Borgermester av Paris, Anne Hidalgo, skriver i et brev til palestinernes president Mahmoud Abbas at han mister en prominent utmerkelse han har fått  fra byen pga av hans bagatellisering av Holocaust.

Abbas holdt en tale til seniormedarbeidere i Fatah i Ramallah sist måned. Noen tok et opptak og talen ble kjent forrige uke. Den vakte sterke reaksjoner. Hidalgo skriver:

“You (…) justified the extermination of the Jews of Europe during World War II with a clear desire to deny the genocide,” Hidalgo said in her letter.

“I vehemently condemn your remarks, no cause can justify revisionism and negationism,” she added.

Hva var det Abbas sa som opprørte Hiadalgo så sterkt? Han sa at jødene ikke ble drept fordi de var jøder men fordi de var pengeutlånere.

In a recent speech, Abbas repeated the unfounded claim that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had Jews slaughtered because of their “social role” as moneylenders, and said it was “not true” that “Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews.”

“They say that Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews. Not true. It was clearly explained that [the Europeans] fought [the Jews] because of their social role, and not their religion,” Abbas said in August. “The [Europeans] fought against these people because of their role in society, which had to do with usury, money and so on and so forth,” he continued.

Derned har Abbas pekt på en sosial årsak til at de ble utryddet, og denne årsaken tilskriver han dem selv. Han har dermed fjernet det unike ved Holocaust: at jødene ble drept qua jøder.

Abbas nevner også en annen myte som er vel så farlig: At Ashkenazi-jødene egentlig ikke er jøder. De er omvendte til jødedommen, men er i virkeligheten den tyrkiske stammen khazaarer.

Dette er en myte vi hører over alt og noen er åpenbart interessert i å spre den. Her har du to myter som begge angriper jødene på den nedrigste måte: Holocaust var selvforskyldt og hvis de er uekte jøder har de ingen rett til landet Palestina.

In his speech, Abbas also outlined the baseless theory that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from ancient Israelites but from an ancient Turkish people known as the Khazars, who according to a discredited theory converted to Judaism en masse.

“The truth that we should clarify to the world is that European Jews are not Semites,” Abbas said, according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “They have nothing to do with Semitism.”

“So when we hear them talk about Semitism and antisemitism, the Ashkenazi Jews, at least, are not Semites,” he added.

I den jødefiendtlige offentligheten som har vokst frem i Vest-Europa er det ikke lett å oppdage hvor giftig Abbas er. At Paris’ sosialistiske borgermester gjorde det er gledelig.

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