![]() ![]() ![]() Jibril Rajoub, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and former Palestinian Authority security chief, asserted on Jthat “it was the Nazis, not us, who did the Holocaust to them… We are paying the price for Europe’s crimes against them in the previous century.” 3 Likewise, PLO official Husam Zomlot recently stated that “the Nazis were responsible for it. It is therefore not incumbent upon Palestinians to pay in our lives, lands, and livelihoods the price for relieving Europe’s conscience of its collective guilt over the Holocaust. …Palestinians-and Arabs more generally-bear no responsibility whatsoever for the Holocaust, a European genocide committed against mostly European Jews, Roma, and Slavs, among others. 1 For example, Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti writes as follows: Palestinians insist that the Holocaust is a purely Western and Christian crime that has nothing to do with them or other Arabs. One of the major Palestinian Arab arguments regarding the establishment of the state of Israel is that the West facilitated its founding out of guilt over the Holocaust. ![]()
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