Bassem Eid: ‚Fifty Holocausts‘ remark proves Palestinian Authority head must go | Opinion | Newsweek

Sometimes a world leader’s toxicity is clear for all to see. Such a moment arrived for the Palestinian Authority’s (PA’s) Mahmoud Abbas on Aug. 16, when standing alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, he outrageously claimed that Israel had committed „50 Holocausts“ against the Palestinians. Granted that dictatorships habitually rule by misdirecting the misery of their subjects, but so gross a distortion—and in such a venue—had consequences. Scholz later tweeted: „I am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. For us Germans in particular, any relativization of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable. I condemn any attempt to deny the crimes of the Holocaust.“