Antisemitism, terror lauding ministers form part of new, 'revitalized' Palestinian Authority
Antisemitism, terror lauding ministers form part of new, 'revitalized' Palestinian Authority
New expose by PMW reveals new officials’ history of vile antisemitic rhetoric and commendation of terrorist murderers
By Ohad Merlin | April 1, 2024
As part of its fulfillment of the US demand for a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority, a new Palestinian government was only just sworn in Ramallah following the resignation of the prior one. However, a new expose by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) showcases how PA “revitalization” featured at least two new ministers who indulge in religious incitement to terror and the demonization of Jews.
The PMW expose reveals racist and inciteful quotes made by two of new Palestinian ministers: Minister of Women’s Affairs Muna Al-Khalili and Minister of Religious Affairs, Muhammad Mustafa Najem.
Al-Khalili,former Chairwoman of the PLO’s General Union of Palestinian Women, is quoted in the expose as praising terrorist Dalal Al-Mughrabi who shot and murdered 37 Israelis in a terror attack against a civilian bus during the 70s, lauding Hamas’s October 7th massacre as a method of resistance, and holding a vigil honoring terrorists who murdered dozens of Israelis during the second intifada as “heroic prisoners”.
As for new Minister for Religious Affairs, Muhammad Mustafa Najem, the expose showed how he repeatedly spewed antisemitic rhetoric against Jews as a former preacher, condemning the alleged characterization of Jews by “conceit, pride, arrogance, rioting, disloyalty, and treachery” and referring to Jews with the popular Islamist antisemitic depiction of being “apes and pigs”.
PMW chair, Itamar Marcus, called on Israel and the United States, which has led the call for a “revitalized” PA, to demand that Najem and Al-Khalili and any other terror supporters in the new PA government be immediately replaced, adding “If the previous PA terror-supporting government is replaced by a new terror-supporting government, the PA is making a mockery of the US demand for “revitalization.”
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