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Biggest anti-Semitic slur of the year: “Palestine is the Holy Land”

Wiesenthal Center names top 10 anti-Semitic slursDecember 13, 2011NEW YORK (JTA) – A comment by Mahmoud Abbas referring to Palestine as the “holy land” placed first in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Top 10 Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2011. The Palestinian Authority president made the remark at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23. “I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and the birthplace of Jesus Christ peace be upon him, to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people,” he said. *…

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