Various Israeli politicians and personalities attacked a massive campaign of incitement against President Mahmoud Abbas, after publishing a video clip of him from a speech he delivered before the Fatah Revolutionary Council in its recent meetings in Ramallah.

President Abbas was talking about what is known as the "Holocaust" against European Jews, by Hitler, and he indicated that Hitler killed the Jews not because they were Jews, but because of their social status and usurious loans and others, and that they were not Semites, and had nothing to do with it, and that Hitler killed them because He (i.e. Hitler) considered that they were corrupting European society.

It is known that President Abbas holds a doctorate in political science, and his thesis was about the secret relations between Nazi Germany and the Zionist movement.

In response, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said that this statement expresses the true face of the Palestinian leadership, and just as Abbas blames the Jews for the Holocaust, he blames the Jews for all the problems of the Middle East, accusing President Abbas of spreading anti-Semitism and continuing to support Palestinian “terrorists”  to kill the Israelians.

Meanwhile, the leader of Yisrael Beytenu Party, Avigdor Lieberman, described President Abbas's statements as "scandalous and anti-Semitic speech," accusing President Abbas of being a staunch supporter of "terrorism," and that he is working to prosecute Israeli soldiers in international courts on charges of war crimes.

Lieberman added: "Abu Mazen also published a full doctoral dissertation on Holocaust denial, and today he proved once again that he is an extremist man, who is the sworn enemy of the State of Israel."

The Yad Vashem Museum, Israel's ambassador to Germany, and a number of its ambassadors in Europe also attacked President Abbas, accusing him of inciting against the Jews and denying "the truth of the Holocaust," according to their claim.

It was noted that the official government political level among the ministers of Benjamin Netanyahu's government did not comment until hours this morning on that issue.