Ministry for Diaspora Affairs | October 2024

Chapter 2 Antisemitism and Indoctrination Promoting the Destruction of Israel in Teachers’ Union Statements

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

In one post, the union stated that “the genocidal war of the occupation... proves to all the Nazi nature of the occupation and its thirst for blood.” 22 Additionally, Secretary-General Erziqat conducted a campaign in Australia to end the fighting in Gaza and raise funds. He was involved in the demand to prevent the participation of Israel’s ambassador to England, Tzipi Hotovely, In an event at the University of Nottingham. He shared a post from the Teachers’ Union in Damascus that stated, “The images of the inhuman disaster... do not erase the images of pride in the humiliation of the soldiers of the Zionist occupation army in the Gaza envelope by our heroic resistance fighters.” 23

In August 2022, 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. 24 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, 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. 25

21 The Facebook page of the General Union of Palestinian Teachers 22 Ibid 23 https://did.li/dzxIw https://did.li/LVrZH https://did.li/AtOTY https://did.li/9PIaa 24 Palestinian media watch; Antisemitism report of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Fight Against Antisemitism for 2023, pp. 53-60. 25 The Facebook page of Erziqat, and see the extensive glorification of Abu Hamid by the PA

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