Palestinian Authority: Jews Lied About Oct. 7 Because They Control the Media

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is using the antisemitic libel that Jews control the media to explain why the world believes that atrocities were committed by Palestinians on October 7, 2023.

According to the PA’s lies, Hamas only killed soldiers and did not rape, torture, or burn anyone alive. The only reason the world believes these things happened is because the Jews control the information people receive across the globe.

The PA’s antisemitism is rampant. Last week, Palestinian Media Watch reported that the PA used the old antisemitic libel that Jews will do anything for money so that it could deny the inherent Jewish connection to the Land of Israel, and thus to deny Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.

Now, PA TV has reported that there was “haziness” in how the events of October 7 were portrayed globally. It accused Israel of erasing truth, falsifying facts, and spreading rumors to control the narrative.

A reporter and also a guest on PA TV, Fawzi Al-Ghoweil, declared that the “Zionist entity” has historically controlled the world’s media outlets and influential platforms to falsify the Palestinian position and “skew[ed]” the events of October 7 “in favor of the Israeli entity.”

Official PA TV reporter: “Perhaps there was some haziness in the transmission of the scene of the event that took place on Oct. 7, 2023: [Israel] made efforts to erase this image, erase the truth, falsify all the facts, and invert them by circulating rumors, transmitting the Israeli narrative in the world. Several media outlets were influenced by this narrative…”

Arab Union for Digitization Advisory Committee Head Fawzi Al-Ghoweil: “The Zionist entity is able to control, or was able to control the media outlets and the most important media platforms in the world.

It harnessed all these tools … and they are the most influential [media] outlets… while falsifying the Palestinian position and what happened on Oct. 7. They attempted to skew this event in favor of the Israeli entity.

The Arab media, in the shadow of this Jewish, or more precisely Israeli or Zionist control over the media outlets — initially, participated in transmitting a false representation of reality.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA TV, Dec. 6, 2024]

This hate speech repeats classic antisemitic libels, such as Jews control the global systems of power, including media and finance.

Ephraim D. Tepler is a contributor to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Itamar Marcus is PMW’s Founder and Director. A version of this article originally appeared at PMW.

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