Rewriting History in Tehran
Everyone’s favorite nutball Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inspired a conference currently underway in Tehran called “Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision”. Apparently not all is clear on IF and WHERE the mass slaughters at the hand of Adolph Hitler’s armies took place. Apparently there are scholars who would prefer to think that the Holocaust is all myth and should be erased from history.
67 speakers from 30 countries, including speakers who have been prosecuted for their stance on the historical accuracy of the holocaust have been invited to the conference who’s “aim is not to deny or confirm the Holocuast, but to create an opportunity for thinkers who cannot express their views freely in Europe about the Holocaust.” Some of the more noted speakers include the French writer Georges Thiel, five anti-Zionist rabbis, and David Duke (former Ku Klux Klan leader).
Germany obviously has taken issue with the conference and a daily publication “Die Welt” has issued their take on the conference and its intentions.
“The mass murder of the Jews during Nazi rule is and remains a singular crime, not to be compared or relativized. The Holocaust is a historical fact that up to today still has a traumatic effect not only on Jews. Whoever uses the cover of academic freedom to disavow it, mocks the millions of victims and their descendents. The ‘Holocaust conference’ that has opened in Tehran, and which, according to foreign minister Mottaki, wants to clarify things, beggars all description. Anti-Zionist US Rabbis, notorious and previously prosecuted Holocaust deniers, Ku Klux Klan members and neo-fascist-leaning ’scholars,’ fill the podiums. The Israeli Arab Khaled Mahmaid, who has attempted to bring the mass murder during the Third Reich to the attention of his fellow Arabs with his own Holocaust documentation in Nazareth, was unwelcome. The brave … lawyer wanted to publicly rebuke Ahmadinejad. He was therefore refused entry to Iran. For Ahmadinejad and the Iranian leadership clique the conference is neither about research nor enlightenment, but solely about further provoking the international community in general and Israel in particular.”
One would think that a conference about the Holocaust wouldn’t really be necessary since it’s pretty much common knowledge that it DID happen and we don’t EVER want it to happen again. I personally find it politically disgusting that Iran would further politicize it simply because they feel the need to antagonize Israel more than they already are.
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