Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat says he is “deeply disturbed” by accusations of anti-Semitism leveled at PA President Mahmoud Abbas after he suggested earlier this week that Jewish “social function” lead to the Holocaust.
“President Abbas has repeatedly referred to the Holocaust as the most heinous crime in history,” says Erekat, according to the official news agency Wafa. “President Abbas is a man of peace who has dedicated his entire political career to finding a just and lasting peace based on International Law, freedom, justice, equality, and coexistence between Israel and Palestine.”
He says Palestinians’ problem “is not with Judaism but with the systematic denial of our rights committed by Israel.”
Abbas drew widespread condemnation, including from the European Union and the United States, over comments suggesting that Jews’ relations with banking had led to the hostility against them.
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