Mahmoud Abbas’s Outburst in Berlin Highlights a German Problem
Germany preaches about the importance of memorializing the Holocaust while turning a blind eye to Palestinian anti-Semitism.
August 23, 2022
Mahmoud Abbas’s Outburst in Berlin Highlights a German Problem
Germany preaches about the importance of memorializing the Holocaust while turning a blind eye to Palestinian anti-Semitism.
Few who have followed the career of the Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas were surprised that, while visiting Berlin last week, he not only refused to apologize for a Palestinian terrorist group’s massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich 50 years ago, but ranted about the “50 Holocausts” perpetrated by the Jewish state against Arabs. More telling, writes Ben Cohen, was the reaction of the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose country spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year propping up the PA:
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