This year’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, was at once illuminated and overshadowed by extraordinary statements on the Holocaust emanating from Europe and the Middle East.

The first came from a familiar source and was delivered in a familiarly unhinged tone. President Abbas, wounded by Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a serious blow to the Palestinian strategy of extracting unilateral concessions from Israel, delivered a two-hour address to a gathering of the PLO’s Central Council.