Mahmoud Abbas, world’s worst historian

A number of recent or current international leaders hold earned doctorates, in fields such as law (the president of Greece), economics (the prime minister of India) or chemistry (both the chancellor of Germany and the prime minister of Belgium). But, irony of ironies, the only world leader who holds a PhD in history has turned out to be one of the worst historians in the world: Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority. This week he demonstrated yet again why he deserves that label.

Addressing the Palestinian General Council on Sunday, Abbas said the State of Israel “is a colonial enterprise that has nothing to do with Jewishness. The Jews were used as a tool under the concept of the promised land – call it whatever you want. Everything has been made up.”

Abbas has a long record of denying Jewish history in the Holy Land.