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Palestinian intellectuals condemn Mahmoud Abbas’s antisemitic comments
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In a televised speech to fellow members of Abbas’s Fatah, the occupied West Bank’s ruling political party, the 87-year-old said that Adolf Hitler killed European Jews in the Holocaust not because of antisemitism, but because of their “social role” in society, such as money lending.
The comments, made last month, caused international uproar after they were translated into English and published last Wednesday by the Middle East Media Research Institute, a pro-Israel press monitoring organisation based in the US.
Although he is viewed as a major architect of the Oslo peace process in the 1990s and was an early Fatah advocate for dialogue with the Israelis, Abbas has been accused of antisemitism on numerous occasions.
The year before, he caused international outrage after claiming Israel had carried out “50 Holocausts” against the Palestinians during a news conference in Berlin with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz.
Abbas’s spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, has denounced the “rabid campaign” against the Palestinian president, saying that the leader’s position is “clear and documented, which is the complete condemnation of the Holocaust and the rejection of antisemitism”.
“The Palestinian people are sufficiently burdened by Israeli settler colonialism, dispossession, occupation, and oppression without having to bear the negative effect of such ignorant and profoundly antisemitic narratives perpetuated by those who claim to speak in our name,” the open letter added.
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