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Hamas MP Says Zionists Are Trying to Give Arabs AIDS

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July 22, 2019
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A Hamas member of parliament said on June 28 that Zionists are having women engage in sexual intercourse with Arabs in order to infect them with AIDS.

Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras said during a sermon at the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Mosque in the Gaza Strip told attendees that they shouldn’t ally themselves with Jews and Christians.

“Christians are allies of Jews, and Jews are allies of Christians,” Abu Ras said. “Stay away from them. You have nothing to do with them. Avoid their filthy and impure company. Ties with them will lead you to the abyss and annihilation.”

Abu Ras went onto rail against the “criminal Zionists” that came to Bahrain’s June conference regarding economic development for the Palestinians.

“It’s as if they were saying: ‘Die with your rage, oh you who oppose normalization [of ties with Israel],’” Abu Ras said. “‘We are on your turf, standing across from your organization. Our media outlets are here. We interview your ministers, sit in your homes, eat your food, drink your wine out of your cups, and send our girls to you so your boys will sleep with them and contract AIDS from them.”

In a June 23 on Al-Aqsa TV, Abu Ras said that the Jews’ “crimes and deeds” have caused them to be hated throughout history.

“[Adolf Hitler] was no less of a criminal than [the Jews],” Abu Ras said.

According to MyJewishLearning.com, Palestinian leadership has frequently accused Israel of spreading AIDS and mad cow disease to Palestinians, constituting a modern-day “blood libel.”

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