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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “It is not possible, if we are objective, to call the human Israeli component a ‘nation’. There never existed a Jewish nation nor a nation of Israel. They [Europeans] invented this issue in order to...”

Fatah official Fatah Tubas Branch Secretary Mahmoud Sawafta:“The blood of the Martyrs is what draws the map of the homeland, the map of Palestine – Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, Lod, Ramle (i.e., all Israeli cities), the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the capital Jerusalem. Their blood is our compass, and...”

Official PA TV commentator Iyad Abu Zneit: “We [Palestinians] are first of all Canaanites, and therefore we have been in this land for many years... The Israelis are the ones who need to return to the lands they came from, lands throughout the world. Israel by its very nature is a foreign element...”

PA Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Director of Historical Sites Dirgham Al-Fares: “The Palestinian people today is a continuation of the original residents from the Stone Age… There was no monotheistic religion throughout the Iron Age. The Jewish religion formulated during the period of...”

Images of cities are shown while a song is played at the end of the program. Lyrics: “Acre, Gaza, and Be’er Sheva, cities full of blessing Nablus, its antiquities pulsate, its glory is mentioned in history These are the famous districts of Palestine… Ramallah, Ramle, and El-Bireh, Their lands are...”

Palestinian Council denounces Israel’s efforts to “erase” Jerusalem’s history, vowing “unity and resistance” against “Judaization”

Hussein calls for filling the Temple Mount on arson anniversary, accusing Israel of “Judaization” and “plotting” Temple construction

Khouri: Jews burned Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Israel prevented from extinguishing the fire

Ignoring over 200 Jewish Nobel Prize winners, Hmeid claims Jews “did not leave an idea, voice, or imprint”

PA President denies Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, saying it is all Islamic

Fatah-run Awdah TV narrator: “The Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) is the southern part of the western wall of the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount), whose length is approximately 47 meters and whose height is approximately 17 meters. The Jews never used...”

By Alan Rosenbaum While the Abraham Accords have led to many peaceful exchanges and a lessening of antisemitism, within the Palestinian Authority, the scourge of antisemitism is flourishing unabated... What are the root causes of antisemitism in Palestinian society, and how does it impact prospects...

Abu Saif claims the PA’s job is to “debunk the false Zionist perceptions and claims”

PA calls Jewish visits “invasion”

Al-Hadmi: The Israeli government is preparing to “establish the alleged Temple in place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque”

Official PA TV program Capital of Capitals, on the Western Wall Official PA TV host: This site will remain the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount), to which only the Muslims have a right. Not as the occupation claims in its mistaken Zionist narrative that this is the Wailing...

Official PA TV host: "This site will remain the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall), to which only the Muslims have a right. Not as the occupation claims in its mistaken Zionist narrative that this is the Wailing Wall. And it will return to its original state when the transient settlers leave…..."

Israeli Arab film director Marwah Jabara Tibi: “In general the talk about refugeehood and the right of return has been limited to how the camera is placed in the refugee camps. Here we show you the Abu Ghada family, in 17 countries, what you could call ‘five-star refugees,’ and despite this they...”

“Liberating Palestine from the Zionist rule… passes through liberating the history of Palestine,” writes Barhoum

Palestinian researcher Muhammad Al-Yahya: “The Jews are arrogant by nature. They don’t accept the other. They always stick to themselves. The Europeans hated them and wanted to get rid of them, and therefore one of the interests of the European states… was to get rid of the Jews, so the idea...”

PLO Central Council member Ghassan Barakat: “As part of the Jewish question in Europe, there was racial discrimination and Antisemitism there. The Jewish communities controlled the money in these states, and the Jewish communities also were spread throughout all of Europe and created a kind of...”

Official PA TV narrator: “The illegal (sic.) immigration of the Jews to Palestine: The beginning of the illegal immigration to Palestine was in 1837... The Jewish immigration to the land of Palestine continued as part of a colonialist Zionist plan led by the world powers at the time… But history...”

Director of the National Action Committee in Jerusalem Muhammad Jadallah: “The false Israeli narrative, the alleged Jewish Israeli narrative, that they have relics in this city [of Jerusalem] – [None] of them for dozens of years have succeeded in finding [even] a tiny bit that belongs to them from...”

PA high official denies Jewish and Roman history in Hebron, claiming “those who are not Muslims have no right” to the Cave of the Patriarchs

Habbash denies Jewish history in Jerusalem, saying the Temple Mount along with all its plazas, yards, and the Western Wall “is a pure Islamic heritage”