“We cannot agree to a programme that is intended to poison the minds of our children… Holocaust studies in refugee camps is a contemptible plot and serves the Zionist entity with a goal of creating a reality and telling stories in order to justify acts of slaughter against the Palestinian people.”Harriet Sherwood, “Hamas Fights UN’s ‘Poisonous’ Holocaust Lessons in Gazan Schools,” Guardian [U.K.], February 28, 2011, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/28/hamas-un-holocaust-lessons-gaza.
Hamas Ministry for Refugee Affairs, February 2011
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Feb. 2011
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Rhetoric Category
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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