Abbas: Hitler killed Jews for money laundering, they are not Semites

Mahmoud Abbas claimed that European Jews had no historic ties to the land of Israel and were not Semites. Ashkenazi Jews stem from Europe, not the Middle East, and were murdered during the Holocaust due to hatred against them for their historic role as money lenders, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech that sparked an international furor. Nazi leader Adolph Hitler said “he fought the Jews because they were dealing with users and money,”