[lbo-talk] David Duke makes repeat visit to controversial Kyiv university

[Michael Pugliese]

On 11/17/06, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com>
quoted:Last year, Duke also attended an international "revisionist"
conference in Moscow, where a rogue's gallery of Holocaust deniers
took aim at the gargantuan Jewish conspiracy that supposedly rules the
world. Jürgen Graf, a Swiss fugitive who currently resides in Teheran,
chaired this event, which was co-sponsored by the Washington,
D.C.-based Barnes Review. Duke spoke on "The Zionist Factor in the
USA."

   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/08/INGODGH99Q1.DTL

   In international forums and on state-controlled radio, Iranian
university experts and journalists help validate the revisionist views
that Jews were never gassed or murdered in great numbers during the
Holocaust.

Indeed, Iran has become a refuge for the biggest names in European
Holocaust denial. When in 2000, revisionist author Jürgen Graf was
sentenced in Switzerland to 15 months in prison for Holocaust
falsification, Graf fled to Tehran "at the invitation of a group of
Iranian scholars and university professors who are sympathetic to
Holocaust revisionism," according to the Institute for Historical
Review, a denial clearinghouse.

What's more, in May 2000, Iran's embassy in Vienna granted asylum to
Austrian Holocaust denier Wolfgang Fröhlich, who testified as a
so-called expert witness during Graf's 1998 trial. This saved Fröhlich
from Austria's severe anti-Holocaust denial statutes. Fröhlich argued
that evidence proved no Jews were killed by Zyklon B gassing.

Earlier, about 600 journalists and 160 members of the Iranian
parliament signed petitions supporting French revisionist Roger
Garaudy, who was fined $40,000 by French authorities for his book
claiming the Holocaust was a myth. When Garaudy landed in Iran, the
country's supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sayyad Khamenei, granted
him an audience and lauded his work.

Iran has played a leading role in the Holocaust drama and now tries to
deny it. That should be very hard in a nation that was named for
Hitler's master race.

Edwin Black is the author of "Banking on Baghdad" about the Nazi-Arab
alliance. Contact us at insight at sfchronicle.com.

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/17/africa/ME_GEN_Israel_Holocaust_Conference.php

    Israeli Muslim to take on Holocaust denial at Iran conference

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An Israeli Arab who opened a Holocaust museum in his home last year is
planning to attend an upcoming conference in Iran on whether or not
the Holocaust actually happened — and he intends to tell the Iranians
it cannot be denied.

Khaled Kasab Mahameed, a Muslim lawyer from Nazareth, said he had been
invited to the conference, slated to begin December 11 in Iran's
capital, Tehran. It was initiated by Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmedinejad, who has called the Holocaust a "myth," and is supposed to
encourage research into whether or not millions of Jews were murdered
by the Nazi regime during World War II.

Ahmedinejad, who has also called for Israel to be "wiped off the map"
and has been accused by the West of pursuing nuclear weapons, has
suggested that the Israelis invented the Holocaust in order to
dispossess the Palestinians.

Mahameed said he planned to openly contradict Ahmedinejad's statements
at the conference.

"Instead of trying to understand the Holocaust and learn something
from it, they choose to deny it," Mahameed said. "I'm going to tell
them that there is no argument about the facts, and that they must try
to understand how the Holocaust has shaped the positions of the Jews,
of Europe, of America. I will tell them they must internalize its
meaning and not say it didn't happen."

Mahameed opened a modest museum in his home last year, holding
lectures, running a web site and displaying photographs he obtained
from Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust museum. He also penned a
book in Arabic, "The Palestinians and the Sovereignty of the
Holocaust."

"The dimensions of the Holocaust were never internalized by the Arab
discourse on Israel, and many people don't believe it happened,"
Mahameed said. Teaching Arabs about the Holocaust, he believes, can
help them understand Israelis better and aid progress towards a
resolution of the Mideast conflict.

-- 
Michael Pugliese