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MPs urge action on taxpayer money to Palestinian Authority

March 6, 2013 16:03

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

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MPs have urged government action on the "£30 million a year" of taxpayer money that could be being used for "Palestinian Authority-endorsed incitement" to hate.

Conservative MP Gordon Henderson convened a debate in Parliament on Wednesday to "raise the issue of hate incitement against Israel and the west by the PA", citing examples such as official media denials of Israel's existence, the glorification of Palestinian terrorists and state media showing "a painting depicting Israel as an ogre with a star of David skullcap that impales and eats Palestinian children.

"Incitement to hate is pervasive in Palestinian school textbooks, on television programmes and at cultural and sporting events," he said.

The Sittingbourne MP expressed particular concern over the PA's payment of "a monthly salary to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons convicted of terror offences", which he said were "part-funded by the British taxpayer.

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