Ministry for Diaspora Affairs | October 2024

Minister’s Foreword

“Hi, Dad, I’m speaking to you from Mefalsim; open my WhatsApp and see all the dead; see how many I killed with my own hands. Your son killed Jews! … Dad, I’m calling from the phone of a Jewish woman; I killed her and her husband. With my own hands, I killed ten! Dad, ten with my own hands! Put Mom on the phone.” The terrorist’s mother responds: “Oh my son, may God protect you... May God bring you back safely.” This horrifying conversation between one of the terrorists and his parents in Gaza during the massacre in Israeli towns near the Gaza border on October 7th reveals the results of systematic indoctrination and incitement in the Palestinian education system. The army of terrorists that went on a spree of murder, rape, and sadistic abuse in the western Negev on October 7th could not have committed its crimes without the indoctrination that conditioned its members to such horrific actions.

From kindergarten through school, youth movements, and television, the Palestinian education system fosters a deep hatred and a brutal lust for the murder of Jews, driven by a combination of classic antisemitic motifs and radical Islamic fervor. Jews are portrayed in the Palestinian indoctrination system as parasites, usurers, descendants of apes, and pigs who must be exterminated. Israel—or more precisely, the “Zionist entity”—is depicted as an imperialist project that must be erased from the earth as a religious imperative. Mufti Amin al-Husseini, the founder of the Palestinian national movement, laid the foundation for this worldview. Al-Husseini built Palestinian national identity on a single foundation: a war of extermination against Zionism and the Jewish people, who, they claim, aim to take over Jerusalem and build the Temple on the ruins of Al-Aqsa Mosque. This worldview now dominates the entire Palestinian education system.

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