Palestinian Television Religious Sermon
By Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin, December 11, 2002
The promotion of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred continued to be a significant
theme of Palestinian television programming during month of Ramadan.
During a televised sermon, Jews were referred to as “cursed … the
brothers of monkeys and pigs, with a stream of curses that will continue until
the Resurrection…”
The following are more selections from the sermon by Dr. Mustafa
Najem, broadcasted on Palestinian Television on December 6, 2002:
“Praise be to Allah, who has cursed [the Jews], the brothers of monkeys and
pigs, with a stream of curses that will continue until the Resurrection of the
dead. He has warned us against their evil and their arrogance, and has said:
‘You will find that the most brazen among mankind, with hatred towards the
believers, are the Jews and the Idolaters.’ [Koran, 81,5]
It is not foreign to them to shed our blood. They murder and slaughter us,
demolish our homes, and destroy everything that is important to us…
The Jews are Jews, and we are forbidden to forget their character traits
even for a moment, even for a blink of an eye.
O [Muslims] Servants of Allah! The Jews are those who tried to murder your
Prophet in order to expunge the call [to Islam]. It is no wonder that it has been
legitimized [for them] to kill and slaughter us …
Our enemies are waging a war against us, against Islam and the Muslims in
particular, against those who demand their rights, and against any Muslim who
seeks to hold his head up. They are trying to subdue us with hard oppression.
Such are the Jews, who are fighting against us during Ramadan and our
peaceful festival, and also during the holy months, because they are Idolaters,
heretics, whose faith is false. While we are the believers in the truth and in the
true faith…
Allah loves those who fight on his behalf…
Allah said against the Jews and the Idolaters ‘your Lord has declared
that he will surely send against them [Jews] until Resurrection, those [Arabs
and Muslims] who will afflict them with terrible torment…’
Prayer and blessing to the Imam of the Jihad fighters, [Prophet] Mohammed,
who waged a Jihad against the Jews, and a significant Jihad. He warned us, in
strongest terms, against them. He said, after he expelled them from Arabia,
“two religions will not be here together.” …
It is not unusual for the Jews, nor uncharacteristic of their traits, or their
ancestry, or their wild behavior, what they are doing … slaughter after
slaughter, invasion after invasion this has been the custom of the Jews
throughout the generations and the ages. This is especially so when the
Muslims are united and seek their full rights, since they [Muslims] are the ones
with the Truth and the Jews have Falsehood.”
