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| Holocaust denial and distortion |
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| Holocaust denial |
Holocaust desecration, denial, and abuse, are all components of Palestinian Authority ideology. A PA TV children’s broadcast taught that Israel burned Palestinians in ovens, and at an exhibit in Gaza children put dolls in a model oven adorned with a Star of David and a swastika. A senior Palestinian academic taught adults on PA TV: “There was no
Dachau, no Auschwitz; these were disinfecting sites.” A Hamas TV documentary explained that it was Jewish leaders who planned the Holocaust, in order to eliminate Jews who were "disabled and handicapped”.
A crossword puzzle clue in the official PA daily identified “Yad Vashem” (Israel’s Holocaust memorial) as a “Center for the Holocaust and Lies.” The same PA daily has published many articles denying the Holocaust, including one that termed the Holocaust a “hen laying golden eggs.”
Schoolbooks produced by the Palestinian Ministry of Education teach the history of World War II in great detail except for the history of the Holocaust, which is totally ignored. One history book goes so far as to teach that Nazism was a racist ideology and that there were trials of Nazi war criminals, but it leaves out that Jews were the target of the racism, and the crimes for which the Nazis were on trial.
Palestinian education erases the actual Holocaust from history and usurps the word “Holocaust” for its own wide range of malicious libels.
This video depicts a PA TV children’s play teaching that Israel burned Palestinians in ovens.
"They [Israel] are the ones who did the Holocaust,
their knife cuts to the length and the width of our flesh...
They opened ovens for us, to bake human beings.
They destroyed the villages and burnt the cities.
And when an oven stops burning, they light a hundred [more] ovens.
Their hands are covered with the blood of our children."
[PA TV (Fatah), March 25, 2004]
The following are more examples of Palestinian Authority Holocaust desecration, denial, and abuse:
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PA daily belittles the Holocaust: Israel "milked" Germany for Holocaust restitutions
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 24, 2012
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Headline: “Arab-Jewish refugees! Go back to your homelands”
“I wish the UN would decide that every refugee would go back to his original homeland, and then the Palestinian refugee, who is still called “Palestinian” [would return] to Palestine, and the Jewish Iraqi or Moroccan, for example, would also return to Iraq or Morocco. As far as restitution, the Arabs won’t be milked like Israel has milked Germany.” |
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Positive report in PA daily: Senior PA official visits Auschwitz and acknowledges the Holocaust
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 28, 2012
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Headline: "Al-Bandak visits Auschwitz camp”
"A high-level senior Palestinian official yesterday visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi camp in southern Poland. This was the first visit of its kind to the site that symbolizes the Holocaust. According to an Agence France-Presse photographer, advisor to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Ziad Al-Bandak laid a wreath at the Wall of Death, where the Nazis executed thousands of victims. Al-Bandak also visited the gas chambers where Jews brought from all parts of Europe were put to death. The visit was private in nature, and Al-Bandak did not deliver any official statement. The Auschwitz camp, established by Nazi Germany in 1940 in the southern part of occupied Poland, remains a symbol of the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust, in which 1.1 million people were annihilated, among them one million Jews."
[The mistaken figure should read that a million Jews died at Auschwitz alone, as noted in the English version of the AFP article: “Of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, 1,1 million were murdered at the site, mostly in its gas chambers.”]
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PA daily article: World Zionism exaggerated the story of the Holocaust
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Source:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 19, 2012
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Headline: "That which needs to be said"
"That which needs to be said – under that heading, German writer Günter Grass wrote a poem that raised a storm, the responses to which have not yet died down... As regards Palestine, he said: 'Israel must withdraw not only from Hebron and from Beit-El, but also from Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Nazareth.' [PMW has been unable to find any reference to the alleged statement by Gunter Grass that Israel should withdraw from Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.] The moment Grass published his poem, at the beginning of the month, world Zionism enlisted its propaganda machine to attack him… He was accused, as usual, of Antisemitism, and mention was made of his youth, when he was a co-pilot in the Second World War.
… For a long time, world Zionism has succeeded in blocking any German opinion, whether on the official level or on the popular level, which might cause slight harm to Israel. It is aided in this by its exaggeration of the story of the Holocaust, which it has transformed into a complex by means of which it silences the Germans…"
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UNRWA workers "adamantly opposed" to Holocaust education that will "confuse the thinking" of children
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 14, 2011
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Headline: "The [UNRWA Workers'] Union emphasized its opposition to teaching the Holocaust of the Jews as part of the curriculum in the [UNRWA] Agency's schools..."
"The [UNRWA] Workers' Union emphasized its adamant opposition to teaching the Holocaust of the Jews within the educational curriculum of UNRWA schools, as part of the topic of human rights. The union said, 'We emphasize our adamant opposition to confusing the thinking of our students' by means of Holocaust studies in the human rights study curriculum, and emphasize study of the history of Palestine and the acts of massacre which have been carried out against Palestinians, the most recent of which was the war against Gaza.'
[Union chairman, Suheil] Al-Hindi, explained to France Press, that UNRWA 'approved teaching the Holocaust...' but [the teaching] has not yet started."
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PA daily: The Holocaust "for more than 60 years has aroused ... controversy and fabrication"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 4, 2011
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In response to rumors that UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency) is planning to introduce Holocaust education into the Palestinian UNRWA-run schools, Palestinian dailies have publicized strong opposition to teaching Palestinian children about the Holocaust. Daily columnist in official PA daily:
"The Jewish Holocaust is a story about which there is great controversy... a subject that for more than 60 years has aroused a great amount of controversy and fabrication."
"UNRWA... is absolutely prohibited from dealing with political issues."
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PA daily: Study of the Holocaust in Palestinian UNRWA-run schools is "disgraceful"
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Source:
Al-Quds, Mar. 1, 2011
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Muhammad Abu Bakr, deputy head of PLO Department for Refugees:
"[If] UNRWA has introduced studies on the Holocaust, or what is known by that name... it would be a deviation by UNRWA from its commitments and the understandings between itself and the host countries, and this would be a precedent which cannot be ignored... It is unthinkable that we would lead our refugee children in opposing directions."
Nabila Al-Saleh, member of Committee for Defense of the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan:
"Study of the Holocaust in UNRWA schools is disgraceful."
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PA schoolbooks: WWII without a Holocaust
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History of the Arabs and the World in the 20th Century, grade 12, p. 147, Sept. 1, 2009
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Palestinian schoolbooks discuss in great historical detail the events of World War II, but in all of the PA history texts the Holocaust is ignored as if it never happened. It is clear that PA educators made an active decision to leave the Holocaust out of history. The newest PA history book The History of the Arabs and the World in the 20th Century (Grade 12), sets forth the military and the political events of the Second World War; it cites Nazi racist ideology and restrictions placed on "inferior" non-Aryan nations, and even describes the post-war trials of "senior Nazi leaders as war criminals.” But it makes no mention of the Holocaust or of Jews, nor does it mention the crimes for which the war criminals were on trial. Teaching the history of the Second World War in detail without mentioning the Holocaust, persecution of Jews, or the genocide is a very efficient form of Holocaust denial. The Holocaust is simply expunged from history.
Click on FULL ARTICLE to read the schoolbook texts that bypass the Holocaust.
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Hamas refuses to include Holocaust in UN curriculum
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Source:
Al-Ayyam, Aug. 31, 2009
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Headline: "Gaza: Activists accuse UNRWA of attempting to teach about Jewish Holocaust in curriculum for human rights"
"Director of the education department of the aid agency [UNRWA], Mahmoud Al-Hamdiat, denied that there was any intention on the part of the agency to teach material on the subject of the Holocaust...
Activists protecting the rights of Palestinian refugees accused UNRWA of an attempt to teach about the Jewish Holocaust in the human rights curriculum. The activists, representing the Hamas people's committees of the various districts of the Gaza Strip, expressed their anger in the face of this development. They demanded the removal of this material from the 8th grade human rights curriculum.
Coordinator of the people's committees in the Gaza Strip, Hussam Ahmad, told Al-Ayyam that the scientific material included in the curriculum was formulated in a manner favorable towards the Jews... Ahmad warned of a trend towards creating a generation that shows sympathy towards the Jews and towards [concerning] the Holocaust. He stated that the refugees' committees would continue to carry out various activities to deter the agency from its decision.
It should be noted that the peoples' committees of the refugees in the Gaza Strip sent a memorandum to [director of UNRWA operations, John] Ging, demanding the deletion of the subject of the Jewish Holocaust from the human rights study material for 8th grade."
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"In all of Europe there weren't 6 million Jews"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 17, 2009
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Abd Al-Rahman Abbad, Secretary General of the [Palestinian] Organization of Clerics and Disseminators of Islam:
"[Jews] exaggerate every action that other [nations] do against any Jew in the world. In this context is the Holocaust issue, which the whole world still [deals with]. There is a place [in Israel] called "Memorial for Holocaust and Heroism," which tells of the killing of 6 million Jews, but it is known that in all of Europe there weren't 6 million Jews." Click here to view
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Holocaust a Zionist fabrication
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Al-Dustour (Jordan), May 14, 2009
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| "Come over here [to Gaza], Pope of the Vatican! Come and see the tragedy of the Palestinian people, instead of going to the Western Wall, instead of going to the so-called Holocaust [museum] - of the fabricated Zionist Holocaust." |
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PA TV: "So-called memory" of Holocaust victims
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 12, 2009
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| "Various groups in Israel expressed their disappointment at the speech delivered yesterday by Pope Benedict XVI at the Yad Vashem Institute for the commemoration of the so-called memory of those who died in the Nazi Holocaust." |
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Jews exaggerate the Holocaust for world sympathy
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), May 13, 2005
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Ibrahim Mudayris, Official, PA Ministry of Religious Trusts and Religious Affairs:
"In the Nazi war, possibly some [Jews] were killed, possibly some were burned, but they're exaggerating [the Holocaust] in order to win over world media, and world sympathy." Click here to view |
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Palestinian article: "Marketing Ashes"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 13, 2001
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This article, entitled "Marketing Ashes" and defining the Holocaust as a "fable," appeared just days before Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day in the official Palestinian daily.
“Zionist propaganda has converted [the Holocaust] into a means to produce political and economic benefit... The figure of six million Jews cremated in the Nazi Auschwitz camps is a lie for propaganda... Has this hen, which lays golden eggs for the Jews everywhere, reached its expiration date? ... When Zionism cannot find an enemy to separate and repel the Jews, it invents such an enemy; and so was the case with the Holocaust.” |
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"Great" Europeans include Holocaust deniers, Nazi officer
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 6, 2001
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This Palestinian daily described a paper of a research center which gives prominence and support to "great" Europeans who withstood the lies of "world Zionism." This list of Europeans includes two prominent Holocaust deniers, a Nazi officer in World War Two and the leader of an extremist right wing political party.
"The Zaid center . . . published a new research paper titled: 'These are the people who challenged Israel in the last 50 years.' This research surveys the honored. . . European leaders, politicians, and thinkers - against world Zionism and Israel....
Five of the most famous personalities who were known for their opposition to the Zionist pressure: the French leader Charles de Gaulle, past general secretary of the UN and the president of Austria, Kurt Waldheim [a Nazi officer] and the famous English historian David Irving [a Holocaust denier], the new Austrian leader Jorg Heider and the writer and thinker Frenchman Roger Grudie [a Holocaust denier].
...The center points out at the beginning of the paper which was defined as an historical paper for the Arab reader, and in it a thanks, appreciation and recognition to these people and others, among those who defend the rights and justice in the world." |
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Auschwitz and Dachau were "cleansing sites"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Nov. 29, 2000
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Dr. Issam Sissalem, history lecturer, Islamic University Gaza, Palestinian expert on Jews and Judaism, appearing on PA TV educational program "Pages From Our History":
"Lies surfaced about Jews being murdered here and there, and the Holocaust. And of course these are all lies and unfounded claims. There was no Dachau, no Auschwitz! [They] were cleansing sites... They began to publicize in their propaganda media that they were persecuted, murdered and exterminated... Committees acted here and there to establish this entity [Israel- Ed.], this foreign entity, implanted as a cancer in our country, where our fathers lived, where we live, and where our children after us will live. They always portrayed themselves as victims, and they made a Center for Heroism and Holocaust. Whose heroism? What Holocaust? It is our nation which is heroic, the holocaust was against our people... We were the victims, but we shall not remain victims forever." Click here to view |
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Exaggeration of Jewish Holocaust "has exceeded all limits"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 19, 2000
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| "Many of the enlightened and the politicians of Europe and America have already been disgusted by the extortion of the Jews and it is quite clear that they have a deep tendency to be free of the yoke of memory which is mixed with terror, especially after it has been known that the Jewish explanation exaggerating the Holocaust, has exceeded all limits and reached a level of imagination of things that could never happen." |
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Libel: Holocaust a fable utilized to win empathy
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 2, 1998
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"The winds blew in their favor, when the persecution against them by the Nazi Hitler started, and when what Hitler did to them was stronger than their programs and the international Jewish media that were under their control, they exploited it in the best possible way, and the show began. They began to distribute horrific pictures of mass shooting being committed against them and to fabricate the shocking story about gas ovens, [in] which, according to their claims, Hitler would burn them [the Jews]. Newspaper columns began to fill with pictures of Jews being cut down by Hitler's machine guns, and of Jews being led to the gas ovens. In these pictures they concentrated on women, children and the elderly. And they took advantage of this in order to arouse empathy towards them, while they demanded monetary compensation, grants and contributions from all over the world. The truth is that the persecution of the Jews is a false fable that the Jews called the disaster of the "Holocaust."
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And although it is possible that Hitler's attack against the Jews hurt them slightly, it also clearly served them to the point where even today they reap its benefits. This was the front door to winning American and European support and realizing their dream and their plans. " |
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Abbas: Story of 6 million cremated Jews is propaganda
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The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism, by Mahmoud Abbas, Feb. 15, 1984
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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s thesis, "The Other Side: The Secret Relations between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement" (Translation by Wiesenthal Center):
"Having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner -- suffering victims in a battle -- it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting…
It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement...is to inflate this figure so that their gains will be greater. This led them to emphasize this figure in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions -- fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand."
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