"Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Monday urged the secretary general to condemn Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's speech a day earlier, in which he denied the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
'Among the many vile fabrications in his address...Abbas repeated the lie that the reestablishment of the nation-state of the Jewish people in our historic homeland is 'a colonial project that has nothing to do with Judaism,' Danon wrote, in a letter to Antonio Guterres.
'Abbas also accused European powers of 'moving Jews from Europe to the Middle East' as part of a plan to further their economic interests. These statements sadly remind us of the racist words of the worst regimes of the previous century,' he said...
'The hateful words of the (president) of the Palestinian Authority, which seem to question the very right of a United Nations member-state to exist, are completely unacceptable and must be unequivocally condemned,' Danon stated.
Abbas's speech Sunday night, in which he angrily rejected US President Donald Trump's approach to the Middle East peace process, was filled with perceived anti-Semitic comments. He went so far as to imply that European Jews during the Holocaust chose to undergo 'murder and slaughter' rather than emigrate to British-held Palestine, and alleged that the State of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion imported Jews from Yemen and Iraq to the country against their will.
The Palestinian leader further asserted that the State of Israel was formed as 'a colonial project that has nothing to do with Judaism,' to safeguard European interests..."