Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on July 4 accused the Jewish state of conducting experiments on the bodies of dead Palestinian terrorists. The Palestinian PM’s fabrications about Israel, reminiscent of ancient blood libels, clearly fall within the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.
This is but the latest in a string of controversial comments by Mohammad Shtayyeh. One year ago, in remarks that went largely unnoticed, Shtayyeh promoted the antisemitic “Khazar myth,” also espoused by white supremacists, which posits that modern-day Jews are not related to the nation described in the Bible.
Some six months later, the PM presented a $25,000 award to ecoterrorists. The rioters from the West Bank village of Beita had burned makeshift swastikas embedded within Jewish Stars of David on multiple occasions.
Throughout, journalists consistently turned a blind eye to Mohammad Shtayyeh’s violently anti-Jewish tendencies.
And Shtayyeh’s latest peddling of inflammatory antisemitic tropes is similarly off the media’s radar. Who, then, will hold the Western-backed PA accountable for this kind of hate speech…and the violence that it’s inciting?
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