On Friday, 12th December 2003, a virulently antisemitic sermon was broadcast over Palestinian Television. The sermon was delivered by the preacher Ibrahim Badris at the Zayed Bin Sultan Aal Nahyan Mosque in Gaza. It called, among other things, for the annihilation of the Jews in Israel. The preachers’ epithets included: “The curse of Allah is upon the Jews. The Jews, and this is a hisotrical fact, are not satisfied unless they can create civil wars all over the world. We warn the Arabs and the Muslims against this cancer which has already spread in Palestine, not to let it spread to Arab and Muslim states … Our batttle is against World Zionism which controls the decision making in the Security Council, the United States Government, Arab states and many other states in the world. The Jews are behind every civil war, wreaking havoc in the world… Hasn’t the time yet come when the Arabs and the Muslims should cleanse their country and their soil of this Jewish filth”?
