"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 payments and moving families to need-based welfare — a reform Washington had demanded for a decade. Here's the context that remains. Roughly one in five Palestinian men has passed through Israeli custody since 1967, many under military courts with a near-total conviction rate, thousands held without charge. In that reality, 'a prisoner's family' describes a vast civilian population, not a terrorist aristocracy — which is what the stipends were, badly, trying to address. And incitement has two columns: 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 hold the reformed standard.