From Ian:
PMW: Jews` usury caused Antisemitism - speech by PA Chairman Abbas
German Newspaper’s Israeli Flag Test Yields ‘Frightening Results’
PMW: Jews` usury caused Antisemitism - speech by PA Chairman Abbas
The main antisemitic elements of his talk were:
1. The Jews brought Antisemitism upon themselves because of their "social roles" connected to "usury and banks"
2. It was this Jewish behavior that led to "massacres by some state every 10 to 15 years from the 11th century until the Holocaust"
In addition, Abbas denied Jewish history and the connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel. He argued that Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of the Khazar Kingdom - "a Tatar-Turkic state" - who have no connection to the 12 tribes of Jacob in the Bible. He rejected completely any Jewish connection to the land of Israel:
"They are talking about longing for Zion and that's why they are going [there] and so forth. I say - not me, rather history says that these words are baseless."
[Official PA TV, April 30, 2018]
The following are the main parts of Abbas' talk concerning these subjects. Abbas defends his antisemitic claims, citing Jewish sources for some of his remarks. (See below):
1/3 PA President Mahmoud Abbas: Holocaust, Massacres of European Jews Due to Their Function in Society as Usurers Hitler Struck a Deal with the Jews pic.twitter.com/qAkCvH8SzL
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 2, 2018
2/3 PA President Mahmoud Abbas: Hitler Struck a Deal with the Jews pic.twitter.com/uV6Qsl3dJR
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 2, 2018
3/3 PA President Mahmoud Abbas: The U.S. Behind the Arab Spring pic.twitter.com/ihyYC42YiD
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 2, 2018
German Newspaper’s Israeli Flag Test Yields ‘Frightening Results’
As Germans continue to probe the connection between antisemitism and hostility to Israel in the wake of recent antisemitic incidents across the country, a leading newspaper on Monday carried out a live experiment to determine how long an Israeli flag could be displayed in major urban thoroughfares before being removed.
Israeli flags hung in three locations by reporters from the Bild newspaper were removed within ninety minutes by individuals who happened to be passing by, video revealed.
“The results are frightening,” the newspaper reported. “At the Hermannplatz in Berlin-Neukölln, the Israel flag flew for 42 minutes, for 61 minutes in Munich’s Bahnhofsviertel, and for 81 minutes in the center of Frankfurt.”
Video shot in Munich caught two men walking past an Israeli flag draped over a bicycle railing. Moments later, the men returned and angrily tore the flag down. Meanwhile in Berlin, two youths were filmed at the entrance to a rail station ripping the flag and throwing it to the ground, before one of them tried – and failed – to set it on fire with a cigarette lighter.
German politicians from across the spectrum interviewed by Bild were unanimous in their condemnation of the flag removals.
“The tearing down of the Israeli flag is something we will not tolerate in Germany,” Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told the paper. “We will clearly stand against any form of antisemitism.” His colleague Horst Seehofer, the Interior Minister, pledged to show “zero tolerance” for antisemitic displays.



























