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The NEW Anti-Semitism
...an End Time Factor?
Palestinian TV carries 'blatant
anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying' broadcast
By israelinsider staff and partners
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on Palestinian Authority Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas to fire the Head of Palestinian TV, after a televised
sermon called Jews "a spreading cancer."
"The Jews are the cancer spreading all over the world... the Jews are
responsible for all wars and conflicts," Sheikh Ibrahim Mudairis said
Friday during a sermon from his Gaza Mosque in the presence of uniformed
Palestinian police.
"Do not ask what Germany did to the Jews, but what the Jews did to
Germany," he went on to say. "True the Germans killed and burnt Jews,
but the Jews exaggerate the numbers to gain propaganda advantages and
sympathy."
In a stinging press release, the Center's Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier and
Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper said the broadcast came days before
Abbas's scheduled meeting with President Bush and during the week
commemorating 60 years since the Nazis' defeat.
"Even in the days of Arafat, we did not see such a blatant anti-Semitic
and Holocaust-denying canard broadcast on Palestinian TV, whose current
chief was personally appointed by Abu Mazen (Abbas)," the two said in a
press release following the incident.
Both Cooper and Hier have demanded Abbas inform Bush that the head of
the Palestinian Broadcasting Company, and all those associated with the
broadcast of this "big lie," have been fired, in their upcoming meeting.
"Is this genocidal sermon the kind of peace dividend that the people of
Israel can look forward to?" they said.
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