Palestine

Speaking on the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, commentator Tawfiq Abu Shomar said that when an Israeli soldier is killed in battle, he is portrayed as a civilian, with the press talking about his wife and little girl, whereas after a Palestinian child is killed by an ...

Speaking on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV, Islamic cleric Salah Nour cited the antisemitic hadith according to which the Muslims would fight the Jews on Judgment Day, and the trees and stones would give up the Jews hiding behind them. He praised the "virtue" of Jihad, and said: "Islam will p...

Palestinian cleric Khaled Al-Maghrabi delivered an address at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in which he said that the fire engine was invented by a Jew in order extort the owners of burning homes to sell their property on the cheap. "If you expect Satan to do something good... know that his in...

'Azzam Al-Ahmad, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and of the PLO Executive Committee, said that Hamas has "hijacked" Gaza against the will of its people. He called upon the people of Gaza: "Just as you wage an Intifada against the occupation, and perform acts of heroism in...

Mahmoud Al-Habbash, advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, gave an address on the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, in which he complained about the restrictions on access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and said: "Is this or is this not the Inquisition? It is a...

In a June 13 TV interview, Saudi journalist Mishal Al-Sudairy recounted the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, from Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, who allied himself with Hitler in WWII, through his successor Ahmad Al-Shukeiri, who "lived his entire life in five-star hote...

Former Jordanian MP Laith Shubeilat criticized King Abdullah, saying that a handful of people were determining the fate of Jordan, without anybody knowing what is going on. "He is pulling all the strings by himself, and I doubt that he can withstand the [American] pressure. How c...

Muhammad Al-Arab, head of the Paris-based "Peace Without Limits" NGO, criticized Hamas, which he said has brought famine upon its people in Gaza and has become Iran's "hired gun." "Whenever Iran is in trouble, Hamas instigates incidents, in order to relieve the pressure [on Iran]...

A man dressed as Yasser Arafat showed up among the protesters at the Gaza border and rebuked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for withholding the payment of salaries for Gaza employees. "Arafat" told the cheering crowd that he supported Palestinian unity and opposed ...

Booker Ngesa Omole, National Organizing Secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Kenya, said during an Al-Quds Day event held in the country that "if there is a possibility... we will join [the Palestinians] in the battlefield, to fight to reclaim their motherland." Omole call...

During the 2018 Quds Day rally in London, Sheikh Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour of the Islamic Centre of England sent a message "to the Jewish people of Palestine": "You can be sure that the resistance will come, free Palestine, and wipe Israel off the map." Sheikh Bahmanpour added th...

Mass demonstrations broke out on June 10 in Ramallah, in protest against the Palestinian Authority's handling of the situation in Gaza. Protesters demanded that the Palestinian Authority stop withholding salaries from employees in Gaza. The sanctions against Gaza are "a crime," s...

Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Iraq Ahmed 'Aql complained that U.S. President Trump had recognized Jerusalem "as the capital of the Jewish people," saying that they constitute "a religion, not a people." Asked what would happen if the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units decided...

Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, the former grand mufti of Lebanon, said that "one day, the Jews of the Balfour Declaration will have to choose whether to go back to where they came from or to meet their fate here." He further said that their situation in Palestine is "harsher tha...

At the Quds Day rally held on June 8 at Times Square, New York, activists called for "Intifada, Revolution!" and chanted: "With our souls and our blood, we will redeem you, Palestine!" Coffin-like boxes draped with the Palestinian flag lay on the ground. Bill Dores of the Nationa...

Speaking at the Toronto Quds Day rally, held on June 9, Sheikh Shafiq Hudda, director of the Islamic Humanitarian Service in Kitchener, Ontario, said that a day will come when we will see "the eradication of the unjust powers, such as the American empire, such as the Israeli Zion...

During a Hamas parliamentary session, commemorating the 51st anniversary of the 1967 war, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar gave a long list of cases throughout history in which the Jews had been banished from the European countries in which they lived. "These [Jewish] group...

The Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades, the military branch of the Popular Resistance Movement, marked the upcoming International Qods Day by conducting a military drill. Abu Yousuf, a spokesman for the Brigades, expressed "blessings, appreciation, and gratitude to Iran" and called ...

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki recently said that Palestine "will stretch from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, and we'll be done with this whole story." Speaking on the Iranian Al-Alam TV on May 30, Zaki further said: "Historically speaking, [the Jews] s...

Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub, who serves as President of the Palestinian Football Association and as Head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, called on Lionel Messi fans to burn their Messi jerseys and "wash their hands of him," to protest a soccer match between t...

On May 18, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participated, along with other senior politicians, in a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul. At the rally, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said: "The administration of Israel, which emulates Hitler and Mussolini, has once aga...

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Al-Rai Al-Youm and former editor-in-chief of the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi, praised North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for treating U.S. President Trump with "utter contempt." "He grabbed them where it hurts. This is the way to treat the Amer...

Egyptian cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Zoghbi said, in an interview following the assassination in Malaysia of Hamas member Fadi al-Batsch, that the Zionist Jews assassinate "peaceful civilians, who work in fields of applied science," as well as activists, because "they do not want t...