Introduction:

Much media attention has been given in recent weeks to a reported “drop” in PA incitement.
Unfortunately, while there have been some changes in PA TV, the same hate messages
continue to be espoused –just by different speakers.

For example, world attention has brought pressure on the PA to change the content of the
Friday sermons, in which religious leaders have repeatedly called for the genocide of Jews.
The PA has not eliminated the message, however, but has merely transferred it to another
framework.

For years, the PA religious establishment has repeatedly portrayed the killing of Jews as a
religious necessity. Today, PA TV chose to rebroadcast this same call to genocide as a
historical necessity –this time from a senior PA academic rather than from a religious leader.
Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia and a TV lecturer, cited the identical
Hadith -Islamic tradition attributed to Mohammed -that the religious leaders have used to
demand this genocide. This was part of a lecture focusing on what he described as the war of
the Jews against Palestinian trees.

These were his words quoting the Hadith:
“Mohammed said in his Hadith: ‘The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you
fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say:
Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'” PA TV Dec. 27,
2004 [Rebroadcast from July 13, 2003]

The continued teaching that this Hadith applies today could well be a dominant factor driving
terror against Israeli civilians. By depicting redemption as dependent on Muslims’ killing of
Jews, the PA world view presents this genocide as a religious obligation and historical
necessity –not related to the conflict over borders, but as something inherent to Allah’s
world.

To view today’s call to genocide click here: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_stoneTree.asx

To hear this call to genocide expressed earlier in the year
by a religious leader click here:

http://www.pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_AFD_Mudayris_stone_9.asx

Sheik Ibrahim Madiras Friday sermon, PA TV Sept. 10, 2004:
“The Prophet said: the Resurrection will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and
the Muslims kill them. The Muslims will kill the Jews, rejoice [in it], rejoice in Allah’s
Victory. The Muslims will kill the Jews, and he will hide.
The Prophet said: the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say:
oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!. Why is there this
malice? Because there are none who love the Jews on the face of the earth: not man, not rock,
and not tree everything hates them. They destroy everything they destroy the trees and destroy

the houses. Everything wants vengeance on the Jews, on these pigs on the face of the earth, and the day of our victory, Allah willing, will come.”

Itamar Marcus is director of Palestinian Media Watch. He is member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Barbara Crook, a writer and university lecturer based in Ottawa, Canada, is PMW’s North American representative