Introduction
Abuse of the memory of the Holocaust is a common theme in Palestinian
Authority (PA) teaching. The abuse ranges from Holocaust denial to libels
accusing Jews of planning and carrying out the Holocaust.

The following are examples of Holocaust abuse from the Palestinian
Authority over recent years.

1. The PA daily taught the libel that Zionist leaders participated in the
Holocaust for two purposes: to eliminate Jewish opposition and to force
Jews to run from Europe and go to the Land of Israel (British Mandate
Palestine).
" . . . If coming back to the suffering and tribulations (caused) by the
Nazis, we would read hair-raising things about the entanglement of the
Zionist leaders in the "sacrifice" of many Jews in order to kill two birds
with one stone: to be rid of those who disagreed with them (meaning Jews
opposed to Zionism) on the one hand and, on the other, to push all the Jews
to immigrate to Palestine, since Europe had become an unbearable Hell . . .
I would like to say that, based on the above, the Jewish - or more
accurately Zionist - willingness to sacrifice Jews for the above mentioned
cause is a known historical tradition."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 24, 2003]

2. A children´s play broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV features a
horrific scene of child actors portraying "dead" Palestinian children,
accompanied by narration saying that Israelis burned Palestinians in ovens.
"They are the ones who did the Holocaust, their knife cuts to the length
and the width of our flesh. . . They opened the ovens for us to bake human
beings.
They destroyed the villages and burnt the cities.
And when an oven stops burning, they light a hundred [more] ovens.
Their hands are covered with the blood of our children." [PA TV, March
25, 2004]

3. The figure of six million Jews cremated in the Auschwitz death camp is a
lie for propaganda purposes:
"The issue of the Holocaust rises again. It defies disappearing over its
half-century because the Zionist propaganda has converted it into a means
to produce political and economic benefit... A recently published book by
an American researcher, discusses the Holocaust. Employing scientific and
chemical evidence, it proves that the figure of six million Jews cremated
in the Nazi Auschwitz camps is a lie for propaganda, as the most spacious
of the vaults in the camp could not have held even one percent of that
number ... The question now discussed in the halls of the universities and
the renowned publishing houses in the world´s capitols is: Has this hen
reached its expiration date, which lays golden eggs for the Jews
everywhere? ... Of course there are those who claim that the Jews actively
participated in directing European feelings against them [to resist
assimilation] When Zionism cannot find an enemy to separate and repel the
Jews, it invents such an enemy; and so was the case with the
Holocausts. Its need for it [Holocaust] is imperative...
We are concerned that these dramatic cries regarding the Holocaust,
whether for or against, are intended to cover up the corresponding
Holocaust, that which Zionism is now producing with missile and tank,
against the Arabs in Palestine." [Article entitled "Marketing Ashes," by
Hiri Manzour, official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 13, 2001]

4. The Holocaust is a lie: Dachau and Auschwitz were "cleansing sites."
"...Lies surfaced about Jews being murdered here and there, and the no
Dachau, no Auschwitz! [They] were cleansing sites and unfounded claims. No
Chelmno, no Dachau, no Auschwitz! [They] were cleansing sites.... What I
am saying is they began to publicize in their propaganda media that they
were persecuted, murdered and exterminated... Committees acted here and
there to establish this entity [Israel-Ed.], this foreign entity, implanted
as a cancer in our country, where our fathers lived, where we live, and
where our children after us will live. They always portrayed themselves as
victims, and they made a Center for Heroism and Holocaust. Whose heroism?
What Holocaust? It is our nation which is Heroic, the holocaust was against
our people... We were the victims, but we shall not remain victims
forever..."
[Educational program "Pages From Our History" Dr. Issam Sissalem, history
lecturer, Islamic University Gaza, Palestinian expert on Jews and Judaism,
PA TV, Nov. 29, 2001]

5. PA leader on TV: Jews planned the Holocaust.
Dr. Ibrahim Madi teaches on PA TV that Jews planned the Holocaust:
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6. In a PA TV interview with Ismail Elbakawi the PA taught the following
"facts" about World War II:
A.The Nazis did not specifically plan the killing of Jews.
B. Jews, Germans, Gypsies, and Poles were all killed in World War II, as
happens in war.
C. If Hitler planned any extermination, it was of disabled Germans.
D.The term "Holocaust" in its human sense refers to experiences of the
Palestinians, the Gypsies.
E.The "Holocaust industry" is a financial scheme of the Zionist leadership
that has generated billions of dollars in profits.
The following is the PA TV interview with Ismail Elbakawi, discussing a
book called: The Holocaust Industry and his statements are supported by the
interviewer. Elbakawi translated the book: The Fundamentalism of the Jews
in Israel.

Elbakawi:
"[The Holocaust] was a real event that occurred from 1939 to 1945. However,
it did not just affect the Jews in Europe, but also other nations including
the Poles, the Hungarians, the Russians - as you remember, 20 million
Russians were killed and Germans, and Gypsies. They were annihilated and
killed as a result of the war, and not due to a prior plan . . . It is
possibly true that Hitler planned the extermination of disabled Germans. It
is likely that these things are true, I don´t know . . . This is the
historical truth: the true Nazi Holocaust. I apologize for using the word
"Holocaust." This is a word that they try to attach only to the Jews who
were killed, but I use this expression in the human sense. It can also be
used to refer to the Palestinians and the suffering that the Israelis [have
caused] them. The Palestinians also have their own private Holocaust, and
this is also true of the Gypsies, etc.
What the Zionist leadership in general and the Americans in particular
have tried [to do] is to turn this truly tragic historical event into an
industrial enterprise, an enterprise that will bring them a lot of capital,
a fortune of wealth. For example, they started in Germany in the 1950s with
what they called "reparations" and suddenly, in the second half of the
1990s they turned, after Germany to Austria, they turned to Switzerland and
began to invent their lies, according to which, the Swiss bought the gold
fillings of the Jewish victims that the Nazis had taken from the teeth [of
the Jews] ...The Holocaust enterprise forced the Swiss government to
approve [the sum of] one billion and 250 million dollars. ..[Why do] so
many of the Swiss support Palestinian rights ...? Because Swiss society is
very hurt by having discovered the robbery [of the Jews.]" [PA TV, May 27,
2003]

7. "Israeli snakes spread their venom" of Holocaust lies.
"...This right [of the Austrian nation after Heider´s winning the election]
got shaken or tried to immediately shake it when the Israeli snakes spread
their venom in the cloak of the Holocaust lies and started to threaten
calamity and catastrophe if the extreme right wing [chosen by the
Austrians] got into the government."
[Al-Hayyat al-Jadida, Feb. 7, 2000]

8. Crossword Puzzle in official PA daily: The Holocaust is a lie.
Clue: "Jewish Center Commemorating the Holocaust and the Lies"
Solution: "Yad Vashem " [Israel´s Holocaust Memorial Center ]
[Al-Hayyat al-Jadida, Feb 18, 1999]

9. The Jews transformed their "burnt bodies" into a hen laying golden eggs.
"The Jews transformed what people think is the smoke of their burnt bodies
into gold. The Nazi rooster, they already transformed it to a hen laying
golden eggs".

10. Exaggeration of the Jewish Holocaust has exceeded all limits.
"Many of the enlightened and the politicians of Europe and America have
already been disgusted by the extortion of the Jews and it is quite clear
that they have a deep tendency to be free of the yoke of memory which is
mixed with terror, especially after it has been known that the Jewish
explanation exaggerating the Holocaust, has exceeded all limits and reached
a level of imagination of things that could never happen." [Al- Hayyat
al-Jadida, Sept. 19, 2000]

11. Jews fabricated the story about gas ovens and the Holocaust to arouse
admiration.
"The winds blew in their favor, when the persecution against them by the
Nazi Hitler started. . . then the show began. They began to distribute
horrific pictures of mass shooting being committed against them and to
fabricate the shocking story about gas ovens, [in] which, according to
them, Hitler would burn them [the Jews]. Newspaper columns began to fill up
with pictures of Jews being cut down by Hitler´s machine guns, and of Jews
being led to the gas ovens. In these pictures they concentrated on women,
children and the elderly. And they took advantage of this in order to
arouse admiration for them, while they demand a monetary compensation,
grants and contributions from all over the world. The truth is that the
persecution of the Jews is a false fable that the Jews called the disaster
of the "Holocaust" . . . and took advantage of it in order to arouse
admiration . . . And although it is possible that Hitler´s attack against
the Jews hurt them slightly, it also serviced them to the point where still
today they reap the benefits and it was the main door to her winning the
American and European admiration and to realizing their dream and their
plans . . . When we survey the news agencies, the newspapers, the
journals and the world television stations, which the Jews control in the
West, it becomes clear to us the extent of their media influence in the
world [and their control] of a number of world news agencies, French and
British newspapers, and among them the Times newspaper which Zionism
controls by means of its buyout by the Jewish millionaire of Australian
citizenship, Rupert Murdoch . . . " [Sayf Ali Al-Jarwan, Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, July, 2 1998]

12. The list of "Great" Europeans includes Holocaust deniers and a Nazi
officer.

This Palestinian daily described a paper of a research center which gives
prominence and support to "great" Europeans who withstood the lies of
"world Zionism." This list of Europeans includes two prominent Holocaust
deniers, a Nazi officer in World War Two and the leader of an extremist
right wing political party.
"The Zaid center . . . published a new research paper titled: ´These are
the people who challanged Israel in the last 50 years.´ This research
surveys the honored. . . European leaders, politicians, and thinkers -
against world Zionism and Israel....
Five of the most famous personalities who were known for their opposition
to the Zionist pressure: the French leader Charles de Gaulle, past general
secretary of the UN and the president of Austria, Kurt Waldheim [a Nazi
officer] and the famous English historian David Irving [a Holocaust
denier], the new Austrian leader Jorg Heider and the writer and thinker
Frenchman Roger Grudie [a Holocaust denier].
...The center points out at the beginning of the paper which was defined
as an historical paper for the Arab reader, and in it a thanks,
appreciation and recognition to these people and others, among those who
defend the rights and justice in the world." [ Al-Hayyat al-Jadida. Feb. 6,
2001]

13. Israel far worse than the Nazis.
"Father Yosef Jabaran Sa´ada ´With these actions they have been far worse
than the actions of Nazism during the Second World War. However, the
difference is that they do it now after many laws, agreements and
conventions have been published to protect man even in war . . . " [
Al-Hayyat al-Jadida, Jan. 15, 2001]

".....We are concerned that these dramatic cries regarding the Holocaust,
whether for or against, are intended to cover up the corresponding
Holocaust, that which Zionism is now producing with missile and tank,
against the Arabs in Palestine." [Hiri Manzour, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr.
13, 2001]

14. Palestinian Ministry of Information Web Site, March 18, 2001:
"If the Israeli occupation siege continues on the occupied Palestinian
territories, the camps will turn into concentration camps similar to those
the Nazis created for the Jews with one difference, the Palestinians were
not driven by trains to concentration camps, Jewish soldiers came and
encircled Palestinian areas turning them into such camps." (PMW.ORG 04/19/04)