In the meantime over in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas, the 'President' of the Palestinian regime, has covered himself in opprobrium because of a 'long, rambling' speech he gave:

The Palestinian leader’s long, rambling speech was laced with deeply anti-Semitic tropes, including that the Jews of Europe brought persecution and the Holocaust upon themselves because of usury, banking and their “social function.”
Israel, he said, grew out of a European colonial project that had nothing to do with Jewish history or aspirations.
And citing a widely discredited book from the 1970s by Arthur Koestler called “The Thirteenth Tribe,” he posited that Ashkenazi Jews were descended not from the biblical Israelites but from the Khazars, a Turkic people who converted to Judaism in the eighth century.

This simply sheds light on the thinking behind much of Palestinian, and by extention, Muslim, prejudice against Jews. It colours and confuses the land and 'occupation' issues because it reinforces the argument that the Jews are not children themselves of the Middle East, but total interlopers. This underpins much of the anti-Israel sentiment in the Arab/ Muslim Mideast, and most definitely links anti-Semitism to anti-Zionism.

Mahmoud Abbas after a week of criticism from Europeans and Americans, in the Christian part of the world, just came out with a lame statement of the nature of "if I have offended". But it casts light on the extremism held in the background of these supposedly 'freedom seeking' movements.