...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....has provoked widespread anger following comments in which he compared Israeli actions against Paleostinians to the Holocaust.
During a visit to Berlin on Tuesday, Abbas was asked by a journalist about his thoughts on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich massacre, when Paleostinian gang Black September took hostage and later killed members of the Israeli Olympic team.
In response, Abbas said that Israel had "committed 50 massacres in Paleostinian villages and cities" since 1947, referencing the war that preceded the creation of the State of Israel and the expulsion of more than 700,000 Paleostinians from their lands.
"In Deir Yassin, Tantura, Kafr Qasim and many others, 50 massacres, 50 Holocausts," he said at the joint presser with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
His comments provoked a backlash, with some accusing him of trivialising the Holocaust, a very sensitive issue in Germany.
Scholz did not respond to the "Holocaust" reference at the presser - however, on Wednesday he tweeted that he was "disgusted" by Abbas' comments.
"For us Germans in particular, any relativisation of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable," Scholz tweeted on Wednesday.
A German government spokesperson later said they had on Wednesday summoned the head of the Paleostinian diplomatic mission in Berlin over the remarks.