Under-fire Netanyahu criticised over 'a form of Holocaust denial'
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked uproar in Israel yesterday for suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader convinced the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate European Jews.
Holocaust experts slammed Netanyahu's comments as historically inaccurate and serving the interests of Holocaust deniers by lessening the responsibility of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Critics also said the statement amounts to incitement against modern-day Palestinians in the midst of a wave of violent unrest and Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
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