Younis al-Astal, Hamas spiritual leader, August 2009

Author
Younis al-Astal
Date
Aug. 2009
Name of Author
Younis al-Astal
Body

Adding the Holocaust to UNRWA’s curriculum in Gaza would be “marketing a lie and spreading it… I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies.”Diaa Hadid, “Hamas Leader Denies Holocaust, Objects To UN Plan To Teach Gaza Children About Holocaust,” Huffington Post, August 31, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/hamas-leader-denies-holoc_n_273078.html.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-Israel
Holocaust Denial/Minimization
Threat
Hamas

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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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