Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported this week that a prominent Palestinian Authority newspaper editor has accused Israelis and other Zionists of carrying out terror attacks against Jewish targets in the Diaspora, in order to encourage Jewish immigration to Israel.
The bizarre accusation was issued by the editor of the PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, in an interview on official PA television. The editor explained that since Israel suffers from low immigration, it was Israel who started last month’s fire in a Parisian synagogue – in order to convince French Jews to leave France for Israel.
The editor, Hafez Barghouti, told the PA television audience: "The secret Zionist gangs have been trying, and are acting in France in the same way they used to act in Arab countries- Iraq, Egypt and Morocco - blowing up... Jewish synagogues in order to force them [the Jews] to immigrate [to Israel]. So after the attack on a synagogue, the Israeli ambassador in France called for all the Jews in France to immigrate [to Israel].... There are Israeli or Zionist gangs that carry out terror attacks against Jews and force them to immigrate [to Israel], because Israel suffers from emigration."
The bizarre accusation was issued by the editor of the PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, in an interview on official PA television. The editor explained that since Israel suffers from low immigration, it was Israel who started last month’s fire in a Parisian synagogue – in order to convince French Jews to leave France for Israel.
The editor, Hafez Barghouti, told the PA television audience: "The secret Zionist gangs have been trying, and are acting in France in the same way they used to act in Arab countries- Iraq, Egypt and Morocco - blowing up... Jewish synagogues in order to force them [the Jews] to immigrate [to Israel]. So after the attack on a synagogue, the Israeli ambassador in France called for all the Jews in France to immigrate [to Israel].... There are Israeli or Zionist gangs that carry out terror attacks against Jews and force them to immigrate [to Israel], because Israel suffers from emigration."