​(Communicated by MFA Spokesperson's Bureau)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly rejects the Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic content of the speech delivered by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas yesterday (Tuesday, 1 May 2018) before the Palestinian legislature in Ramallah and broadcast live on television. In the speech, Chairman Abbas blamed the Jews for their own destruction, using anti-Semitic stereotypes and accusations taken from the lexicon of classic antisemitism.

National leadership driven by such an ideology is unacceptable, and the shockingly anti-Semitic statements expressed repeatedly by the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority cannot and should not be tolerated.