Palestinian president apologizes for anti-Semitic comments

JERUSALEM — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has walked back comments he made that accused Israeli rabbis of calling for the poisoning of Palestinian water wells. He apologized for offending Jewish people around the world with a classic anti-Semitic trope. During a speech he made Thursday at the European Parliament in Brussels, Abbas said: “Only a […]

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