Where’s the Coverage? PA Official Calls Netanyahu a Nazi
The Palestinian Authority is run by Fatah, the political party of President Mahmoud Abbas. Fatah Central Committee deputy secretary and the head of the Palestinian Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs, Jibril Rajoub, recently compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler, saying the Likud prime minister follows “the Nazi model.” The Times of Israel reported that Rajoub:
…charged in a Russia Today TV interview that Israel “practices official terrorism, violates human rights, and ignores all UN resolutions.”
“Netanyahu is a distorted replica of the Nazism of the 1940s,” Rajoub said in the interview, translated by US-based media watchdog MEMRI. “He has found himself isolated, because people realize the danger that his racism and fascism poses to peace and global stability. He reacts to the crisis in this fascist, Nazi, racist manner.”
Even coming as we mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the media has completely ignored this outrageous statement. Why?
If there’s an argument that Rajoub is not an important Fatah minister and therefore his comments should be disregarded, that’s not the case. Only a few weeks ago, a media student criticized Rajoub after the Palestinian soccer team lost a game. Palestinian intelligence services arrested him for “insulting a public official”. That’s clout.
Or, perhaps one could contend that this comment is out of character for Rajoub. This is also not the case. This remark is by no means the first outrageous statement from the Fatah official who once said, regarding Israel, “We as yet don’t have a nuke, but I swear that if we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning.” This, too, was ignored by the news media.
Jibril Rajoub has been called “moderate” by many major news outlets. Perhaps the fact that his comments do not in any way support this “moderate” description and do not fit with the media narrative is the answer to our question… Where’s the coverage?
Watch video of Rajoub’s comments:
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