Hamas has an avowedly anti-Semitic policy. On the eve of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Day, we offer several examples of the organization’s policy of anti-Semitism and Holocaust-denial. It is with this organization that Abu Mazen has made a pact.
1. A media release issued by Hamas in the wake of the January 2000 Stockholm conference on Holocaust research.
“This conference bears a clear Zionist goal, aimed at forging history by hiding the truth about the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis. . . . The invention of these grand illusions of an alleged crime that never occurred, ignoring the millions of dead European victims of Nazism during the war, clearly reveals the racist Zionist face, which believes in the superiority of the Jewish race over the rest of the nations.”
2. Hamas to UNRWA on its refusal to teach the Holocaust in the agency’s schools in Gaza.
“We cannot agree to a program that is intended to poison the minds of our children.”
3. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar on 6 January 2011.
“The lie according to which they were a victim of a holocaust and the (Jewish) people are a victim – this lie has crumbled with the holocaust of Beit Hanun…and the other countless holocausts committed by the Zionist enemy.”
4. Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum said that the Holocaust was, “a big lie.”
5. Article 7 of the Hamas Covenant.
“The time [Judgment Day] will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them and until the Jew hides behind the rocks and trees, and [then] the rocks and trees will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding [behind me], come and kill him.'”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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How about our “brothers” having a barbecue near the Holocaust memorial??
So there’s a machlokes between Abass who admits to the Holocaust and Hamas. Who do we pasken like?
Maybe after the ‘shiur’ that Abbas recently got from Marc Shneir, he can now have a “hashpa’ah’ on his cronies in Hamas!
Let’s reply to these holocaust deniers in their own language: there has never been a Palestinian people; this is a fiction created as a reaction to Zionism. Furthermore the “Arab Nation” is also mostly imaginary: there are several related Arab peoples. If Muslims want to think they are collectively a sort of “people” they may, but the reality is not like that.
On the other side of the coin, it is strange the Israeli government keeps insisting Israel is a Jewish state while at the same time making strenuous efforts to secularise it.