]
[Official PA TV, Oct. 24, 2023]
On its own, Zakarneh’s insinuation that Jews control the economy represents yet another manifestation of antisemitism, as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). It is a mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, stereotypical allegation about Jews, or the power of Jews as a collective.
In March alone, the PA has spread numerous other libels about Jews, such as the idea that Jews poison the water supply, and that contemporary Israeli policy is like Nazism. All such messages, and their coupling in particular with the message that Jews are destroying the American economy, must be categorically condemned.
The author is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.
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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op
DF operating in southern Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesperson
i24 News – The Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.
Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.
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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Illustrative. Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.
Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.
Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.
Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.
The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”
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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem
Illustrative. Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.
Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.
Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.
He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.
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