A slew of additional rejections of the letter have been released, and they are most instructive.
The Secretary-General of the People's Party, Bassam Al-Salhi, said that the letter helps the Israelis. Then he said that if there is any disagreement with the Palestinian leadership, don't say it in public:
He said he statement, in terms of timing, content and purpose, is very harmful and unacceptable and should not have been issued by these circles, adding, “If these parties have any observations on internal Palestinian affairs, they must be directed within the Palestinian internal framework, so that it does not become one of the tools for exploitation.”
Al-Salhi added that World War II affected peoples in the world, and millions were lost during it, and it was not directed against the Jews, but rather a fascist imperialist war against the peoples.
A member of the PFLP's political bureau, Maher Mezher, said that the Popular Front denounces the issued statement, which does not represent true intellectuals and writers, and that the faction that issued it must essentially side with the Palestinian people.
He said that "what the president spoke represented the Palestinian narrative, while what this group spoke did not represent the people, their narrative, and their struggle."
The spokesman for the Fatah movement Mobilization and Organization Commission, Abdel Fattah Dawla, said, “What was described in the statement of expatriate academics, writers, and activists does not reflect an educated academic and research mentality that is good at reading history, texts, and speeches." he added that Israel "carried out the most horrific massacres in our contemporary history, " not the Nazis
He called on the local media not to provide any media platform for everything that might distort the Palestinian narrative, scene, and word, and to deal carefully with such statements that do not serve our people, their right, and their cause.
Writer and political analyst Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul said, “The academics’ statement is a complicit and very offensive statement to the national struggle, and whoever issued the statement is ignorant of history. Whoever condemns the president’s speech has not read history and is trying to market himself in the capitalist and Zionist West’s market.”
Al-Ghoul added, "The statement is an infringement on national rights and principles and achieves the interests of the occupation and the Israeli-American vision."
Al-Ghoul pointed out that in many studies there is “skepticism about the number of 6 million people killed in the Holocaust, as some Jews said that the number of victims of the Holocaust did not reach 6 million, and some of them said that it did not exceed a million, knowing that the victims of World War II amounted to 50 million people,20 One million of them are from the Soviet Union." He also pointed out that "there are many studies that point to the complicity of Zionism with Nazi Hitler."
Writer Nabil Dweikat said, "It has already become a well-known story that the Zionist movement itself conspired with the Nazis against the Jews of Europe in order to push them to immigrate to Palestine. "
So in short, the arguments are:
1. Pointing out Abbas' antisemitism is an anti-Palestinian position.
2. Never say anything divisive in public.
3. Abbas is right, and Jews really are responsible for the Holocaust.
4. The narrative is far more important than the truth.
5. Zionist crimes are far worse than the Holocaust.
6. Zionists conspired with Nazis against Jews.
7. You must never, ever criticize Palestinians - only Israel, constantly.
8. Any Palestinian in the West who criticizes Abbas is really a Zionist stooge trying to make money.
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