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Commentary: Selective outrage won't do

Nothing stays above politics forever, not even the Holocaust.

Last week, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was caught spewing anti-Semitic vitriol, including the notion that Jews were responsible for the Holocaust. The denunciations from American Jewish leaders were swift and unequivocal. But they also rang hollow.

In February, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki publicly said there were "Jewish perpetrators" of the Holocaust. Morawiecki's remark - which scholars condemned as a form of Holocaust denial - came in the wake of Warsaw's new memory law, which made

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