The Palestinian Authority and some sects of the Christian Church have taken their anti-Semitism, hatred and incitement to violence against Israel and Jews to a new and sickening level.
A Christmas tree set up at the PA’s Al Quds University branch in Jerusalem’s Abu Dis neighborhood is adorned not with colorful, glittering bulbs, but rather with photo ornaments of the bloodthirsty killers of hundreds of Israelis.
The tree was unveiled last week during a PA unity event held at the campus. The ceremony was attended by Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Bethlehem Mufti Sheikh Abdel Majid Amarana, university president Imad Abu Kishk and faculty members.
Abu Kishk spoke about unity in his remarks, and the Christian teachings of “love, tolerance and how to turn the other cheek… Christmas is not only a holiday for Palestinian Christians, but is for all Palestinians. The Palestinian people is united, whether Muslim or Christian,” he said.
In the Palestinian Authority capital of Ramallah, however, the PA government has announced there will be no Christmas decorations at all “out of respect for the martyrs.” Instead, the city said it will host “solidarity activities daily such as funerals of martyrs and demands for the return of martyrs’ corpses from Israel.”
Given the level of Islamic harassment against Christians in the Muslim-majority PA, it is more likely Ramallah used the current wave of violence as an excuse to abandon any further pretense of true solidarity between Muslim and Christian Arabs.
“In this PA university the Christmas tree is adorned w/terrorists who murdered Israelis. This is sick and sickening,” tweeted Ofir Gendelman, Arab media spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Among those featured in the photographic Christmas ornament is the late founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Another is Fadi Aloon, who was shot and killed after he stabbed an Israeli teenager outside the Old City of Jerusalem.
“This is especially ironic, considering many of these terrorists would have had no problem whatsoever with killing Jesus himself today,” noted the pro-Israel organization Stand With Us, “as he was a Jew in the Land of Israel.
“Using Christmas to glorify Islamic terrorists is insane,” the group said in a statement.
Seen in the photo standing next to the tree, dressed in black and white are two Palestinian Authority Christian leaders.