Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looks on as he visits the Istishari Cancer Center in Ramallah, in the West Bank, May 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Torokman

Another call to exterminate the Jews has arrived — and no, it’s not an 80-year-old Nazi Germany video, it’s the Western-funded Palestinian Authority (PA), 10 days ago.

Official PA TV has again broadcast a prayer for the extermination of Jews by a PA religious leader that is becoming a mantra on the network: “Count them, and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one.”  [Official PA TV, May 22. 2026]

Calls for genocide should be beyond the pale at any religious ceremony, yet in mosques in the Palestinian Authority, these calls against Israelis and Jews are routine and amplified to all Palestinians on official PA TV.

This phenomenon is especially dangerous, as Palestinian Media Watch has shown, because over 90 percent of Palestinians consider themselves religious. Since Allah’s word cannot be questioned, the act of murdering Jews is regularly said to be a form of Islamic worship — according to the PA.

In the last two years alone, PA TV has aired sermons praying for extermination of Jews at least eight times, by PA religious officials – most recently on May 22, 2026:

PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “O Allah. .. grant us victory over the infidel people …  Do not leave an oppressor without crushing him. O Allah, strike Your enemies and the enemies of Your religion… O Allah, count them, and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one.”

[Official PA TV, May 22, 2026]

Jews are regularly referred to as Allah’s enemy and the context of the sermon was about Palestinians and Israelis so there can be no doubt who Palestinians understand the “enemy” facing extermination is.

PA Shari’ah Judge Harb made an almost identical prayer at a mosque in Ramallah on January 30:

PA Shari’ah Judge Abdallah Harb: “Grant us victory over our aggressors … O Allah, strike Your enemies, the enemies of Your religion … O Allah, count them one by one, and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one of them.”

[Official PA TV, Jan. 30, 2026]

Twenty days before that, another Friday sermon by an unidentified preacher aired on PA TV explicitly stated that it is the Jews who are destined for extermination.

PA TV sermon: “O Allah, strike the oppressive Jews, O Allah count them one by one and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one.”

[Official PA TV, Jan. 10, 2025]

Mosques in the PA are government-funded, the preachers are salaried PA employees, and PA TV is government-owned and funded. Based on the years of evidence, religiously motivated incitement to murder Jews in the PA should be seen for what it is: a long-standing government policy, rather than merely a “problem.”

The EU, France, Germany, and other donor countries who fund the PA and regularly pay PA salaries, must understand that though they claim to be against antisemitism, they are funding calls for the extermination of Jews that are as explicit as were the calls by Nazi Germany.

The author is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.