PA’s Erekat: Abbas did not deny massacres of Jews during Holocaust

2 May 2018, 8:09 pm

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Senior Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erekat defends the speech given by PA President Mahmoud Abbas earlier this week widely labeled as anti-Semitic, saying the Palestinian leader did not deny the massacres suffered by the Jews, including the Holocaust.

The statement comes as Abbas is under fire for the Monday address he gave before the Palestinian National Council in which he claimed that the Holocaust was the result of Jews’ own “social behavior” rather than anti-Semitism.

Erekat says that the PA president still “believes in peace, negotiations and the establishment of two states living in peace, security and good neighborliness.”