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Call to Fire PA TV Head After Anti-Semitic Broadcast (Ynetnews)
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to fire the head of Palestinian TV, after a televised sermon called Jews "a spreading cancer."

"The Jews are the cancer spreading all over the world...the Jews are responsible for all wars and conflicts," Sheikh Ibrahim Mudairis said Friday during a sermon from his Gaza Mosque in the presence of uniformed Palestinian police.

"Do not ask what Germany did to the Jews, but what the Jews did to Germany," he said.

"True the Germans killed and burnt Jews, but the Jews exaggerate the numbers to gain propaganda advantages and sympathy." The broadcast came days before Abbas's scheduled meeting with President Bush.

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The PA's print and broadcast media launched a broad propaganda attack against Israel and the U.S. on Friday, including accusations that Israel is planning attacks on Islamic holy sites and is poisoning Palestinian travelers.

For three hours, viewers saw almost non-stop anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish incitement, including a long interview with an armed terrorist who, in April 2002, had holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

After the interview, a map of Israel-Palestine appeared on a background of fire superimposed with video images of Arabs carrying children and suitcases being replaced by religious Jews wearing skullcaps and beards. On the weekly show "Good Morning Jerusalem," telephone callers consistently berated Jews in general and the "Jewish enemy" as well as the "American-Israeli conspiracy," while the show's host thanked them.