PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
April 19, 2015

On the occasion of the Israeli remembrance day for the victims of the Holocaust last week, a regular columnist in the official Palestinian Authority daily wrote an op-ed in which he recognized the fact that the Holocaust occurred and targeted Jews. But although the writer even called it “a catastrophe,” he reiterated false statements that have long been part of PA policy regarding the Holocaust, minimizing its scope and blaming the Zionist movement for participating in evil. The PA daily repeated the claim that Jews have exaggerated the number of victims and that it was not 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, but only “between one and two million…Zionists wanted “to increase the Jews’ suffering” in the Holocaust in order to blackmail Europe into supporting Israel…[their goal] to increase the Jews’ suffering and abuse in order to take advantage of the world’s compassion for them. READ MORE