An illustrated history of hatred of America
- PA cartoons cheered Bin Laden, mocked the US, and presented Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims as the true victims of 9/11
Today, we commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the heinous 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. As we move further away along the spectrum of time from the attacks of 2001, it is worth remembering the way that the Palestinian Authority celebrated the attacks year after year with cartoons glorifying Bin Laden or mocking and attacking the US.
The PA’s official media made a concerted effort to bash the United States by rubbing salt in its most sensitive wounds and by depicting America as evil while appropriating Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims as the victims.
In this cartoon below, Bin Laden is shown forming a victory sign with his fingers, which are made up of the smoldering Twin Towers next to a plane about to fly into them.
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, September 12, 2007]
Another cartoon shows the PA’s view that the real victims of 9/11 were Iraq and the Palestinians:
Text on one tower: “Palestine”
Text on the other tower: “Iraq”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida and Palestinian daily Al-Quds, September 12, 2003]
Here the PA accuses Israel of using the 9/11 attack on America as an excuse to attack Palestinians, and it gives a nod to the Palestinian libel of Jews as terrorists:
The two letters “L” of Ramallah take the form of the Twin Towers and the “o” in TERRORISM takes the form of a Jewish star.
[Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, October 19, 2001]
The PA claimed that 9/11 was just an excuse to jail Arabs and Muslims:
Two US jail cells, one with Arabs and the other with Muslims representing an 11, and text in Arabic reading: “September”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, September 11, 2002]
The fact is that nothing about the Palestinian Authority has changed until this day.
As Palestinian Media Watch continues to bring to the fore, the PA constantly demonizes America and appropriates itself as the victim of the crimes that it openly supports, such as the October 7 massacre.