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\nA blow for the Incitement Industry

\nby Ben Dror Yemini

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\nA few weeks ago, a report went out here [Ma’ariv newspaper] about the Norwegian state television channel broadcast covering incitement in Palestinian media. The broadcast aired in part because of the publication of Palestinian Media Watch’s book "Deception" in Norwegian. A Norwegian journalist visited Israel and the PA in order to check out the situation. He met with PMW representatives and with citizens of the PA and found that we are indeed dealing with incitement.
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\nHowever, the story is not over. For a few weeks now, a fierce public discussion is underway in Norway. The Norwegian Foreign Ministry has reported in the past to the parliament that Norway's aid does not, for example, fund terrorists in prison. PMW insisted that this information was incorrect. The debate became heated. This week, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry issued a notice, which should be called a confession, that their first report was wrong. Norway does transfer funds to the Palestinian Authority and these funds reach murderers sitting in prison in the form of ongoing grants.
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\nNorway heads the countries that support the PA. Similar discussions on funding incitement are taking place in the UK and the Netherlands. Itamar Marcus, founder of PMW, was invited to European Parliament to present an accurate picture of the situation. The demand is not to stop the aid, but rather to supervise the aid. No more funding of incitement and murderers. It turns out that serious, credible information makes a difference. Maybe, just maybe, the hatred and incitement industry will suffer a blow. Please God.
","news":false,"indexId":"index21","id":4660,"title":"PMW findings initiate debate in Norway about funding to the Palestinian Authority","date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1363910400,"nanoseconds":0},"author":[{"about":"","citeName":{"he":"","en":"Yemini, B. D."},"name":{"en":"ben dror yemini","he":""},"id":211}],"tags":[],"lang":"en","description":"\"For a few weeks now, a fierce public discussion is underway in Norway. The Norwegian Foreign Ministry has reported in the past to the parliament that Norway's aid does not, for example, fund terrorists in prison. Palestinian Media Watch insisted that this information was incorrect. The debate...\"","thumbnail":"/storage/ARTICLES/impacting_media/maariv.jpg"},{"tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1037","1045","1332"],"lang":"en","title":"Israeli daily Ma'ariv on PMW's new book \"Deception: Betraying the Peace Process\"","published":true,"authorId":[211],"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1323388800,"nanoseconds":0},"description":"\"Two researchers, Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik from Palestinian Media Watch, recently published the book \"Deception,\" which presents the systematic incitement against Israel and the Jews under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority... The book \"Deception\" is full of sickening examples...\"","imageUrl":"","indexId":"index14","content":"The following is an excerpt from an article by Ben Dror Yemini in the Israeli daily Ma'ariv:
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\n“...Every mass-murder is preceded by systematic mass-brainwashing. There is a long process of paving the way for murder.
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\nAlthough Israel ignores it, this mass-brainwashing has been going on in recent years beside us, practically amongst us. Two researchers, Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik from Palestinian Media Watch, recently published the book Deception, which presents the systematic incitement against Israel and the Jews under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority. Some of this is well-known. In the '90's a joint committee for the prevention of incitement was active. But the situation has only become worse. Thus, for example, the Palestinian Authority funds the monthly youth magazine Zayzafuna (meaning "lime tree"). Last summer the magazine published a story submitted by a girl who wrote about an imaginary encounter with four role models: one was the 8th century mathematician Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi (the word "algorithm" is derived from his name); the second was the great Muslim conqueror Saladin; the third was the Nobel Prize-winning author Najib Mahfouz. From each of these, the girl learns something which is supposed to influence her choices in the future. There is another figure in the list of role models: Hitler. And Hitler tells her, 'I killed the Jews so that everyone would know that they're a nation that spreads destruction throughout the world.'
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\nThis sits well with other stories in the same magazine which presents values which supposedly reflect the discourse on rights, along with Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian pride. Until it comes to the Jews. Then it's about human animals who should be annihilated, and Hitler becomes a role model. There is no editorial comment explaining who Hitler was, what Nazism is, and what the Holocaust was. The book Deception is full of sickening examples – most from recent years; the great majority of them from the period of tenure of the most moderate pair – Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad. And it is not only they who provide funding for a magazine which displays admiration for Hitler. UNESCO helped with funding too.
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\nThis brainwashing is dangerous. Abbas and Fayyad are deserving of much praise for the fact that at this stage – and they emphasize that it is 'at this stage' – they have managed to put a stop to organized violence. It was they who suffered the most on account of it. But they also give their stamp of approval to mass murder. They are helping to nurture a new generation imbued with old-style Antisemitic hatred.
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\nA large portion of the funding for publications featuring hate propaganda comes from the European Union, and from European countries. In this regard no legislation will be of any use. In this regard what is needed is urgent diplomatic activity. The Foreign Ministry must send an abstract from the book, or its full-length text, to every organization, institute, and country in the West which helps to fund this brainwashing. This Antisemitic fascism must be stopped. And it certainly should not be funded.”
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