A Palestinian children’s television show “Tomorrow’s Pioneers” which had 21 episodes that were created from 2007 to 2009 focused on creating violent incitement against Jews and Westerners, including advocating for the children in its audience to be suicide bombers. The show featured adults dressed in costumes who interacted with children on the set in a format similar to the shows “Sesame Street” and “Barney,” and it allowed children to call in from home.
[Note: December 19, 2023— The Wikipedia page for the show says it was created between 2007 to 2009, however this video clip that was recorded in 2022 is in a modern video format— if it is not actually the “Tomorrow’s Pioneers” show then it is a new show that is exactly like it. The original episodes of the show have apparently continued to air on Palestinian television in reruns since their creation, and the show apparently also has an international audience in places such as Europe.]
In this episode of the show, the children of a female suicide bomber Reem Riyashi who (actually) killed herself and others in a terrorist bombing attack are featured, where they show a video reenactment of her actions for the children in the television audience to watch. The child host of the show is then shown saying, “These are the children of the Shahid [Martyr] the heroic Jihad fighter who sacrificed all that she had for her homeland. She cared less about her own flesh and blood and for their sake, she sacrificed [herself] for Allah. We say to the occupier, that we will continue in the footsteps of the Shahida [Martyr], the Jihad fighter Reem Riyashi, until we liberate our homeland from your hands, usurper.”’
This this episode, a girl calls into the broadcast saying she is from Holland, where she and the children on the set sing a song entitled “When We Become Martyrs,” which has the lyrics: “When we get martyred we will go to Paradise. No, don’t say we are too small. This life has made us grown-ups. Without Palestine our childhood means nothing. Even if they gave us all the money in the world, it won’t make us forget. I am willing to sacrifice my blood for my country.”
This video clip, a nine year old girl calls into the show to recite a passage from a Hadith that advocates to kill Jews. [Note the person who posted this video clip edited out the portions of the Hadith that specifically advocated to kill Jews.]
This video clip shows sections from two episodes of the show, where in the first episode it shows a recurring Mickey Mouse-lookalike main character named “Farfour” who is being given the “keys” to his ancestral land by his “grandfather” who was on his deathbed, and then another episode is shown where Farfour was killed by an Israeli because he refused to sell his land to him.
[Note: In the episodes after this one, Farfour was never revived but he was replaced by a bumblebee character named “Nahol,” however Farfour was sometimes still mentioned along with the fact that he was killed by a Jew. When Nahol was introduced, he said, “I want to continue in the path of Farfour – the path of Islam, of heroism, of martyrdom, of the mujahideen,” and the character constantly expressed terrorist views. Nahol then died in the show because he was sick and in need of an operation but he was blocked from reaching a hospital in Egypt by the Israelis.
Nahol was then replaced in the show with a Bugs Bunny-type character named Assoud who said he will “will finish off the Jews and eat them.” On his deathbed after being injured in an Israeli attack he instructed the children in the audience that they must fight and die to liberate iberate Haifa, Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.
The final co-host of the show was a brown bear named Nassur who claims to have come to the Gaza Strip to become one of the mujahideen and to defend the children of Palestine, although he gives evidence that he may have come from Iran.]