PMW Bulletin

June 17, 2012

PA children taught to hate
Jews and Christians

PA TV rebroadcasts:
Christians and Jews are "inferior" and "despised"
"Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6983

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.palwatch.org

Palestinian Authority TV chose to rebroadcast a program featuring a little
girl reciting a hate poem targeting Jews and Christians as "inferior and
smaller, more cowardly and despised." It was broadcast in May and again this
month.

Click to view
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=763&fld_id=763&doc_id=6898

In addition, Palestinian Media Watch reported last month that in April, PA
TV broadcast a young girl reciting a poem that included the words: "Our
enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail." One month later, PA TV broadcast an even
younger girl reciting the poem with the same hate speech, adding that the
child had already recited it at the opening of a Palestinian exhibition of
educational tools.

Click to view latest broadcast of "Satan with a tail"-poem
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=763&fld_id=763&doc_id=6980

Click to view first broadcast of "Satan with a tail"-poem
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=763&fld_id=763&doc_id=6774
Palestinian Media Watch has documented that hate speech and demonization of
Israel and Jews is common in the PA and the structures under its control.

The following are the transcripts of the poems recited on PA TV:

Jews and Christians as "inferior and smaller, more cowardly and despised"
PA TV host: "You are going to recite a poem, which also teaches us
responsibility and belonging."
Girl: "... The occupier stole my land and my grandfathers' land...
Where is your sword, Khaled (Arab warrior)?
Where is your courage, Saladin (Muslim conqueror)?
But no one answered me.
Where is my weapon? I found it - a stone. I took it and threw it at the
enemies of destiny. I taught the world that the Muslim in the name of Allah
cannot be defeated...
They challenge us with the White House, and we challenge them with the
[Islamic] awakening and the Kaaba [in Mecca]. They aren't stronger than
Khosrau and Caesar (rulers of Persian and Byzantine Empires).
They [Christians and Jews] are inferior and smaller, more cowardly and
despised. They are remnants of the [Christian] crusaders and Khaibar (i.e.,
Jewish village destroyed by Muslims in 629)...
Oh Muslims of the world: Awaken, you have slept too long.
Your fathers and your sons are being massacred, your Al-Aqsa [Mosque] is
defiled and destroyed."
Host: "Bravo! Applause for our friend Lara."
[PA TV (Fatah), May 11 and June 2, 2012]

"Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail." (1)
Host: "Lina, how did you participate in the exhibition [of educational
tools]?"
Lina: "I recited a poem."
Host: "A poem."
Co-host: "Lina opened the exhibition."
Lina: "When I was young, I was taught that Arabness is my honor...
and that our lands extend from one end to the other,
and that our wars were for the Al-Aqsa Mosque,
and that our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail..."
[PA TV (Fatah), May 8, 2012]

"Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail." (2)
Host: "Laila, what do you want to recite next?"
Laila: "When I was young I was taught that Arabness is my honor...
and that our lands extend from one end to the other,
and that our wars were for the Al-Aqsa Mosque,
and that our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail...
Our division is by your hands [Arab rulers]. May your hands be cut off.
We are fed up with our division, while all people are uniting."
Host: "Bravo, bravo, bravo."
[PA TV (Fatah), April 7, 2012]