Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the pleary session of the 6th CICA Summit on October 13, 2022 in Astana, Kazakhstan. (Photo by Getty Images)
What’s behind Mahmoud Abbas’ controversial claims on the Holocaust?
Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas caused a firestorm when he said that Hitler murdered 6 million Jews not because of antisemitism, but because of their “social roles” as moneylenders. Abbas’ statements have received widespread backlash and brought his decades of pushing of Holocaust conspiracy theories to the forefront.