Insights Into West Bank Mosque Incites

CNN looks into PA efforts to rein in the invective and incitement of Palestinian preachers. I credit reporter Kevin Flowers…

By January 18, 2011

CNN looks into PA efforts to rein in the invective and incitement of Palestinian preachers. I credit reporter Kevin Flowers for drawing attention to the problem, but there’s a nuance he doesn’t make clear enough.

As the Washington Post reported a month ago, the PA crackdown is more about undercutting Hamas influence over West Bank mosques than about messages like Destroy Israel for Allah. Watch and judge for yourself.

Sheikh Hamed Bitawi, one cleric banned from preaching, told Flowers, “Myself and the other imams, we incite against the Israeli occupation.”

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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