Palestinian children’s television: Teaching a world of hate

All my Arabness calls me to vengeance and liberation …

Thousands of prisoners … call to this great nation and call to millions and say to them:

and raise the Palestinian banner in the world’s sky

And strengthen my word that goes on:

Palestinian, Palestinian, Palestinian.”

Official P.A. TV host: “Bravo, bravo! You are very talented.” [Official P.A. TV, The Best Home, Nov. 1, 2018]

For years, P.A. TV has been inviting children to sing this song that urges Palestinians to seek “war” that will “smash and destroy” Israel.

‘A Zionist stole the land of Palestine’
In the same episode of the program, a girl recited a poem denying Israel’s right to exist with the words: “A Zionist stole the land of Palestine.” The poem speaks of the Palestinians becoming “refugees” “70 years ago”—in other words, in 1948 when the State of Israel was created. Palestinian children are taught to deny Israel’s right to exist since its creation in 1948, and not in the borders of 1967 as the P.A. claims in international circles. This education does not leave room for Israel in any borders. The poem encourages Palestinians to “rebel” and “shoot with your fire, like volcanoes,” so that they will be “victorious” and “return.” Upon hearing this poem, the P.A. TV host ensured her audience of children that “we are returning. Soon, Allah willing, we will return to our land”:

Palestinian girl Nour: “A Zionist stole the land of Palestine,

War, destruction, murder and wailing,

We were uprooted and the world called us refugees (i.e., in 1948),

We have sacrificed millions of martyrs for the sake of your return, Palestine

We said a year, two years; they have become 70 (i.e., since Israel’s creation in 1948),

Rebel, rebel, O people of the giants,

And shoot with your fire, like volcanoes,

So Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa [Mosque] will return to us, O Muslims

And Allah willing we will be victorious, and everyone will be witnesses,

We are returning. By Allah, we are returning,

Even if the entire world gives up on you, your children won’t, O Palestine …”

Official P.A. TV host: “Bravo! […] I want to tell you, as my friend Nour has said, we are returning. Soon, Allah willing, we will return to our land. … Every one of us can resist the occupation wherever he is, and in our different ways so we can bring back Palestine. Children, are we capable of bringing it back? Are you sure? Good.” [Official P.A. TV, The Best Home, Nov. 1, 2018]

Palestinian Media Watch has shown, that this same P.A. TV host has taught children numerous times that all of Israel is “occupied” territory that will “return” to Palestinians. She has stated that “not only Jaffa but also Haifa, Akko, Nazareth and all the Palestinian cities occupied in 1948 will return to us one day.”

Palestinian boy Osama: “Haifa, Akko, Jaffa and Nazareth (i.e., Israeli cities) are ours,

And the Galilee and the Golan (i.e., in northern Israel), sings Osama.

From Bethlehem to Jenin, Palestinian,

Ramle, Lod and Sakhnin (i.e., Israeli cities), Palestinian,

Nowhere is more beautiful than Jerusalem.”

[Official P.A. TV, The Best Home, Nov. 1, 2018]