PMW is “dangerous for the Jews,” says Official PA Daily
Excerpt of a column by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Palestinian Media Watch’s hostility to the truth and its way of action that is dangerous for the Jews”
“The Zionist way of action, which caused problems for the Jews in Europe and the Western states in particular and in the world in general, still rules; turning the facts upside down or emptying them of their true, logical, and correct meaning, and presenting them as an injustice, in addition to the attempt to replace the connections of peace between the peoples and states with [connections of] occupation and settlement and to impose them by force and state terror, are still the preferred method for a great majority of Israeli society, which supports this destructive way of action. These same people are still captive to the thought that the world believes their arguments and comparisons, after states and institutions in the world were bound by chains designed in the form of laws under the title ‘Antisemitism’…
We think that the Israeli organization ‘Palestinian Media Watch’ (PMW) is an outrageous example of what we mentioned above…
This organization compared the Palestinian Salfit district’s decision to ban the import of products from the settlements and their sale in the Palestinian places of business, and also to remove the Hebrew writing on signs in workshops and stores, to what happened to the Jewish citizens of Germany in the period of Nazism. It turned to Israeli society with the following words: ‘Remember the signs in Nazi Germany saying “Jews not allowed” at the entrance to some shops?’ …
It is our right to use all means to defend our existence, our economy, and the lives of the Palestinian civilians. This organization [PMW], which is carrying out terror directed against the Jews of Israel and constitutes a serious danger for them, does not affect us, other than that it contributes to spreading complete hostility [against the Palestinians] among its society, by misappropriating and exploiting the suffering caused at the time to the Jewish residents of Germany by their racist Nazi ruler. Regarding the settlers, we do not care about their religion, but rather about them being elements in an invading, colonialist, and occupying army. The owners of this organization [PMW] know well that we have no hatred for Jews due to them being Jews, but rather we are fighting to restore our public and private land, which their [occupation] system government and their political parties have stolen, expelled its owners, and given it to the settlers so that they will establish bases on it that are expected to be civilian, but in truth they are bases of terror, murder, and taking control of the rights and livelihood of the other. These crimes have no precedent except in the Middle Ages.”