UN envoy calls on secretary-general to condemn Abbas speech

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon writes a letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling on him to condemn PA President Mahmoud Abbas “hateful speech.”

“Among the many vile fabrications in his address, Chairman Abbas repeated the lie that the reestablishment of the nation-state of the Jewish people in our historic homeland is ‘a colonial project that has nothing to do with Judaism.’ Chairman Abbas also accused European powers of ‘moving Jews from Europe to the Middle East’ as part of a plan to further their economic interests. These statements sadly remind us of the racist words of the worst regimes of the previous century,” wrote Dannon.

“The hateful words of the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, which seem to question the very right of a United Nations member-state to exist, are completely unacceptable and must be unequivocally condemned,” he adds.