By JORDANA HORN, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
12/22/2011 02:33
Simon Wiesenthal Center asks UN cultural agency to halt its sponsorship of the Palestinian childrens’ magazine.
NEW YORK – The Simon Wiesenthal Center asked UNESCO’s director-general Wednesday to suspend its sponsorship of a Palestinian children’s magazine, saying the magazine applauded Hitler for murdering Jews.
According to Palestinian Media Watch, the educational children’s magazine, Zayafuna, “includes terms glorifying jihad.”
The PMW report references an essay in the magazine by a teenage Palestinian girl. The girl wrote about meeting Adolf Hitler in a dream, who tells her that he killed the Jews “so you would all know that they are a nation who spreads destruction all over the world.” In the essay, Hitler tells the child to be patient regarding the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of the Jews.