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UNRWA, which runs 
schools in the refugee 
camps, including much 
of the Gaza Strip, has 
contributed to the sick 
street culture with 
antisemitic education 
materials that include 
descriptions of Jews as 
“impure” and “inherently 
treacherous and hostile to 
Islam and Muslims.” The 
materials accuse Jews of 
attempting to murder the 
Prophet Mohammad and 
“defiling” the Al-Aqsa 
Mosque. 
Another factor is the 
lack of leadership and 
democratic processes in the 
Palestinian government. 
The supposed moderate, 
President Mahmoud Abbas, 
is now serving the 19th 
year of a four-year term. 
Contesting him are Hamas, 
whose charter covenant 
calls for Israel’s destruction, 
and PIJ, an Iranian proxy 
that rains rockets on Israeli 
cities. 
Speaking of Iran, the 
country’s Tasnim News, 
which is considered close to 
the Islamic Revolutionary 
Guard Corps, broadcast 
a glowing account of the 
synagogue massacre, calling 
the perpetrator a “martyr” 
and reporting that Iranian-
allied forces in Yemen 
had “blessed” the attacker. 
It’s no wonder that the 
toxic milieu of Palestinian 
politics has given rise 
to the ugly Boycott, 
Divestment and Sanctions 
(BDS) concept, which 
opposes peace between 
Israelis and Palestinian and 
calls instead for the total 
destruction of the state of 
Israel.
It’s time to admit that 

Palestinian institutions are 
broken, and that they have 
developmentally harmed 
generations of Palestinian 
men and women, boys 
and girls, by whipping 
them into a constant froth 
with violently antisemitic 
educational and media 
content that celebrate 
“martyrdom” attacks 
against Israelis. 
The Palestinian Authority 
provides a financial 
incentive for terrorism 
by providing pensions to 
the families of those who 
attack Israelis. Hamas has 
created a smaller Taliban in 
its private emirate in Gaza, 
and Iran’s malign influence 
is running amok via its 
puppets at the PIJ. 
It took years to fix 
societies that had been 
abused by the Nazis, who 
began to corrupt young 
people in early childhood 
with cult-inculcation 
organizations like the 
Hitler Youth and Bund 
Deutscher Mädel, and the 
similarly militant culture 
of wartime Japan, which 
had an equivalent youth-
brainwashing organization 
called the Great Japan 
Youth Party. 
The Palestinian people’s 
immersion in a culture 
of violence now spans 
generations. The corrupt 
Palestinian institutions 
must be completely 
abolished, and an entirely 
new framework envisioned 
so that a rising generation 
can mature and embrace 
the prospects of peace and 
prosperity. 

Bassem Eid is a Palestinian human 

rights activist. This is republished 

from The Forward.

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