This decision by the Berlin public prosecutor’s office will make the anti-Semitic Palestinian President cheer!
It was a huge scandal in the Chancellery: Mahmud Abbas (87), President of the Palestinian Authority, put the Holocaust into perspective in a press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (64, SPD). Abbas accused Israel of committing “50 holocausts” against the Palestinians. He accused the Jewish state of committing worse crimes than the National Socialists, who murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust.
For German politicians and experts from all over the world it was clear: Abbas’ statement in the Chancellery was blatant anti-Semitism and a clear relativization of the Holocaust. Scholz, who was initially silent at the press conference with Abbas, later accused Abbas of “relativizing the Holocaust” and trying to “deny the crimes of the Holocaust”.
However, the Berlin public prosecutor’s office does not want to see any incitement to hatred or a relativization of the Holocaust in Abbas’ absurd accusation.
In a two-page letter (exclusively available to BILD), the Berlin public prosecutor’s office explains why they do NOT want to investigate Abbas despite a complaint from Berlin’s Mike Delberg (32).
Justification: There are “insufficient indications” for criminal liability under Section 130 (approval, denial and trivialization of Nazi crimes). According to the Berlin public prosecutor’s office, Abbas’s sole aim was “to highlight what he believed to be the crimes committed by the Israeli army and to point out their injustice, while attempting a historically extremely inappropriate comparison.”
In other words, the accusation that the Jewish state committed “50 holocausts” against the Palestinians is not a relativization of the mass murder of six million Jews for the public prosecutor’s office, but only an inappropriate comparison.
50 holocausts would mean that Israel industrially murdered 300 million Palestinians. In fact, there was no genocide against the Palestinians. The Palestinian population has multiplied since Israel’s founding.
Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews, expresses clear criticism of the Berlin public prosecutor’s office
Central Council President Schuster: “Difficult to understand”
︎ Josef Schuster (68), President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has little understanding for the decision of the Berlin public prosecutor’s office. “It is difficult to understand that Mahmud Abbas’ statements in the Federal Chancellery should not have any legal consequences,” Schuster told BILD.
“It is a missed opportunity to name and pursue the Palestinian President’s obvious relativization of the Shoah as such,” Schuster clarifies. “The much-vaunted fight against anti-Semitism and relativization of the Shoah also and especially applies to the law enforcement authorities.” There should be “no bonus for heads of government”.
︎ The lawyer Nathan Gelbart, who has represented victims of anti-Semitic discrimination for many years, is also stunned. “It is not only scandalous that the Berlin public prosecutor’s office, with its embarrassing and legally untenable order to discontinue, makes itself into Abbas’ vassal,” said Gelbart to BILD. “The reasoning that can be read there shows historical dilettantism when the fight of the Israeli Defense Forces against guerrilla groups murdering civilians is equated with the Holocaust.”
According to Gelbart, “the Holocaust survivors living in Germany and their descendants are directly and directly affected” by Abbas’ Holocaust equation. The setting borders on “maliciousness and historical insensitivity”.
Abbas was not the first to comment on the Holocaust; in his doctoral thesis he already dealt with “secret relations between Nazism and the leadership of the Zionist movement”.
As the conspiracy theory title already suggests, he is concerned with relativizing the Holocaust by assuming a (fictitious) collaboration between Zionists and Nazis.
︎ Berliner Mike Dellberg, who got the ad rolling, is outraged by the decision of the public prosecutor’s office: “I am very disappointed with the letter from the public prosecutor. It leaves a stale aftertaste: In Germany it is apparently okay to put the Holocaust into perspective when comparing alleged injustices by the State of Israel with it.”