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'''Relations between Zionism and Nazism''' '': 1933 – 1945'' is the title of [[Mahmoud Abbas]]' [[Kandidat nauk|CandSc]] [[Thesis or dissertation|thesis]],<ref name=kom/> completed in 1982 at the [[Peoples' Friendship University of Russia|Patrice Lumumba University]], and defended at the [[Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences|Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences]]. {{rquote|right|The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.|Mahmoud Abbas|<ref name=Guardian>Chris McGreal: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/19/usa.israel Israel Arafat forced to give up most powers to new PM] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 19 March 2003.</ref>}} |
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Some content of his thesis has been considered as [[Holocaust denial]] by critics, especially the parts disputing the accepted number of deaths in the Holocaust as well as the accusations that Zionist agitation was the cause of the Holocaust <ref>[http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-03-denier.php A Holocaust-Denier as Prime Minister of "Palestine"?] by Dr. Rafael Medoff (The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)</ref><ref>[http://www.pmw.org.il/holocaust.htm PA Holocaust Denial] by Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch)</ref> a charge that he denies.<ref>Akiva Eldar, "U.S. told us to ignore Israeli map reservations", ''[[Haaretz]]'', 27 May 2003. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=297637&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y]</ref> |
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==Topics discussed== |
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It discussed topics such as the [[Haavara Agreement]], by which the Third Reich agreed with the [[Jewish Agency]] to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine. |
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<ref name=kom>[http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=538949 Аббас на глиняных ногах (Abbas on the feet of clay)], ''[[Kommersant]]-Vlast'' No. 2(605), 17.01.2005) {{ru icon}}</ref><ref name=gorelik>Vadim Gorelik (Вадим Горелик) [http://berkovich-zametki.com/2005/Zametki/Nomer11/Gorelik1.htm "Как товарищи Махмуд Аббас и Евгений Примаков Холокост отрицали"] ("Comarades' Mahmoud Abbas' and Yevgeniy Primakov's denial of the Holocaust") {{ru icon}}</ref> |
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==Soviet Palestine scholarship== |
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Its Russian title is "Связи между сионизмом и нацизмом. 1933 – 1945",<ref>[http://www.lenta.ru/lib/14161080/full.htm Аббас, Махмуд] (lenta.ru) {{ru icon}}</ref> or ''The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement''.<ref>[http://hnn.us/articles/1414.html Was Abu Mazen a Holocaust Denier?] By Brynn Malone (History News Network)</ref><ref>[http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sr&ID=SR01503 Abu Mazen: A Political Profile. Zionism and Holocaust Denial] by Yael Yehoshua ([[MEMRI]]) April 29, 2003</ref>) |
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The institute's director at the time, [[Yevgeny Primakov]], appointed a Soviet-Palestine scholar, Vladimir Ivanovich Kisilev ({{lang-ru|[[:ru:Киселёв, Владимир Иванович|Владимир Иванович Киселёв]]}}) as Abbas's dissertation adviser; he communicated with his student mostly in English and Arabic.<ref name=kom/>. In an interview with the ''[[Kommersant]]'' magazine twenty years later, Dr Kisilev remembers Abbas as well-prepared graduate student, who came to Moscow with an already chosen research topic and a large amount of already prepared material.<ref name=kom/> |
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==1984 book on the dissertation== |
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In 1984, a book based on Abbas's doctoral dissertation was published in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] by Dar Ibn Rushd publishers in [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]. His doctoral thesis later became a book, ''The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between [[Nazism]] and [[Zionism]]'', which, following his appointment as prime minister in 2003, was heavily criticised as an example of [[Holocaust denial]]. |
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==Views on the Holocaust== |
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In his book, Abbas described the [[The Holocaust|Nazi Holocaust]] as "The Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed."<ref>Arie Stav in the 1995 issue of the Israeli journal Nativ, as quoted by Charles A. Morse: [http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0403/0403nazipal.htm The Nazism of Abu Mazen] ''Enter Stage Right'' 14 April 2003.</ref> He also wrote: |
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"It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement, however, is to inflate this figure [of Holocaust deaths] so that their gains will be greater. This led them to emphasize this figure [six million] in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions—fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand."<ref>[http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-03-denier.php A Holocaust-Denier as Prime Minister of "Palestine"?] by Dr Rafael Medoff (The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)</ref><ref>[http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000032.html Abu Mazen and the Holocaust] by Tom Gross</ref><ref>[http://www.pmw.org.il/holocaust.htm PA Holocaust Denial] by Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch)</ref> |
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</blockquote> |
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==Number of Jews killed== |
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Additionally, he claimed that the much smaller number of Jews which he admitted that the Nazis did massacre were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot: |
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"The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination."<ref name=Guardian>Chris McGreal: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/19/usa.israel Arafat forced to give up most powers to new PM] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 19 March 2003.</ref> |
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</blockquote> |
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==Abbas' clarifications== |
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The California-based [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]] publicly called for Abbas to clarify his position on the Holocaust, but no clear statement was forthcoming. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper ''[[Maariv]]'' in the mid 90's Abbas tried to frame the issue in terms of [[realpolitik]]. "When I wrote ''The Other Side''…we were at war with Israel," Abbas said. "Today I would not have made such remarks…Today there is peace and what I write from now on must help advance the peace process."<ref>Ernst Zundel: [http://www.adl.org/holocaust/denial%5Fme/hdme%5Forigins.asp 1970s–1990s: Beginnings of Denial in Middle East] [[Anti-Defamation League]], 2001.</ref> |
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==Political controversy== |
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As Abbas was appointed prime minister, the [[Israel Defense Forces]] provided excerpts from the their new partner’s book, questioning the use of gas chambers and talking of less than one million victims, along with statements supporting terrorism.<ref name=Guardian/> The English translation of the book was also withdrawn by the Simon Wiesenthal Center prior to the signing of the [[Oslo Accords]] in 1993, after a request from the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the [[United States Department of State|American State Department]], according to Member of the [[Knesset]], [[Aryeh Eldad]].<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/40370 Trying To "Launder" Abu Mazen] ''[[Arutz Sheva|Arutz Sheva News Service]]'' 12 March 2003.</ref> |
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==May 2003 interview== |
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In his May 2003 interview with ''[[Haaretz]],'' Abbas stated: |
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"I wrote in detail about the Holocaust and said I did not want to discuss numbers. I quoted an argument between historians in which various numbers of casualties were mentioned. One wrote there were twelve million victims and another wrote there were 800,000. I have no desire to argue with the figures. The Holocaust was a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity that cannot be accepted by humankind. The Holocaust was a terrible thing and nobody can claim I denied it."<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=297637&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Interview with Mahmoud Abbas] by Akiva Eldar, ''Haaretz''. May 2003</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Anti-Zionism]] |
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[[Category:Nazism]] |
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[[Category:Palestinian nationalism]] |
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Revision as of 05:26, 27 September 2010
Relations between Zionism and Nazism : 1933 – 1945 is the title of Mahmoud Abbas' CandSc thesis,[1] completed in 1982 at the Patrice Lumumba University, and defended at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.
— Mahmoud Abbas, [2]
Some content of his thesis has been considered as Holocaust denial by critics, especially the parts disputing the accepted number of deaths in the Holocaust as well as the accusations that Zionist agitation was the cause of the Holocaust [3][4] a charge that he denies.[5]
Topics discussed
It discussed topics such as the Haavara Agreement, by which the Third Reich agreed with the Jewish Agency to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine. [1][6]
Soviet Palestine scholarship
Its Russian title is "Связи между сионизмом и нацизмом. 1933 – 1945",[7] or The Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement.[8][9])
The institute's director at the time, Yevgeny Primakov, appointed a Soviet-Palestine scholar, Vladimir Ivanovich Kisilev (Russian: Владимир Иванович Киселёв) as Abbas's dissertation adviser; he communicated with his student mostly in English and Arabic.[1]. In an interview with the Kommersant magazine twenty years later, Dr Kisilev remembers Abbas as well-prepared graduate student, who came to Moscow with an already chosen research topic and a large amount of already prepared material.[1]
1984 book on the dissertation
In 1984, a book based on Abbas's doctoral dissertation was published in Arabic by Dar Ibn Rushd publishers in Amman, Jordan. His doctoral thesis later became a book, The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism, which, following his appointment as prime minister in 2003, was heavily criticised as an example of Holocaust denial.
Views on the Holocaust
In his book, Abbas described the Nazi Holocaust as "The Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed."[10] He also wrote:
"It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement, however, is to inflate this figure [of Holocaust deaths] so that their gains will be greater. This led them to emphasize this figure [six million] in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions—fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand."[11][12][13]
Number of Jews killed
Additionally, he claimed that the much smaller number of Jews which he admitted that the Nazis did massacre were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot:
"The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination."[2]
Abbas' clarifications
The California-based Simon Wiesenthal Center publicly called for Abbas to clarify his position on the Holocaust, but no clear statement was forthcoming. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Maariv in the mid 90's Abbas tried to frame the issue in terms of realpolitik. "When I wrote The Other Side…we were at war with Israel," Abbas said. "Today I would not have made such remarks…Today there is peace and what I write from now on must help advance the peace process."[14]
Political controversy
As Abbas was appointed prime minister, the Israel Defense Forces provided excerpts from the their new partner’s book, questioning the use of gas chambers and talking of less than one million victims, along with statements supporting terrorism.[2] The English translation of the book was also withdrawn by the Simon Wiesenthal Center prior to the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, after a request from the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the American State Department, according to Member of the Knesset, Aryeh Eldad.[15]
May 2003 interview
In his May 2003 interview with Haaretz, Abbas stated:
"I wrote in detail about the Holocaust and said I did not want to discuss numbers. I quoted an argument between historians in which various numbers of casualties were mentioned. One wrote there were twelve million victims and another wrote there were 800,000. I have no desire to argue with the figures. The Holocaust was a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity that cannot be accepted by humankind. The Holocaust was a terrible thing and nobody can claim I denied it."[16]
References
- ^ a b c d Аббас на глиняных ногах (Abbas on the feet of clay), Kommersant-Vlast No. 2(605), 17.01.2005) Template:Ru icon
- ^ a b c Chris McGreal: Israel Arafat forced to give up most powers to new PM The Guardian 19 March 2003. Cite error: The named reference "Guardian" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ A Holocaust-Denier as Prime Minister of "Palestine"? by Dr. Rafael Medoff (The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)
- ^ PA Holocaust Denial by Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch)
- ^ Akiva Eldar, "U.S. told us to ignore Israeli map reservations", Haaretz, 27 May 2003. [1]
- ^ Vadim Gorelik (Вадим Горелик) "Как товарищи Махмуд Аббас и Евгений Примаков Холокост отрицали" ("Comarades' Mahmoud Abbas' and Yevgeniy Primakov's denial of the Holocaust") Template:Ru icon
- ^ Аббас, Махмуд (lenta.ru) Template:Ru icon
- ^ Was Abu Mazen a Holocaust Denier? By Brynn Malone (History News Network)
- ^ Abu Mazen: A Political Profile. Zionism and Holocaust Denial by Yael Yehoshua (MEMRI) April 29, 2003
- ^ Arie Stav in the 1995 issue of the Israeli journal Nativ, as quoted by Charles A. Morse: The Nazism of Abu Mazen Enter Stage Right 14 April 2003.
- ^ A Holocaust-Denier as Prime Minister of "Palestine"? by Dr Rafael Medoff (The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)
- ^ Abu Mazen and the Holocaust by Tom Gross
- ^ PA Holocaust Denial by Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch)
- ^ Ernst Zundel: 1970s–1990s: Beginnings of Denial in Middle East Anti-Defamation League, 2001.
- ^ Trying To "Launder" Abu Mazen Arutz Sheva News Service 12 March 2003.
- ^ Interview with Mahmoud Abbas by Akiva Eldar, Haaretz. May 2003