On September 26, 2014 Abbas analogized Israelis to Nazis, referred to the creation of Israel as an "historic injustice" and "catastrophe," blamed Israel - as a terrorist "breeding ground" - for ISIL atrocities, praised "Boycott Divestment Sanctions" (BDS) campaign and repeatedly accused Israel of "genocide", "war crimes," "apartheid," "racism," and the deliberate murder of children. He received loud applause throughout his speech.
His words included the following:
- The future proposed by the Israeli government for the Palestinian people is at best isolated ghettos for Palestinians ... which will be under the subjugation of the racist settlers and army of occupation, and at worst will be a most abhorrent form of Apartheid...
- In this year, in which this Assembly...conveyed the world's yearning and determination to realize a just peace that achieves freedom and independence for the Palestinian people in their State of Palestine alongside Israel in order to rectify the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people in Al-Nakba of 1948, the occupying Power has chosen to defy the entire world by launching its war on Gaza, by which its jets and tanks brutally assassinated lives and devastated the homes, schools and dreams of thousands of Palestinian children, women and men ...
- Israel has chosen to make it a year of a new war of genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people...
- Confronting the terrorism that plagues our region by groups - such as "ISIL" and others ... requires much more than military confrontation ... What is primarily needed is a comprehensive, credible strategy to dry out the sources of terrorism and eradicate its roots ... It requires, in this context and as a priority, bringing an end to the Israeli occupation of our country, which constitutes in its practices and perpetuation, an abhorrent form of state terrorism and a breeding ground for incitement, tension and hatred...
- We witnessed the qualitative and quantitative broadening of activities of the international grassroots boycott campaign against Israel's policies of occupation, apartheid and colonial settlement, especially among academia, cultural, student and youth groups... We pay tribute to...All of these manifestations of true solidarity [which] constituted an important message to those who were facing genocide in Gaza...
- I have addressed you in this hall during similar days in 2012 and cautioned that the colonial occupying Power was preparing for a new Nakba against the Palestinian people, and I appealed to you: Prevent a new Nakba. Support the establishment of a free and independent State of Palestine now. I returned to this same hall two months later as Palestine was healing her wounds and her people were burying beloved martyred children, women and men...
- The difference today is that the scale of this genocidal crime is larger, and that the list of martyrs, especially children, is longer, as well as lists of the wounded and disabled, and that dozens of families have been completely decimated...
- This last war against Gaza was a series of absolute war crimes...
- I affirm in front of you that the Palestinian people hold steadfast to their legitimate right to defend themselves against the Israeli war machine and to their legitimate right to resist this colonial, racist Israeli occupation...