Many have heard the story of how Abbas, as a
doctoral candidate at Moscow´s Oriental College in
1982, wrote a thesis suggesting far fewer than 6
million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. But,
Abbas did much more than that. He actually accused
the Jews of conspiring with Adolph Hitler to
annihilate European Jewry. He accused the Jews of
deliberately inflating the numbers of those killed
in concentration camps to pave the way for a
Jewish state. He may have been one of the first to
equate Zionism with Nazism.

"The Zionist movement´s stake in inflating the
number of murdered in the war was aimed at
ensuring great gains," he wrote, adding that "this
led to confirm the number [6 million] to establish
it in world opinion, and, by so doing, to arouse
more pangs of conscience and sympathy for Zionism
in general."

In the version of his doctoral paper later
published under the title, "The Other Side: The
Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist
Movement," Abbas denied the German use of gas
chambers and suggested the total number of Jews
killed was fewer than 1 million.

But perhaps the most horrifying and revolting
charge by Abbas is that Zionists were complicit
with the Nazis in the murder of Jews.

"The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of
incitement against the Jews living under Nazi
rule, in order to arouse the government´s hatred
of them, to fuel vengeance against them, and to
expand the mass extermination," Abbas wrote.

Abbas has danced around this treatise for many
years. He has attempted to put it in perspective.
He has tried to explain what he really meant when
he denied 6 million Jews were murdered. But he has
never publicly retracted his accusation that
Zionists collaborated with the Nazis in the
extermination of Jews.

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