"The PA pays terrorists' families — 'pay for slay' proves they celebrate murder."
Their strongest version
The Palestinian Authority long paid stipends scaled to sentence length for prisoners including those convicted of deadly attacks — a system criticized internationally and by Palestinians, and cited in US law (Taylor Force Act).
The response
Don't deny the record — the prisoner-payment system existed, was rightly criticized, and drew US sanctions. Then update it, because the slogan is frozen in time: Abbas signed a decree in February 2025 abolishing the sentence-linked system and moving families to need-based welfare — a reform Washington demanded for a decade. The honest context that remains: with roughly one in five Palestinian men having passed through Israeli custody since 1967, many under military courts with a near-total conviction rate and thousands held without charge, 'prisoner's family' in Palestinian society describes a vast civilian population, not a terrorist aristocracy — which is what the stipends were, badly, trying to address. And the incitement ledger has two columns: cabinet ministers calling to wipe out towns and settlers burning mosques with impunity are state-adjacent incitement with body counts. Judge both societies by the same test — what does power reward? — and insist the reformed standard hold.