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The Palestinian Authority Called for the Murder of Jews — Then a Terrorist Murdered Two Israelis

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

On Sunday, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed two Israelis to death — one by one — thus fulfilling the call by Palestinian Authority (PA) Shari’ah judge Abdallah Harb just a month ago on PA TV that Allah should “strike [the Jews] and their allies” and “kill them one by one.”

PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “Allah, strike your enemies, the enemies of your religion … Allah, strike the aggressive Jews, strike them and their allies, O Master of the Universe, and those who support them both politically and with weapons and money.

O Allah, kill them one by one, Allah count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one of them, O Master of the Universe.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV Live, July 5, 2024]

Earlier in the war, the PA Shari’ah judge endorsed terror, saying that “everything done by our people is an acceptable response”:

PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “For more than 75 years our people has been subjected to aggression, ever since the occupation (i.e., establishment of Israel) at the least. It is oppressed and suffering, and everything that is done by our people is a response, and this response is acceptable.

It is our right, and [our people] must not be reproached for this, and it must not be held accountable for this.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV, May 31, 2024]

This is not the first time during the current war that PA and Fatah officials have urged the murder of Jews and Israelis.

On Oct. 7, 2023, after Hamas launched its terror war on Israel and committed a massacre, murdering over approximately 1,200 Israelis, Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, called on Palestinians — and specifically the PA Security Forces — to slaughter Jews, “the sons of apes and pigs”:

Posted text: “Allahu Akbar, come to Jihad, come to Jihad.

To all our sons and brothers in the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces throughout the West Bank — today is your day.

Break into the settlements, strike the sons of apes of pigs, kill everyone who is a settler, slaughter everyone who is Israeli, by Allah, they are the most cowardly among men.

Today is a tiding of days of victory, Allah willing –for this is Jihad, Jihad, victory or Martyrdom.” [emphasis added]

[The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades — Palestine the Occupied Land, Telegram channel, Oct. 7, 2023]

For three decades, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that the PA and Fatah support and glorify terrorism, and then financially reward it.

Currently, Fatah is doing its utmost to present itself as a leading champion of terrorism, bragging that it has more terrorists than Hamas.

Top Fatah official Jibril Rajoub has also urged Palestinians to murder Jews during the Gaza war. He instructed them to “set out against the settlers with all possible means” — a Palestinian term that includes the use of terror:

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “I call on the entire Palestinian street and all the Palestinian political forces to set out against the settlers with all possible means, and any settler who comes to them and attacks them doesn’t need to leave alive.” [emphasis added]

[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, Jan. 11, 2024]

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor Al-Habbash has taught Palestinians that the war with Israel is a “struggle between Satan and man”:

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “This struggle [against Israel] comes in various forms … This is the same struggle between Satan and man, between good and evil, between truth and lies, between those loyal to the Merciful One [Allah] and those loyal to Satan.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV Live, Feb. 9, 2024]

Furthermore, Al-Habbash has said that Israel’s defense against Hamas is a “war against Islam”:

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “What is happening to us ([i.e., the 2023 Gaza war] is part of a war against our religion, against our nation, against our existence. Allah said: ‘And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able’ [Quran 2:217]. Shall we not defend our religion? Shall the [Islamic] nation not defend its faith, its Jerusalem, its Al-Aqsa [Mosque], its Quran?” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV Live, March 8, 2024]

Abbas’ advisor has also encouraged Palestinians to go on Jihad in Israel, while denying Jewish history in the land:

Al-Habbash: ‘This land belonged to the Palestinians, and it still belongs to the Palestinians, and it will belong to the Palestinians. … This is the promise of Prophet [Muhammad], and this is the promise of Allah. The Gaza Strip today is the sister of Ashkelon … No one has a connection to the Al-Buraq Wall [i.e., the Western Wall] except for the Muslims, absolutely! Our lord Solomon was not here, his kingdom was not even here. And even if it was here, Solomon is a Muslim, on the path of Muhammad and Abraham [the Muslim].” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV Live, Feb. 9, 2024]

These calls and antisemitic ideologies echo Hamas ideology. One example is this music video by Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, in which they state that “killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”:

Text on poster: “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”

Lyrics: “O pride of Salah Shahada, O wisdom of Imad [Aqel] (i.e., Hamas leaders)

[O] the explosives of [Yahya] Ayyash (i.e., Hamas bomb maker),
the Martyrdom, and the lovers of the trigger:

Killing the occupiers is worship that Allah made into law.

Killing the occupiers is worship that Allah made into law.

Arise, O determined men.

The color of [the Martyr’s] blood protects the land…

O masked one wearing a keffiyeh terrifying the Jews…

Call out in Zionism’s face: “Muhammad’s army has begun to return” [emphasis added]

[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Nov. 18, 2012]

Another Hamas video includes the very same sentence that the PA Shari’ah judge used to call for murder of Jews last month: “Allah, count them and kill them to the last one, and don’t leave even one.”

These messages have filtered down to children for decades. Palestinian Media Watch exposed these two girls playing in the Gaza Strip during the current war, calling Jews “our dogs” and chanting “Death to Israel”:

Girls playing and chanting: “My sister is Yasmina

She is a beautiful young girl…

My uncle is Saladin (i.e., Muslim military leader)

He gave me the book of religion from Palestine

Palestine is our land, our land, our land

And the Jews are our dogs, our dogs, our dogs

They knocked on our doors, our doors, our doors

Like beggars…

Long live, long live Palestine

Death to Israel.

They knocked on our doors, our doors, our doors

Like beggars…

Long live, long live Palestine

Death to Israel.” [emphasis added]

[Quds News Network (Hamas), Twitter account, Nov. 30, 2023]

The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.

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Israel to Issue 54,000 Call-Up Notices to Ultra-Orthodox Students

Haredi Jewish men look at the scene of an explosion at a bus stop in Jerusalem, Israel, on Nov. 23, 2022. Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad

Israel’s military said it would issue 54,000 call-up notices to ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students following a Supreme Court ruling mandating their conscription and amid growing pressure from reservists stretched by extended deployments.

The Supreme Court ruling last year overturned a decades-old exemption for ultra-Orthodox students, a policy established when the community comprised a far smaller segment of the population than the 13 percent it represents today.

Military service is compulsory for most Israeli Jews from the age of 18, lasting 24-32 months, with additional reserve duty in subsequent years. Members of Israel’s 21 percent Arab population are mostly exempt, though some do serve.

A statement by the military spokesperson confirmed the orders on Sunday just as local media reported legislative efforts by two ultra-Orthodox parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to craft a compromise.

The exemption issue has grown more contentious as Israel’s armed forces in recent years have faced strains from simultaneous engagements with Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen, and Iran.

Ultra-Orthodox leaders in Netanyahu’s brittle coalition have voiced concerns that integrating seminary students into military units alongside secular Israelis, including women, could jeopardize their religious identity.

The military statement promised to ensure conditions that respect the ultra-Orthodox way of life and to develop additional programs to support their integration into the military. It said the notices would go out this month.

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Influential Far-Right Minister Lashes out at Netanyahu Over Gaza War Policy

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends an inauguration event for Israel’s new light rail line for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, in Petah Tikva, Israel, Aug. 17, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich sharply criticized on Sunday a cabinet decision to allow some aid into Gaza as a “grave mistake” that he said would benefit the terrorist group Hamas.

Smotrich also accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to ensure that Israel’s military is following government directives in prosecuting the war against Hamas in Gaza. He said he was considering his “next steps” but stopped short of explicitly threatening to quit the coalition.

Smotrich’s comments come a day before Netanyahu is due to hold talks in Washington with President Donald Trump on a US-backed proposal for a 60-day Gaza ceasefire.

“… the cabinet and the Prime Minister made a grave mistake yesterday in approving the entry of aid through a route that also benefits Hamas,” Smotrich said on X, arguing that the aid would ultimately reach the Islamist group and serve as “logistical support for the enemy during wartime”.

The Israeli government has not announced any changes to its aid policy in Gaza. Israeli media reported that the government had voted to allow additional aid to enter northern Gaza.

The prime minister’s office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The military declined to comment.

Israel accuses Hamas of stealing aid for its own fighters or to sell to finance its operations, an accusation Hamas denies. Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, with conditions threatening to push nearly a half a million people into famine within months, according to U.N. estimates.

Israel in May partially lifted a nearly three-month blockade on aid. Two Israeli officials said on June 27 the government had temporarily stopped aid from entering north Gaza.

PRESSURE

Public pressure in Israel is mounting on Netanyahu to secure a permanent ceasefire, a move opposed by some hardline members of his right-wing coalition. An Israeli team left for Qatar on Sunday for talks on a possible Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal.

Smotrich, who in January threatened to withdraw his Religious Zionism party from the government if Israel agreed to a complete end to the war before having achieved its objectives, did not mention the ceasefire in his criticism of Netanyahu.

The right-wing coalition holds a slim parliamentary majority, although some opposition lawmakers have offered to support the government from collapsing if a ceasefire is agreed.

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Australia Police Charge Man Over Alleged Arson on Melbourne Synagogue

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference with New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Aug. 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy

Australian police have charged a man in connection with an alleged arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue with worshippers in the building, the latest in a series of incidents targeting the nation’s Jewish community.

There were no injuries to the 20 people inside the East Melbourne Synagogue, who fled from the fire on Friday night. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in the capital of Victoria state.

Australia has experienced several antisemitic incidents since the start of the Israel-Gaza war in October 2023.

Counter-terrorism detectives late on Saturday arrested the 34-year-old resident of Sydney, capital of neighboring New South Wales, charging him with offenses including criminal damage by fire, police said.

“The man allegedly poured a flammable liquid on the front door of the building and set it on fire before fleeing the scene,” police said in a statement.

The suspect, whom the authorities declined to identify, was remanded in custody after his case was heard at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Sunday and no application was made for bail, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported.

Authorities are investigating whether the synagogue fire was linked to a disturbance on Friday night at an Israeli restaurant in Melbourne, in which one person was arrested for hindering police.

The restaurant was extensively damaged, according to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, an umbrella group for Australia’s Jews.

It said the fire at the synagogue, one of Melbourne’s oldest, was set as those inside sat down to Sabbath dinner.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog went on X to “condemn outright the vile arson attack targeting Jews in Melbourne’s historic and oldest synagogue on the Sabbath, and on an Israeli restaurant where people had come to enjoy a meal together”.

“This is not the first such attack in Australia in recent months. But it must be the last,” Herzog said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incidents as “severe hate crimes” that he viewed “with utmost gravity.” “The State of Israel will continue to stand alongside the Australian Jewish community,” Netanyahu said on X.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese late on Saturday described the alleged arson, which comes seven months after another synagogue in Melbourne was targeted by arsonists, as shocking and said those responsible should face the law’s full force.

“My Government will provide all necessary support toward this effort,” Albanese posted on X.

Homes, schools, synagogues and vehicles in Australia have been targeted by antisemitic vandalism and arson. The incidents included a fake plan by organized crime to attack a Sydney synagogue using a caravan of explosives in order to divert police resources, police said in March.

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