- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has drawn wide rebuke for suggesting that the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II was brought on by the financial practices of Jewish Europeans.
- Abbas said, in reference to the Holocaust, "the Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe was not against their religion but against their social function which relates to usury [money-lending] and banking and such."
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the European Union's foreign service both condemned the comments as anti-Semitic.
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Palestinian leader Abbas roundly condemned for saying Holocaust caused by Jewish financial activity
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said, in reference to the Holocaust, "the Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe was not against their religion but against their social function which relates to usury [money-lending] and banking and such."
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has drawn wide rebuke for suggesting that the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II was brought on by the financial practices of Jewish Europeans.
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