PA presidential advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash defended Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s statement, according to which Israel has committed “50 holocausts” against Palestinians in an address that was aired on Palestine TV on August 17, 2022.
He said that all the leaders of the Israeli occupation joined together in attacking Abbas, because he is defending his people and he wants to remind the world of the massacres against them.
Al-Habbash added that the Israelis “want us to forget history, while they want the world to remember a history which is mostly forged, exaggerated, fabricated, with no basis in reality.” He further said that saying these things cannot be considered “antisemitism” because the Palestinians are the “genuine Semites,” as reflected in their names and cities.
