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July 6, 2015
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Palestinian
Cleric Delivers Anti-Semitic Sermon, Incites Violence Against Jews
by IPT News • Jul 6, 2015 at 9:39
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Another Palestinian cleric conducted a blatantly anti-Semitic sermon and
incited violence against Jews, the Middle East Monitoring Research Service
(MEMRI) reports.
Preaching from al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Khaled Al-Maghrabi cited an
infamous verse, or hadith, in the Qu'ran which encourages killing
Jews.
"...we know, from the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad, that
at the End of Time, there will be a war between us and the Israelites in
the Holy Land. In that war, the trees sand stones will speak. They will
say: 'Oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him!,"
Al-Maghrabi said during a sermon posted on the Internet on June 16 and
translated by MEMRI.
Al-Maghrabi is part of the Palestinian Authority's Waqf, or religious
authority, and receives government pay. Last month, the Simon Wiesenthal
Center called on PA President Mahmoud Abbas to denounce
separate remarks by al-Maghrabi and terminate his pay. In a lecture posted
online, al-Maghrabi repeated the "blood libel" that Jews use the
blood of children to make matzoh.
In the June sermon, he describes how "the Koran says that Allah is
angry with them [the Jews], and that He cursed them and transformed them
into apes and pigs ... the Koran exposes their true nature."
He also advised the "Israelites" to "get out of the
occupied Holy Land" if they do not convert to Islam.
"Your return and presence in this land is a violation of Allah's
command. For this violation, there will be a terrible and painful
punishment by Allah. There will be destruction."
This latest radical sermon is just one example of many featuring
extremist Palestinian clerics delivering anti-Semitic lectures that incite
violence against Jews and Israelis.
It remains to be seen whether the U.S. administration will apply
sufficient pressure on the Palestinian Authority to crackdown on these
recurring extremist sermons. A recently released State Department report on
terrorism worldwide minimizes official Palestinian incitement to violence
against Israel and entirely omits any reference to Palestinian
glorification of terrorists.
The report actually praises the PA for taking "significant steps to
ensure that official institutions in the West Bank that fall under its
control do not create content that leads to incitement to violence."
The report acknowledges that "some instances of inciting taking place
via official media" still occur, listing only three examples. However,
the report diminishes the fact that incitement to violence is a systematic
and institutionalized PA phenomenon.
The State Department assessment also ignores the direct participation of
senior PA officials in praising terrorists and inciting violence against
Israelis and Jews.
Click here for an Investigative Project on Terrorism
comprehensive outline of Palestinian violent incitement focused only on
incidents last fall.
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