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US Jewish Groups From Across Political Spectrum Blast Palestinian Leader Abbas Over Antisemitism
by Benjamin Kerstein
May 2, 2018

US Jewish groups from across the political spectrum have issued condemnations of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ antisemitic statements made in a speech to the Palestinian National Council earlier this week. In the address on Monday, Abbas blamed the Jews for bringing the Holocaust upon themselves because of their practice of usuary and other aspects of their “social behavior.” He also claimed Ashkenazi Jews were not real Jews and therefore had no right to the Land of Israel. READ MORE

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