Panning Abbas’s anti-Semitic rant, German FM says his country responsible for Holocaust

2 May 2018, 3:50 pm

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Condemning a speech from Mahmoud Abbas in which the Palestinian Authority president claimed that the Holocaust was not the result of anti-Semitism, Germany’s Foreign Minister asserts that his country was responsible for “one of the worst crimes in history.

“Therefore, we must respond resolutely to any anti-Semitic expression,” says Heiku Maas, in reference to Abbas’s address in front of the Palestinian National Council on Monday.

Among the Palestinian leader’s claims in the speech were that Adolf Hitler facilitated the immigration of Jews to Israel by reaching a deal with the Anglo-Palestine Bank (today Bank Leumi) under which Jews who moved to the British Mandate of Palestine could transfer all their assets there through the bank.