As reported in the April 24th edition of the University of New Mexico’s Daily Lobo, Palestinian journalist Ziad Abbas will visit Albuquerque this weekend to, “raise awareness about what is going on in the Middle East and especially in Palestine, because we think that often Americans are not aware because the media here does not cover what is happening on the ground.”

A different perspective is certainly always helpful. But a report from the Anti-Defamation League portrays Mr. Abbas’s hope to “win the support of the American people by telling them stories of Palestinians” coming with some disturbing rhetoric.

According to the ADL, Abbas, works for the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), a Berkeley, CA-based anti-Israel organization.

In a speech at Emory University, Abbas accused Jews of using the Holocaust as an “excuse” to perpetrate a “catastrophe” against Palestinians. He compared life for Palestinians to a prison and concentration camps and alleged that “Jews created their own way of torturing Palestinians” based on their experiences during the Holocaust and that the “victims have become the victimizers.”

Abbas also described Hamas as a “resistance” group, arguing that Palestinians in Gaza voted for Hamas in 2006 as a show of support for “resistance” against Israel. He also advocated for a dismantling of the Jewish state of Israel in favor of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.