Just in time for the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 2021, the Palestinian Authority commemorated in their own way. It is peculiar that although Holocaust denial is rampant in the Palestinian territories (and more broadly in the Arab world), and PA President Mahmoud Abbas did his PhD dissertation on Holocaust denial, the Holocaust is openly acknowledged when Jews are being condemned and disparaged. Abbas has also stated that the “Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves,” despite denying it altogether.
This is the root of this hatred:
The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
“PA: The Holocaust was Europe repaying Jews for their ‘wickedness,’” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, January 26, 2021:
Just in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow, the Palestinian Authority stressed and repeated its antisemitic views on Jews. In a program on official PA TV, the host taught viewers that the Holocaust was the price the Jews paid for their evil behavior – their “conspiracies and wickedness”:
Official PA TV host: “In this episode, whose title is “Hitler’s Rise to Power in Germany,” we’ll talk about the very sensitive periods between 1929 and 1935. This is the period in which Zionism was diminished and nearly ended and disappeared… The preparations began leading to World War II in Europe, and this is the period in which the Zionist movement paid the price for its conspiracies and wickedness, there in the European states.”
[Official PA TV, From the Israeli Archive, Jan. 23, 2021]
The PA TV program From the Israeli Archive is currently broadcasting parts of an Israeli documentary series from 1981, Pillar of Fire, misinterpreting – and even mistranslating - the original narration so it presents a Palestinian and even antisemitic perspective. The message that Jews’ payment for their “wickedness” was the Holocaust was the PA TV host’s introduction to a segment from an episode about the 1930s and Nazism’s rise to power.
The host’s statement is consistent with PA Antisemitism that Palestinian Media Watch has documented for years, including the PA’s blaming Jews for Antisemitism, among the other antisemitic messages it disseminates.
PA hate speech comes from the top of the PA leadership. It was PA Chairman Abbas himself who explained that Europeans committed massacres against Jews “every 10 to 15 years” for centuries culminating in the Holocaust in response to Jewish behavior. Abbas’ justification for Antisemitism was that “the hatred of the Jews is not due to their religion, but, rather… due to their social role that was connected to usury and banks and so forth.”
Abbas’ Fatah Movement has also produced and published a propaganda video purportedly about Jewish history in Europe, which makes the same claim that Jews brought Antisemitism on themselves. It presents Jews as an evil and threatening force in Europe from which Europeans had to defend themselves. The Jews, Fatah explained, “led the project to enslave humanity” and allied with Nazis to burn Jews “to accumulate wealth.” The Jews themselves established “ghettos in order to separate from other people out of arrogance and disgust for non-Jews.” It was in the ghettos, the documentary further lies that the Jews schemed against the non-Jews, leading to European antisemitism: “[Jews] were hated because of their racism and their filthy behavior.”
In addition to Abbas himself disseminating Antisemitism, some of his senior appointees likewise spread hatred of Jews. Mahmoud Al-Habbash, whom Abbas has appointed as his personal advisor on Islam, has taught that the Palestinian conflict with Israel is essentially Islam’s historic conflict against Jews because they are Satan’s ally, spreading evil and falsehood. Israel, because it is a Jewish state, is “Satan’s project.”
The religious figure who Abbas appointed as head of an entire school system taught that Jews are responsible for all conflicts on earth and even in the sea: “Humanity will never live in peace or fortune or tranquility as long as they are corrupting the land…. If a fish in the sea fights with another fish, I am sure the Jews are behind it.” According to this PA message, Jews’ existence is a fundamental threat to all humanity.
At times, the PA has explicitly promoted the horrific conclusion: The Jewish threat to humanity will be stopped only by exterminating all Jews…
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“The religious figure who Abbas appointed as head of an entire school system taught…If a fish in the sea fights with another fish, I am sure the Jews are behind it.””
I think that this “religious figure” has a bit of a credibility issue…
mortimer says
Yes, in many hadith legends wherein Muslims are disgraced or defeated, there is a Jew plotting to trick the Muslims. Oh, those CRAFTY Jews … why do Muslims fall into their ingenious traps every single time??
Felix Katz says
From all this, why does anybody want to be Muslim, I’d rather be a Jew………………..???
Felix Katz says
Doe this have something to do with in-breeding…………???
Giacomo Latta says
By emphasizing the arbitrary opinion in the koran that Jews are responsible for one’s misfortunes we wind up with the bottomless paranoia that includes your fish statement, the Jews made that traffic light turn red early and other lunacy.
Wellington says
In microcosm, highly instructive of how warped and screwed up the Islamic faith is.
When a person is exculpating the Nazis for what they did to Jews, you know or should know that you are dealing with a highly deficient human being.
Compounding all this Islamic idiocy (excuse the redundancy) is that the Islamic world (and what a woeful world it is in so many ways) approves of the Holocaust while at the same time, per many Mohammedans, denying it occurred in the first place.
Ah, with Islam-think, anything is possible, even diametrically opposed ideas (helps explain Averroes’ double truth, but I digress)—and just part, but only part, of why I am utterly, totally, completely sick of Islam—all of it. So much so that if even it is the true faith (which it isn’t and I would bet my very life on this), then God is a jerk and we live in a very warped and scary universe.
Any deity who would choose a brutal, narcissistic psychopath like Mohammed as this deity’s “last and greatest of the prophets” is a deity that deserves defiance and, a la Prometheus, never be submitted to—indeed opposed by all that portion of mankind who are wiser and decenter than Allah—not at all a hard thing to do. And I send this message to ALL Muslims: Allah sucks even if existent—yeah, grasp this.
It is my hypothesis that, looked at just from a statistical and probability point of view, mankind would develop major religions that were very decent in their ethical theory, subtle too in many instances, and at least one that would be inimical to the best that mankind can achieve.
This is actually what happened—Judaism and Christianity produced an ethic which is laudable and which works very well with the democratic tenets first invented by the ancient Greeks; Hinduism and Buddhism are certainly subtle, as are Christianity and Judaism, but their deficiency is that they don’t prize the individual as much as Christianity and Judaism do, though this is a minor, not major, criticism, and I have little to no doubt that Buddhism and Hinduism can “adapt” to democracy—a la Churchill, the worst form of government with the exception of every other form of government.
And then there is Islam. How wretched it is. It is a mortal enemy of liberty, equality under the law, true women’s rights (this one is a no-brainer), overall graciousness, opposed to a true Golden Rule for all, incapable of admitting error, et al. In other words, Islam is the oldest and still existing totalitarian ideology and all those defending it, whether Muslim or dhimmi, are not to be listened to in the sense that such people might be providing truth, but only listened to in the sense that they stand as evidence of the capacity of man to engage in monumental error by way of excusing malevolent thought and practice.
Sorry to go on so long but my blood was up. And I am absolutely convinced, no doubt whatsoever, that if mankind is to advance (N.B., right now it is retreating due not only to the current approbation of Islam by clueless human beings but also because of traditional authoritarianism being revived in such countries as Russia and China and because of the newest totalitarian idiocy harming mankind, i.e., Western Leftism) the heinousness and absurdity of Islam must be recognized once and for all as one of the greatest errors in all of human history. As long as Islam is given respect, our entire species is in jeopardy. Count on it.
b.a. freeman says
wow. *EXCELLENT* post, Wellington … what U said!
+1
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Spot on, Wellington!
gravenimage says
Official PA TV: ‘Holocaust was the price Jews paid for their evil behavior…conspiracies and wickedness’
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These are the only circumstances under which the “Palestinian” Muslims will admit that the Holocaust happened.
More:
“…If a fish in the sea fights with another fish, I am sure the Jews are behind it.”
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This just shows how unhinged this Muslim hatred of Jews is. Note that they can’t actually point to anything that Jews did that was wrong. But then, when have pious Muslims ever needed proof of anything?
God, I hate Islam.
Clive Delmonte says
Dr Abbass evidently graduated from some mickey-mouse university. There are hundreds of Holocaust survivors still alive and US Generals Marshall and Eisenhower visited at least one concentration camp themselves when their troops liberated it.
When will Dr Abbass change his psychotherapist ?
Proud Islamophobe says
They think they do what they do in the name of G-d, but it is a fact that islam both plagiarizes and distorts the Bible because ‘allah’ is actually Satan. We know this because sharia law is the antithesis of the Torah. In Satan’s retaliation against G-d for throwing him out of Heaven, Satan hates everything that G-d created and wants to damn as many souls to hell as he can. he does this in part by concocting thousands of religions with thousands of gods to distract them from G-d’s plan of redemption (The Christ). Because islamic doctrine forbids belief in The Christ, they *choose* to reject G-d’s grace, and so be judged by the law (Romans 2:12). Therefore, whatever moslems do to others will be done to them (be it throwing acid in people’s faces, setting them on fire, torturing animals and humans alike, all of which are living souls [i.e. have a soul] according to the Bible). So wait until these incarnate demons see what *their* evil is going to bring to *them*…
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Obadiah 15 – “As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.”
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Habakkuk 2:8 – “Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,”
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James 2:13 – “For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy.”
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Matthew 7:2 – “For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
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2 Chronicles 6:23 – “… bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing his way on his own head…”
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Joel 3:4 – “Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against Me, Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head;”
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Ezekiel 35:6 – “therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.”
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Romans 12:19 – Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
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I cannot imagine their mental and emotional anguish on Judgment Day when they learn the truth.
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Last but not least, in reference to the Holocaust, it was actually a divine judgment. It is found in Deuteronomy 28 under “Curses for Disobedience.” Deuteronomy 28:47-63.