One columnist claims Israel commits crimes against Palestinian civilians who are “victims” like the Jews “in Hitler’s Nazi detention camps.”

By Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch

Three Palestinian journalists have repeated the PA libel that Israel is doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews during the Holocaust.

During a broadcast that looked back on the Fatah/Hamas riot and rocket war of 2021, during which Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets into southern and central Israel and Israeli Arabs rioted and attacked Jews throughout the country, journalist Ziyad Abd Al-Fattah stated that Israel is committing “acts of cruelty that are worse than the cruelty of the Nazis”:

“You filled the world with screams about how you are the victims of Nazism, that they persecuted you all around the world, and so on and so forth… Since Beirut (i.e., the First Lebanon War) to this moment, I see you committing against the Palestinians acts of cruelty that are worse than the cruelty of the Nazis.” [Official PA TV, 11 Days, Oct. 18, 2021]

A few weeks later another Palestinian journalist, Ahmed Issa, echoed this, claiming that Israel is doing “worse things” than was done to the Jews in the Holocaust:

Palestinian journalist Ahmed Issa: “Now the true face of this [Zionist] project is being revealed. When this state was established, the international community identified with it as if it were an answer to the Holocaust, or [as if] it saves the Jews worldwide from massacres. Now it is committing worse things against the Palestinians.” [Official PA TV, Personal Encounter, Nov. 12, 2021]

Commenting on a hunger-striking Hamas-affiliated prisoner, regular columnist for the official PA daily and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muwaffaq Matar claimed Israel is imitating the Nazi atrocities. Matar argued that Palestinian diplomats and students abroad ought to show the hunger striking prisoner’s photo “with his skin hanging from his bones” to foreign ministry officials and fellow students – particularly Jewish ones:

“It would be good if they deliberately placed them [the pictures] before the eyes of Jewish students and civilians in those lands; perhaps that would remind them of the pictures of their ancestors in Hitler’s Nazi detention camps, and they would understand that ‘Israel’ – whose rulers claim… that it is an oasis of democracy in the desert of dictatorships in the region – is continuing to repeat this crime, but [this time] the victims are Palestinian civilians.” [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 4, 2021]

While the Nazis intentionally caused Jews to starve to death, the terrorist Miqdad Al-Qawasmi is suffering from the effects of a self-inflicted hunger strike. As part of his hunger strike, Al-Qawasmi is refusing both food and medical attention. Al-Qawasmi is protesting his administrative detention. Article 78 of the Fourth Geneva Convention provides unequivocal legal basis for Israel’s practice of detaining terrorists in order to thwart the severe danger they pose to society. In practice, the measures and legal framework Israel implements for terrorists such as Al-Qawasmi, far exceeds the minimum requirements set out in international law.

Palestinian Media Watch has documented the PA’s libel that Israel imitates Nazi crimes, as well as the PA’s equation of Israel and Israeli leaders to Nazism and Nazi leaders, and how the PA repeatedly uses Nazi terminology to demonize Israel.