Abu Mazen: Diminishing the Holocaust - a form of 'Holocaust Denial

Submitted by Jack D H (United States), Aug 8, 2022 at 23:31

The leader of the Palestinian Authority, the Muslim-bigot Abu Mazen. Asides from snatching out the guilt from the Nazis, he also questioned the numbers.

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BTW

Here is an excerpt by famous historian orientalist Edy Cohen:

"Abu Mazen's Z..... Nazis"

Edy Cohen | 23/06/2014

'Is Abu Mazen a Holocaust denier or not? Dr. Edi Cohen delved deeply into his infamous doctorate to answer that question. What he found may shock you....

Conspiracy, Lies and Propaganda

Reality is no bar to Abbas, and any and all facts or sources which contradict what he says are either denied or hidden. What is true of the Holocaust is also true of his treatment of Jews from Arab lands. According to him, Jews did not suffer from persecution, but on the contrary enjoyed privileges granted by colonialist British and French masters. Under the heading "Antisemitism in Semitic countries?" (p. 236) Abu Mazen goes on to slander Mizrahi Jews, deliberately ignoring the years of verbal and physical persecution they endured for years, and stating categorically that there is no anti-Semitism in Arab countries. While he states the number of Jews in these countries is shrinking, somehow the reasons for this slip his mind.
The mass expulsion of Jews from Arab countries simply didn't happen a la Abbas: the basic and well-established historical facts of expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Egypt, Iraq, Lybia, Yemen and Algeria, the murder of hundreds in pogroms and mass expropriation of their property are all inconvenient facts to be ignored.
Abbas sometimes openly contradicts himself. When he discusses the positions of the Zionist movement regarding the Holocaust ...'

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