Open this photo in gallery: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas holds a joint press conference with the Turkish president after their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on July 25.ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images The United States and European Union on Thursday criticized remarks about the World War Two persecution of Jews and antisemitism 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, were “false and grossly misleading”. Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, called for an...