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Palestinian UK envoy links Israeli annexation plan to need to learn 'lessons' of WW2

In a conversation with Yachad, Husam Zomlot defended himself against claims he denied the Holocaust in a BBC interview in 2014

May 14, 2020 09:50
Husam Zomlot was previously the chief PLO representative in Washington, before the Trump administration closed his office down
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The most senior Palestinian official in the UK has linked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to annexe parts of the West Bank with a need to "learn the lessons of the Second World War".

Dr Husam Zomlot,  Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, told an audience of left-wing British Jews: "I really believe in the 'Never Again.' 

"I so subscribe to learning the lessons of the Second World War - that's why I'm feeling this annexation. That's why I'm feeling what Netanyahu is doing.''

Mr Zomlot, a long-time friend of Jeremy Corbyn, made his remarks in an online event organised by the Jewish pro-two state solution group Yachad on Wednesday after he was asked to address repeated claims he himself denied the Holocaust in an interview with the BBC World Service in 2014.