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, specifi-
cally details that Israel and the Palestinian Authority 
shall ‘‘abstain from incitement, including hostile propa-
ganda, against each other and, without derogating from 
the principle of freedom of expression, shall take legal 
measures to prevent such incitement by any organiza-
tions, 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 
Fatah’s military wing publicly threatens to kidnap sol-
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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 Informa-
tion 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, in-
cluding those of Abbas’ Presidential Guards and Pales-
tinian 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 
and the Palestinian Authority ‘‘will ensure that their re-
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spective educational systems contribute to the peace be-
tween the Israeli and Palestinian peoples and to peace in 
the entire region’’; 
Whereas Zayzafuna, a monthly educational magazine for chil-
dren 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 ‘‘bar-
baric monkeys, wretched pigs’’ and asserts that Jeru-
salem 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 Sec-
retary of State, if the President waives section 7040 (a) 
of that same Act, to ‘‘certify and report to the Commit-
tees 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 se-
curity 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses support and admiration for indi-
viduals and organizations working to encourage co-
operation between Israelis and Palestinians, includ-
ing— 
(A) Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, 
who took students from al-Quds University in 
Jerusalem to visit Auschwitz in March 2014 
only to return to death threats by fellow Pal-
estinians and expulsion from his teacher’s 
union; 
(B) the Israel Palestine Center for Re-
search and Information, the only joint Israeli- 
Palestinian public policy think-tank; 
(C) United Hatzalah, a nonprofit, fully vol-
unteer Emergency Medical Services organiza-
tion that, mobilizing volunteers who are reli-
gious or secular Jews, Arabs, Muslims, and 
Christians, provides EMS services to all people 
in Israel regardless of race, religion, or national 
origin; and 
(D) Breaking the Impasse, an apolitical 
initiative of Palestinian and Israeli business and 
civil society leaders who advocate for a two- 
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state solution and an urgent diplomatic solution 
to the conflict; 
(2) reiterates strong condemnation of anti- 
Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the Palestinian 
Authority as antithetical to the cause of peace; 
(3) urges President Abbas and Palestinian Au-
thority officials to discontinue all official incitement 
and exert influence to discourage anti-Israel and 
anti-Semitic incitement in Palestinian civil society; 
and 
(4) directs the United States Department of 
State to regularly monitor and publish information 
on all official incitement by the Palestinian Author-
ity against Jews and the State of Israel. 
Æ 
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