IV 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 293 

Expressing concern over anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement within the 

Palestinian Authority. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 3, 2015 

Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself and Mr. DEUTCH) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing concern over anti-Israel and anti-Semitic 

incitement within the Palestinian Authority. 

Whereas the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and 

the Gaza Strip, commonly referred to as Oslo II, specifically details that Israel and the Palestinian Authority 

shall ‘‘abstain from incitement, including hostile propaganda, against each other and, without derogating from 

the principle of freedom of expression, shall take legal 

measures to prevent such incitement by any organizations, groups or individuals within their jurisdiction’’; 

Whereas in spite of the Oslo II agreement, the President of 

the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas repeatedly 

describes released Palestinian terrorists as ‘‘heroes’’ and 

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diers and launch missiles at Israel on the Fatah 

Facebook page and website; 

Whereas the Palestinian Authority pays monthly ‘‘salaries’’ 

to families of Palestinian terrorists incarcerated in Israel; 

Whereas in June 2013, Abbas referenced Israeli acts which 

‘‘indicate an evil and dangerous plot to destroy Al-Aqsa 

and build the alleged temple’’; 

Whereas in a November 2014 address commemorating the 

10th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, Abbas said 

that as Israel has no claim to Jerusalem, he will not 

allow the Temple Mount to be ‘‘contaminated by Jews’’, 

and threatened that Jewish prayer at the site would 

cause a ‘‘devastating religious war’’; 

Whereas in November 2014, jailed terrorist and Fatah leader 

Marwan Barghouti called for ‘‘comprehensive resistance 

and the rifle’’ against Israel; 

Whereas Palestinian Authority Deputy Minister of Information Al-Mutawakkil Taha told official Palestian Authority 

daily newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadida in early 2012 that, 

‘‘Israel has gone beyond all forms of oppression practiced 

by fascism throughout history’’ and that it‘‘does more 

than racist discrimination and ethnic cleansing’’; 

Whereas official Palestinian websites and Facebook pages, including those of Abbas’ Presidential Guards and Palestinian Authority schools, recurrently show maps of the 

land without reference to Israel and in November 2012, 

the Palestinian Authority erected a statue in central 

Bethlehem square that displayed a map of the ‘‘state of 

Palestine’’ covering all of Israel; 

Whereas the Oslo II agreement further dictates that Israel 

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spective educational systems contribute to the peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples and to peace in 

the entire region’’; 

Whereas Zayzafuna, a monthly educational magazine for children sponsored by the Palestinian National Committee 

for Education, Culture and Sciences, regularly presents 

Adolf Hitler as a role model and in January 2012, 

Facebook pages of several Palestinian Authority high 

schools posted images of Hitler with his quotation, ‘‘I 

could have killed all the Jews in the world, but I left a 

few so that you would know why I killed them’’; 

Whereas a teacher in a summer camp near Nablus in July 

2013 can be seen in video footage leading children in a 

call and response saying, ‘‘Palestine is an Arab land from 

the river to the sea. We want Haifa, we want Acre’’; 

Whereas in July 2013, Palestinian official television aired a 

video of two girls reciting a poem that calls Jews ‘‘barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs’’ and asserts that Jerusalem is not for Jews, because Jerusalem ‘‘vomits’’ out 

the Jews who are said to be ‘‘filth’’ and ‘‘impure’’; 

Whereas section 7040 (e) of the Consolidated and Further 

Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, requires the Secretary of State, if the President waives section 7040 (a) 

of that same Act, to ‘‘certify and report to the Committees on Appropriations prior to the obligation of funds 

that . . . the Palestinian Authority is acting to counter 

incitement of violence against Israelis and is supporting 

activities aimed at promoting peace, coexistence, and security cooperation with Israel’’; 

Whereas the Palestinian Authority has not fully lived up to 

its prior agreements with Israel to end incitement and 


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should do more to prepare the Palestinian people for 

peace with Israel: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) expresses support and admiration for indi3 viduals and organizations working to encourage co4 operation between Israelis and Palestinians, includ5 ing— 

6 (A) Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, 

7 who took students from al-Quds University in 

8 Jerusalem to visit Auschwitz in March 2014 

9 only to return to death threats by fellow Pal10 estinians and expulsion from his teacher’s 

11 union; 

12 (B) the Israel Palestine Center for Re13 search and Information, the only joint Israeli14 Palestinian public policy think-tank; 

15 (C) United Hatzalah, a nonprofit, fully vol16 unteer Emergency Medical Services organiza17 tion that, mobilizing volunteers who are reli18 gious or secular Jews, Arabs, Muslims, and 

19 Christians, provides EMS services to all people 

20 in Israel regardless of race, religion, or national 

21 origin; and 

22 (D) Breaking the Impasse, an apolitical 

23 initiative of Palestinian and Israeli business and 

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1 state solution and an urgent diplomatic solution 

2 to the conflict; 

3 (2) reiterates strong condemnation of anti4 Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the Palestinian 

5 Authority as antithetical to the cause of peace; 

6 (3) urges President Abbas and Palestinian Au7 thority officials to discontinue all official incitement 

8 and exert influence to discourage anti-Israel and 

9 anti-Semitic incitement in Palestinian civil society; 

10 and 

11 (4) directs the United States Department of 

12 State to regularly monitor and publish information 

13 on all official incitement by the Palestinian Author14 ity against Jews and the State of Israel. 

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