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Jordanian professor Ahmad Nofal said in a lecture delivered on April 8, 2019: "The Israelites are our enemies until the Day of Judgment. […] There can be no peace with the occupiers of the Al-Aqsa Mosque!" Nofal categorically rejected a two-state solution in Palestine. He said th...

In a January 28, 2019 debate on Al-Mamlaka TV (Jordan) about underage marriage, Reem Abu Hassan, the Honorary President of the Institute for the Defense of Victims of Family Violence, said that people shouldn't have many kids if they can't afford to treat them all fairly, and tha...

Ahlam Tamimi, a Hamas terrorist sentenced to 16 life sentences for her involvement in the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing in Jerusalem, was interviewed by Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) on March 28, 2019. Tamimi explained that her 2011 release from Israeli prison with her husban...

Jordanian MP Tarek Sami Khoury said in a March 28, 2019 interview on Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) that Israel is a cowardly enemy and that the Palestinian people should take advantage of this fact. He said that Omar Abu Layla, the Palestinian terrorist who murdered two Israe...

In a March 22, 2019 show on Yarmouk TV (Jordan), Jordanian Professor Ahmad Nofal said that some Algerian babies are still being born dead or deformed because of France's nuclear tests in the Algerian desert, and he criticized France for refusing to apologize. He suggested that th...

In a "message to the Muslims in the West," Jordanian academic Professor Eyad Qunaibi said that the "moving and noble acts of kindness" by non-Muslims who stood alongside the victims after the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, should be rewarded - and that the best re...

Jordanian MP Khalil Attieh said in a parliamentary session that aired on Roya News (Jordan) on March 18, 2019 that he salutes the Palestinian people, the Jerusalemites, and the murabitat in Palestine. He stood and saluted Omar Abu Laila, "who killed the Jews yesterday." Abu Laila...

Jordanian analyst Khaled Al-Majali said in a February 17, 2019 interview on Jordan Today TV that Jordanians wrongly blame the government for security problems and that prime ministers in Jordan do not have any real authority. He said that Jordan’s internal policies have brought t...

During a December 26, 2018 Jordan Today TV debate about underage marriage, Abd Al-Haleem Al-Houshosh, the head of the Jordanian Association of Shari'a Lawyers, said that the marrying off of girls under the age of 18 prevents sexual harassment and that the advantages of underage m...

On a January 29, 2019 show on Jordan Today TV, Jordanian political activist and head of the Aqaba chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Action Front Khaled Al-Jihni said that Israel’s new Ramon Airport near Eilat is built on occupied Jordanian land and that the ent...

On January 13, 2019, Rum Online News (Jordan) uploaded a video of a brief fight that broke out in the Jordanian Parliament during a session discussing labor laws, when MP Khalil Attieh, also known as Abu Hussein, physically attacked MP Muhammad Al-Baraysah. Attieh had been talkin...

On December 31, 2018, Al-Arabiya TV (Saudi Arabia) aired a report about a Jordanian minister who walked on the picture of an Israeli flag that is painted at the entrance to the trade union complex in Amman while on her way to a meeting. The minister in question in Jumana Ghunaima...

Speaking on Al-Quds TV (Lebanon) on November 11, 2018, Jordanian political commentator Sufyan Tal said that Rupert Murdoch and Alex Springer are prominent Zionists who are recruited to make the world believe Jewish-Zionist lies. He said that the Holocaust is an example of one of ...

Professor Ahmad Nofal, who teaches Islamic law at the University of Jordan, said that former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had admitted to having been "issued a religious ruling" by Israel's Chief Rabbi to "[serve] the State of Israel and the Lord" by having sex with Arab ...

Jordanian Professor of Archaeology Mohammad Waheeb Al-Husseini said that the Zionist movement was aiming, in the long run, "to rule the world, not just Palestine, with Jerusalem as its point of departure." Al-Husseini, who is on the staff of the The Queen Rania Faculty of Tourism...

Former Jordanian PM Abdelsalam Al-Majali defended the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, saying: "My mentality is a mentality of peace," and talking about the fundamental issues that Jordan had achieved through the treaty. Jordan, he said, had got its land and water back and had res...

On July 18, Jordanian MP Ghazi Al-Hawmlah made statements deemed offensive to Queen Rania of Jordan during a special session of the parliamentary House of Representatives, which had convened to deliberate the government's policy statement. Al-Hawmlah said that he was unaware of a...

Calling the current Palestinian leadership "juvenile," Jordanian MP Muhammad Al-Zahrawi said that "according to the constitution, the West Bank belongs to Jordan" and that "all Jordanian lands must come under the Hashemite banner." His remarks came on July 18 during a special ses...