A victim being transported into an ambulance outside the West Bank supermarket where Palestinian teens went on a stabbing spree. Photo: Twitter.

Last month, Palestinian Media Watch approached Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen regarding his response to a question asked in the Danish Parliament about statements made by Abbas Zaki, a member of the Fatah Central Committee. In those statements, Zaki glorified terrorism against Israelis, stating that “Allah loves our young people with rocks and knives.” In his response, Jensen described Zaki’s words as “a sad example of inflammatory rhetoric,” but added that Denmark would not be reassessing whether Fatah remains a “moderate” partner for Denmark because Zaki is, in the words of the Danish foreign minister, “a Fatah member residing in Lebanon, who is not considered to have spoken on behalf of Fatah, the PLO, the Palestinian Authority or the Palestinian government. … The statement does not give the government any reason to reconsider the assessment of Fatah and the movement’s leader, President Abbas.”

There is always an excuse if you want one. However, Zaki does reside in the PA and even if he did not, it is completely irrelevant since PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his cohorts themselves are doing a terrific job of inciting, supporting and rewarding terrorism. PMW pointed this out to the Danish minister, saying that “not only does Zaki reside in the PA, but more importantly, Fatah has not been a moderating voice during this current terror campaign. On the contrary, Fatah and its senior leadership are actively promoting terror against Israelis, including the unequivocal glorification of those who have killed and injured Israelis in terror attacks.”

PMW then proceeded to list incriminating examples of senior Fatah leadership glorifying and inciting terrorism against Israelis: Jibril Rajoub, Fatah Central Committee deputy secretary, has described terrorist attacks against Israelis as “individual acts of bravery, and I am proud of them. I congratulate everyone who carried them out. I say to you, we are proud of you. … Whoever confronts, fights, dies as a Martyr, is arrested or injured. … I say that whoever carried out individual acts of heroism, we in the Fatah movement bless and encourage them. We consider them heroes and a crown on the head of every Palestinian. … Are we for or against it? I say that we in the [Fatah] Central Committee have discussed this matter, and we are in favor.” Having it documented, black on white, that the Fatah Central Committee, actively supports terror against Israel, did not move the Danish minister.

PMW also supplied the Danish minister with a music video from official Fatah TV in which the singer, referring to Jews, says to “drown them in a sea of blood” and “kill them as you wish.” The Danish minister was unimpressed.

PMW also supplied the minister with text and photos from Fatah’s official Facebook page, which could leave no one in doubt as to the official position of said organization. Every image is screaming with bloodlust and hatred, but that too left the Danish minister cold.