Israel/Palestine

Mosby

(19,491 posts) Tue Dec 12, 2023, 07:43 PM Dec 2023

Berlin finds Abbas's 2022 Holocaust remarks incite hatred, but can't pursue charges

Berlin prosecutors said Monday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s comments on the Holocaust during a visit last year amounted to inciting racial hatred, but they won’t pursue a criminal case due to his diplomatic immunity — even though Germany does not recognize the Palestinian Authority as a state.

Police in Berlin launched a probe “on suspicion of inciting hatred” in August 2022 on the basis of two complaints accusing Abbas of “relativizing the Holocaust” during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The Berlin prosecutor’s office said in a statement it had reached the conclusion that “Abbas had committed the crime of inciting racial hatred” but enjoyed “immunity so that there is an obstacle to him being tried.”

At the press conference with Scholz last year, Abbas accused Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians since 1947.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/berlin-finds-abbass-2022-holocaust-remarks-incite-hatred-but-cant-pursue-charges/

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Berlin finds Abbas's 2022 Holocaust remarks incite hatred, but can't pursue charges (Original Post) Mosby Dec 2023 OP

Maybe he can get a gig at Harvard next The Mouth Dec 2023 #1

So Abbas sabbat hunter Dec 2023 #2

The Mouth

(3,416 posts)

1. Maybe he can get a gig at Harvard next

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Wed Dec 13, 2023, 06:57 PM

Dec 2023

sabbat hunter

(7,115 posts)

2. So Abbas

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Sun Dec 17, 2023, 09:13 AM

Dec 2023

is claiming Israel killed 300,000,000 Palestinians since 1947?

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