Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, August 18, 2020. Photo by Flash90
In May 1982, a Palestinian doctoral candidate at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University completed his dissertation. The work, titled,”The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism,” presented stark claims: that Zionist leaders were “basic partners in crime” with the Nazis, that the movement deliberately incited Nazi hatred against Jews to fuel mass extermination, that the widely accepted figure of six million Holocaust victims was a “fantastic lie,” and that Zionism shared ideological parallels with Nazi racial theories. The student even argued that the 1942 Biltmore Conference had provoked Hitler into accelerating the Final Solution. The candidate’s controversial thesis earned him a Candidate of Sciences degree, equivalent to a PhD in Western universities.
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