The Significance of Mahmoud Abbas’s Holocaust Denial
Westerners’ persistent refusal to take the Palestinian president for what he actually is.
August 19, 2022
The Significance of Mahmoud Abbas’s Holocaust Denial
Westerners’ persistent refusal to take the Palestinian president for what he actually is.
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, during an official visit to Berlin, gave a joint press conference with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, where he was asked by a journalist if he would apologize for the murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. (The relationship between the group that carried out the massacre and Abbas’s Fatah party remains murky.) Abbas instead responded by ranting about the “50 Holocausts” perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians. Stephen Pollard comments:
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