Ministry for Diaspora Affairs | September 2024

Part D

07 In another post on the official Facebook page, the union called for a comprehensive strike following the “cowardly attack on the national leader Salah al-Arouri.” 21 08

In August 2022, Saed Erziqat appeared on the official PA television to “explain” the intentions behind the remarks of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who stated that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts.” He also mentioned that the teachers' union sent a letter to its counterpart in Germany saying that the massacres against Palestinians were more severe than the Holocaust itself. 22 09 In December 2022, following the death of the terrorist Nasser Abu-Hmeid, a founder of the “Al-Aqsa Brigades” who was sentenced to nine life imprisonments for 13 different charges, Saed Erziqat publicly expressed support for him and announced that the teachers' organization would lead marches in schools in the Palestinian territories the following day, in honor of Abu-Hmeid's actions. 23

21 The Facebook page of the General Union of Palestinian Teachers 22 Palestinian media watch ; Antisemitism report of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Fight Against Antisemitism for 2023, pp. 53-60. 23 The Facebook page of Erezikat, and see the extensive glorification of Abu Hamid by the PA

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