Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has frequently drawn the anger of the international community with remarks about the Nazi Holocaust, in which around six million Jews were murdered. Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images The United States and European Union on Thursday criticised remarks about the second World War persecution of Jews and anti-Semitism by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. In a statement, the EU’s diplomatic service said the 87-year-old Abbas’s remarks, made in late August to a meeting of his Fatah movement’s Revolutionary Council and later broadcast on Palestine television, were “false and grossly misleading”. Deborah Lipstadt, US Special Envoy to...