JEWISH and Palestine solidarity groups expressed outrage yesterday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explicitly blamed Palestinians for the nazi Holocaust.

Mr Netanyahu made his inflammatory comments in a speech to to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.

The Likud PM was referring to the 1941 meeting in Berlin between the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, and Adolf Hitler.

“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,” Mr Netanyahu claimed.

“And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here.’ ‘So what should I do with them?’ he asked. He said, ‘Burn them’.”

His comments came as the wave of Palestinian protest and knife attacks on Israeli occupiers, met with deadly violence by security forces, continued.

In the latest incident, Israeli troops shot a 15-year-old girl in the West Bank after she allegedly approached an illegal Israeli settlement with a knife.

Holocaust scholars immediately dismissed Mr Netanyahu’s attempt to rewrite history.

Professor Dan Michman, head of the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, said that Hitler met the mufti after the “final solution” began.

Yad Vashem’s chief historian, Profesoor Dina Porat, agreed that Netanyahu was wrong.

“You cannot say that it was the mufti who gave Hitler the idea to kill or burn Jews,” she said. “It’s not true. Their meeting occurred after a series of events that point to this.”

Palestinian Authority Fatah MP Saeb Erekat said the remarks absolved Hitler of responsibility for the slaughter of six million Jews and other targeted groups.

Mr Netanyahu made similar slurs against Palestinians in 2012, to widespread condemnations.

In Britain, Jews for Justice for Palestinians diplomatic and parliamentary liaison officer Arthur Goodman pointed out that Avraham Stern, leader of the Lehi Zionist terror group, met a representative of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1940, and later sent an envoy to nazi Germany.

Mr Goodman said that Mr Netanyahu had “taken one fact and blown it up out of all proportion.”

“His motive is to distract attention from the fact that the current round of violence was started by Israeli government ministers going to the Temple Mount to pray in a provocation to Palestinians.

“The result is reminiscent of Ariel Sharon’s walk on the Temple Mount with hundreds of police in 2000 that led to the second intifada.”

Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Sarah Colborne accused the Israeli PM of new levels of incitement with his comments.

“That they have been made by the Prime Minister of Israel simply illustrates the rogue nature of the Israeli state,” she said.

“The time for treating Israel as a rogue state and imposing sanctions on it until its leaders show respect for international law and the human rights of Palestinians is long overdue.”