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Source: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-758158
Paris Revokes Mahmoud Abbas' Honorary Medal, Cites Holocaust Denial
(Jerusalem Post) Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Thursday revoked the Medal of the City of Paris awarded to Mahmoud Abbas in 2015, due to his recent comments in which he expressed a "clear desire to deny the genocide to which the Jewish populations of Europe were victims at the hands of the Nazi regime." Your comments "are contrary to our universal values and the historical truth of the Holocaust, so you can no longer claim...the highest distinction of Paris. I condemn your comments in the strongest possible terms; no cause can justify revisionism and negationism," she wrote to Abbas.