The Learned Scholar of Hate Dissemination

"They say that Hitler killed the Jews for being Jews, and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews."

"No. It was clearly explained that they fought them because of their social role and not their religion," 

"These people were fought because of their social function related to money, usury."

"From Hitler's point of view, they were sabotaging, and therefore he hated them." 

"The truth that we should spread to the world is that European Jews are not Semites. They have nothing to do with Semitism."

"As for the Eastern Jews, they are Semites [Mizrachi Jews from the wider Middle East]."

Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas

The Holocaust-denying Palestinian president ... Reuters

All this and more from the scholarly research undertaken by a man who received an academic doctorate from the Patrice Lamumba University in Russia for his investigative thesis examining the extent of the Holocaust at the hands of Nazi Germany during World War II. Germany's meticulous record-keeping of its state-sponsored elimination of Jews in its genocidal determination to rid Europe of what its propaganda arm cited as subhumans living among the Aryan elite of humanity verifies the extent and inhumanity of the extermination, but Abbas reached an 'unbiased' different conclusion.

 

In 1982, the Soviet Academy of Sciences under a special branch established for the coordination of what they held to be a global Zionist conspiracy to combat communism would grant doctoral status to Mahmoud Abbas, upon the defense of his thesis The Relationship Between Zionists and Nazis, 1933-1945. A dissertation in which he wrote of -- "Israel’s ruling Zionist regime—appears today in its most crude, expansionist and racist form. Violence, terror and extremism are becoming Zionists’ main methods of action". An apt-enough descriptive of Palestinian Fatah and Hamas terrorist groups today.

 

"All honest people of the planet must fight 'the hateful ideology and practice of racism … against racial and national discrimination, Zionism and antisemitism, which are fomented by capitalist reactionary forces'", he wrote. As for the Holocaust, he wrote, Zionist leaders had a choice: "Either declare a war against Nazism and throw all of [the movement’s] resources into the war in the name of saving hundreds of thousands or millions of Jewish lives, or use the annihilation of the Jewish population in European countries occupied by Nazi Germany to implement the Zionist ideal of mass colonization of Palestine and create a Jewish state on its territory. And Zionist leaders chose the latter."

 

Ergo, Jewish 'collaboration' with the Nazi regime was responsible for the outcome of the Holocaust. To be used as a cudgel against the world conscience on the extermination of six million Jews, to justify the Zionist drive to 'occupy' Judaean ancestral lands in a rebirth of Israel, and in the process these modern-day imperialist colonists wrenched the land from its 'rightful' owners, the migrant Arabs from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East seeking opportunities to prosper. And just coincidentally imposing bloody pogroms on Jews who never left their ancient homeland.

On this more recent occasion, President Abbas set about distorting history and promoting his usual antisemitic stereotypes in a speech to senior members of his Fatah movement. In essence, defending Adolf Hitler for killing European Jews, not as an act of antisemitism but entirely related to their "social functions" within society, naming money-lending as a leading trait of Jewish infamy, a hoary old trope that never fails to resonate with Jew-haters. And this, from a man who has hived off millions in his personal bank accounts from international funding meant to improve the lives of Palestinians.

The Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington think tank founded by Israeli analysts -- famous for interpreting into English a multitude of speeches made in Arabic demonizing and condemning Israel and Jews and inciting to violence against them -- translated this speech as it does others to inform Western audiences. The U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism was appalled by what she named Abbas's "hateful, antisemitic remarks". Abbas maligned Jews and distorted the Holocaust she said, calling for an apology.

Germany's ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, spoke of Abbas's speech as "an insult to the memory of millions of murdered men, women and children. The Palestinians deserve to hear the historical truth from their leader, not such distortions", he said. The comments "trivialize the Holocaust and thereby fuel antisemitism", noted the European Union's statement in response to the Palestinian Authority President's hateful speech. None of which will stop them from funding this verbal terrorist who uses that funding to reward the Palestinians he incites to murder Jews.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last year condemned Abbas for accusing Israel of committing "50 Holocausts" against the Palestinians; presumably by defending itself from violent Palestinian assaults against Jews in Israel. In 2017 following a speech where Abbas claimed Jewish money lending caused animosity toward them in Europe, while dismissing Jewish connection to the Holy Land, he was similarly censured. His statements currently in lock-step with his 1980s doctoral thesis where he questioned the extent of the Nazi genocide.

This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943. This image is titled "The last Jew in Vinnitsa", the text that was written on the back of the photograph, which was found in a photo album belonging to a German soldier.  AP Photo/USHMM/LOC