PA President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank August 18, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/Pool

Explicit American support for Israel against Hamas and other terror organizations in the current terror war, which was launched by Hamas with its massacre of Israelis on October 7, prompted a particularly foul antisemitic response from a “political commentator” on official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV.

Categorizing Jews as “human waste,” Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh explained the American support and European “solidarity” with Israel as nothing more than an expression of these states’ fear that the Jews will flee Israel and return to them.

He concluded that having gotten “rid of the Jews” — the “human waste” — the US and Europe will “do anything” to keep them in “Palestine”:

Palestinian political commentator Kamal Zakarneh: “They [Europe and America] are demonstrating a lot of solidarity with the Israeli occupation. I tell you there is something hidden here, and it is that they are not expressing these positions out of love for ‘Israel’ in quotations, but rather they — Europe and America — succeeded in getting rid of the Jews, whom they themselves view as human waste, and they threw them out into Palestine.

They created a place for them far away from them, far away from Europe.

They don’t want reverse migration now and their [the Jews’] return to Europe again. They, Europe and America, are prepared to provide all the aid they can … to strengthen the occupation and leave the Jews where they are. [US President Joe] Biden said this during the events in Israel: ‘If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one.’ He would have invented it to absorb the human waste.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV, Oct. 24, 2023]

Such antisemitic statements are not at all new in the PA. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) exposed last week that the PA instructed all mosque preachers to teach worshipers that the extermination of Jews is an Islamic imperative.

Earlier this year, PMW exposed that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on religious affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, taught Palestinians that Jews are Satan in human form:

Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “A group from among the People of the Book (i.e., Jews) wants to deceive you… and turn you back from your religion so that you will be like them. This goes back to the initial point of the conflict, the conflict between good and evil…They [Jews] have left the path of humanity and followed Satanity. Satanity is an exit from humanity … Satan does not have to be in the form of a demon, hidden, he can also be in your form, but he is Satan. In the form of man, but he is Satan. And they (i.e., Satan-Jews) are still fighting us until they turn us back from our religion.”

[Official PA TV, July 7, 2023]

The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.