BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday expressed disgust at statements made the day before by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that the German leader said downplayed the significance of the Holocaust.
“For us Germans in particular, any relativization of the uniqueness of the Holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable,” Olaf Scholz wrote on Twitter. “I am disgusted by the outrageous remarks made by (Palestinian Authority) President Mahmoud Abbas.”
During a visit to Berlin on Tuesday, he accused the Jewish state of having committed “50 Holocausts” in response to a question about the commemoration of the attack on Team Israel by Palestinian militants during the Munich Olympics in 1972.
“From 1947 to today, Israel has committed 50 massacres in Palestinian villages and towns, in Deir Yassin, Tantura, Kafr Qasim and many others, 50 massacres, 50 Holocausts,” said Mahmoud Abbas.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid also condemned the remarks, calling them a “shame” and a “monstrous lie”.
(Report Miranda Murray in Berlin and James Mackenzie in Jerusalem, French version Laetitia Volga, edited by Kate Entringer)
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