Abbas' senior adviser's visit to Auschwitz. Media emphasise negative rather than positive aspects

by Natalia Simanovsky

Tel Aviv, Israel - In late July, Ziad al-Bandak, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, made an official visit to the Auschwitz Holocaust memorial to pay respect to the million-and-a-half victims of the camp, most of whom were Jewish. Yet the majority of media outlets in Israel and abroad only reported on the event a few days later, following condemnation of al-Bandak’s visit from Hamas and the Union of Palestinian Communities and Associations in Europe.