Earlier this month both the New York Times and the Washington Post published articles focusing on anti-Israel and anti-Jewish demonization by Palestinian leaders. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) earlier this week introduced Congressional legislation that would tie future aid to an end to calls and exhortations to violence. It is an issue that has repeatedly come up in State Department briefings.

Palestinian leaders, for their part, have been left less than chagrined by the public scrutiny.

Last week PA Minister of Religious Endowments Mahmoud Habbash gave a speech calling for Palestinians to launch a jihad against Israel, while Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas sat watching. Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel of poisoning Arafat, a canard that other Palestinian leaders have linked to age-old accusations that Jews murdered Muhammad.

And now this, from Abbas’s Fatah faction:

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