Israel’s Knesset approved a motion to pursue all Holocaust deniers. The motion, presented by the National Union party, singled out the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who wrote a doctoral thesis at the University of Moscow in which he questioned the idea that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and accused the Zionists of working with the Nazis.
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