Antisemitism in the Arab world: Difference between revisions

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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 [[hormone]]s 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 [[HIV]].” ([[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]])

=== The [[Palestinian Authority]]'s view of Jews ===

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* "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 [[August 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.[[September 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 massacre of the Jews." The book is entitled <u>The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement</u>, and uses the statements of German Jewish Zionists who supported Hitler to suggest that they supported the Nazis, and thus [[the Holocaust]]. The book also claims that the Nazis may have really killed less than one million Jews, and that the rest were killed by Soviets. (Jerusalem Post, Jan. 26,1995)