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Gold9472
01-13-2006, 10:01 AM
Iran to Host Holocaust Deniers Conference

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C2 00601%5CFOR20060112a.html

By Julie Stahl
January 12, 2006

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Iran reportedly plans to host a conference of Holocaust deniers in the coming weeks, much to the concern of some Israelis.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked international anger when he said late last year that the Holocaust was a myth and suggested that if Europe were so upset about it, Europe should provide land for a Jewish State. Ahmadinejad's comments came just weeks after he said that Israel should be "wiped off the map."

The Association of Islamic Journalists in Iran has been tasked with putting together an international conference to offer a platform "to examine in-depth this myth" of the Holocaust, according to the Italian News Agency AKI.

Iranian affairs expert Menashe Amir said that he expected prominent Holocaust deniers, representatives from terrorist groups and Muslim extremists from around the world to attend the conference in Iran.

Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Remembrance Authority, said it was concerned that Iran was attempting to "paint its radical agenda with a scholarly brush."

Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev warned against international complacency in light of Iran's "genocidal declarations."

"Recent trends in Iran represent a clear feature of current anti-Semitism -- the ties between Islamic radicals and Holocaust deniers," Shalev said in a statement. "Iran has embraced such charlatans as David Irving."

Revisionist historian Irving lost a libel suit in a British court against writer Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin books. Lipstadt called Irving one of the world's most dangerous "Holocaust deniers" in her 1994 book, "Denying the Holocaust."

"Sham historians" such as Irving have been totally discredited by the West but have found a "responsive audience" in Iran, "where senior officials have called the factual events of the Holocaust 'a matter of opinion,'" said Shalev.

Shalev noted that the United Nations recently recognized the importance of remembering the Holocaust "as a safeguard against the breakdown of the basic human values that underpin our civilization."

The U.N. passed a resolution three months ago establishing January 27 as an international day for Holocaust remembrance.

"The dismissal of the veracity of the Holocaust and its legacy represents a clear rejection of those values. The international community must act to prevent genocidal intentions from becoming genocidal capabilities," he said.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said that the world should be very concerned about the combination of Iran's radical ideology and the possibility of the regime obtaining nuclear weapons.

"The Holocaust denial by the regime in Iran is not only offensive and racist but it also demonstrates the mindset of the extremist regime in Tehran," said Regev.

"The combination of an extremist ideology, a distorted view of reality together with nuclear weapons is a combination that should concern every thinking individual."

Iran announced earlier this week that it would continue its research in uranium enrichment, a necessary ingredient for making an atomic bomb, raising concerns in the West that Iran is drawing closer to obtaining nuclear weapons.

According to the Jerusalem Post on Thursday, Israel will push for international condemnation of the conference.

But Regev would only say that Israel has raised the issue of Iran -- both its Holocaust denial and its nuclearization -- in its discussions with friendly governments.

Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, said the "real question" about the conference is how the world will respond.

"If this is merely a gathering to support the outrageous comments of President Ahmadinejad about the Holocaust obviously it will...serve no worthy purpose," Zuroff said.

If on the other hand experts were invited to "explain, teach and present the overwhelming evidence about the Holocaust then it would be a step in the right direction," he said. "It's the most documented genocide...ever committed in history."

"The real question that should be considered now is not the ridiculous statements [that will come out of the conference] but what the informed Western world will do in response," Zuroff added.

Amir said this would be the first time that such a conference is being held in Iran.

Such conferences have been held previously, but in 2001 Lebanon cancelled a conference of Holocaust revisionists under international pressure.

Holocaust deniers or revisionists maintain either that the Holocaust never occurred or that there was no organized plot to get rid of the Jewish people. They say the Holocaust has been used as a Jewish or Zionist propaganda tool in order to gain sympathy in the world.

"Most Iranians don't have knowledge about the Holocaust," said Amir. And the religious and extremist leaders say that even if it did happen, they don't care, he added.

Some Iranians, including politicians and journalists, oppose the statements of Ahmadinejad, Amir said.

According to Amir, the Persian-language website Baztab wrote that denying the crimes of German dictator Adolf Hitler would clear him of guilt but there is no doubt that Hitler committed many crimes, including the extermination of the Jews.

Amir said he did not believe the threat of referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council would stop the country from pursuing its nuclear goals. Iran is sure that China and Russia (permanent members on the Security Council) would veto any threat of sanctions, he said.

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 12:35 PM
whats the big deal with this??? what if he thought the earth was flat, should we attack him??? what does it matter what he thinks about ww2???

i think its just to make us all hate iran and want war with them.. something like that...

why does this guy keep bringing up the holocaust??? HAHAH!!!

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 12:36 PM
one more thing, if he doest believe the moon landing then we should get him for sure!!! HAHAHAH!!!!

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 12:52 PM
To promote Holocaust denial is wrong. It happened.

jetsetlemming
01-13-2006, 02:17 PM
This guy just doesn't shut up. He's seems to be saying jsut the right things to make everyone pissed off at him every time you hear about him. Isreal should go to hell, he hopes Sharon will die from his stroke, the holocaust never happened.. maybe he wants to be attacked. Or maybe he just thinks this makes him look like a rebel or manly or something.

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 03:05 PM
well gold, i guess people shouldnt go around saying they know there is a god!!! because there isnt!!!! its wrong!!!! same shit...

i dont think jesus was a real dude either!!!! should i not say it because others believe he did???? HAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!


i does seem a bit odd that this dude is saying all this shit when he knows the US wants to attack him... is he just egging them on???

maybe the plan is to have a big fake war with iran....

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 03:09 PM
This isn't the same as saying there's a God. People say that because they have faith that there is one. That doesn't mean he exists. Saying the Holocaust didn't happen is wrong. It did happen. There are 1000's of pages of evidence showing that it did happen. There are people from my family who were in the Holocaust.

The equivalent would be to say Pearl Harbor never happened, or 9/11 never happened.

jetsetlemming
01-13-2006, 03:18 PM
It's not like he's saying it because he's a historian and believes that evidence shows the holocaust never happened. He's vehemently anti-Semetic, and says it because he knows Jews don't like it. He's just being a dick.

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 03:20 PM
I have no doubt what his intentions are. I think he's playing a game that is very dangerous.

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 05:36 PM
thats just it, who gives a shit what he says???

if its so crazy why does everyone care???

what if ww2 was a scam just like 911??? not that it didnt happen but how and why it happened.... in just thinking about it... no, im not saying it didnt happen so dont jump on my balls...

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 05:49 PM
WWII, for America, WAS initiated by a scam.

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 08:40 PM
but was the scam worth it in the end??? im scared that one day people will look back and say 911 was worth it...

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 08:42 PM
I don't know what to think. I wasn't there at the time. It puts things in a different perspective, don't you think?

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 08:50 PM
Knowing what was taking place under the Nazi Regime... the American people didn't know about it. It wasn't until the allied soldiers arrived at the concentration camps did they finally see what was happening. I'm sure FDR wanted war because he believed it was good for the economy, or people within the economy. I don't know if he was as corrupt as Bush. Either way, I'm almost 100% sure it wasn't to save the Jews. Or the Russians.

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 08:54 PM
not really... ok, sort of... i dont know.. HAHAH!!!

i guess im talking history and how it will/would look... if things work out for the better in the middle east then people could say it was worth it.... right?? i dont think its right no matter what because i was fine with it how it was....

so looking back at pearl harbor, i would say even if we bomb it it was worth it... right??? but maybe we do not know the whole story of ww2...

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 08:55 PM
that was to your first post on this page

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 08:56 PM
maybe i dont know enough about ww2 to even talk about this....

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 09:02 PM
You don't have to know about it... What the Nazis were trying to do (take over the world). If you were the President of the United States at that time, and the American people were against the war, which they were, what would you do?

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 09:54 PM
thats my point, i dont have a problem with what happened at pearl harbor but i have a big problem with 911 because i was there, at home watching it happen live on tv...

i cant believe that i have never seen any right winger say "yes, bush and co did 911... you people will see in the end that 911 was worth it"...

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 09:58 PM
thats my point, i dont have a problem with what happened at pearl harbor but i have a big problem with 911 because i was there, at home watching it happen live on tv...

i cant believe that i have never seen any right winger say "yes, bush and co did 911... you people will see in the end that 911 was worth it"...

No? (http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=337)

Incidentally, the person who said that to me said today that the President was doing his job when he authorized wiretaps before 9/11.

911=inside job
01-13-2006, 10:21 PM
you know someone that knows that bush did it and says it was worth it???? damn... HAHAH!!! so soon..

Gold9472
01-13-2006, 10:22 PM
you know someone that knows that bush did it and says it was worth it???? damn... HAHAH!!! so soon..

That's the scary part.