Even as Holocaust Remembrance Day approached, the main Palestinian Authority newspaper spread the libel that Israel experiments, Nazi-style, on Arab prisoners. The slander was been documented by Palestinian Media Watch, which monitors incitement in the PA press.
In a Holocaust Remembrance Day news release, PMW emphasized that "Holocaust desecration, denial and abuse are all components of Palestinian Authority ideology and discourse."
Arabs throughout the PA read material such as this on a regular basis and are inspired to carry out horrific attacks against Jewish targets.
The "report" in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on April 17 accused Israel of attempting to "imitate the German Nazis... use prisoners as guinea pigs, for testing the weapons and the deadly drugs... The Nazi German doctor, Josef Mengele, was the most famous among them." Mengele was infamous for experiments on Jewish twins, for deciding who would go to the gas chambers and who could work at the entrance to Auschwitz, and other barbaric acts putting the lie to his Hippocratic oath.
The libel is a continuation of a "report" printed two days earlier, that "Israeli doctors also carry out medical experiments on prisoners," and that "there are [Israeli] prisons which fall under the military administration... They resemble the detention camps during the Nazi period." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 15, 2011]
In fact, the prisons in which terrorists are kept in Israel are often compared to summer camps by terror victims. Prisons can get academic degrees, engage in sports and receive visitors.
The PA has a long history of Holocaust abuse, PMW explained." In the past, a PATV children's broadcast taught that Israel burned Palestinians in ovens, and PA schoolbooks erase the history of the Holocaust. Children are taught about Nazi racism and the Nuremberg Trials but are not taught that Jews were the object of the racism or what the Nazi crimes were."