“Once a Holocaust denier, always a Holocaust denier,” the Israeli prime minister said of Abbas on Twitter on Wednesday. At one point during his speech, Abbas erroneously said Joseph Stalin was Jewish. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum dismissed the claims as “grossly inaccurate and an insidious type of antisemitism”. Greenblatt said:Jason D. Greenblatt (@jdgreenblatt45) President Abbas’ remarks yesterday in Ramallah at the opening of the Palestinian National Congress must be unconditionally condemned by all. Is that antisemitism or political discourse?”Abbas has been accused of antisemitism in the past, including in 2016 following a speech to the European parliament.

Source: The Guardian May 02, 2018 08:58 UTC