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US antisemitism envoy slams Abbas’ ‘hateful’ Holocaust speech
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a conference focused on bans on ritual slaughter that have been proposed and approved in European countries in Brussels on October 20, 2022. (US State Department)
US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt slams Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s “hateful, antisemitic remarks” at a recent Fatah meeting during which he suggested that Hitler orchestrated the massacre of Jews during the Holocaust because of their “social role” as moneylenders.
“The speech maligned the Jewish people, distorted the Holocaust, and misrepresented the tragic exodus of Jews from Arab countries,” Lipstadt tweets.
“I condemn these statements and urge an immediate apology,” she adds.
