Muslims around the world conveniently forget that Israel is a prosperous and civilized nation founded by legal land purchases and predicated on international law. Muslims choose to ignore the fact that Israel is a legitimate and sovereign nation, voted imprimatur into sovereignty and legitimacy by the United Nations. Regardless of the facts, empirical historical and archaelogical evidence that...
Wiesenthal Centre to Danish Prime Minister: Withdraw State Award To Holocaust Denier
Received by email:~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has urged Denmark’s Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to void a monetary award by the Ministry of Culture’s Arts Council (Kunst Raadet) to Erik Haaest, known as the “Holocaust Sceptic”. In his protest to PM Rasmussen, Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Centre’s Director for International Relations, wrote...
Controversial Professor Denied Tenure at DePaul
Revenge is sweet. From Controversial Professor Denied Tenure at DePaul: Norman Finkelstein, a DePaul University faculty member with outspoken views on Israel and Jewish issues, has been denied tenure. DePaul Dean Chuck Suchar of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said he found Finkelstein’s attack-style scholarship inconsistent with the university’s commitment to respect for the...
Canada’s top court snubs Holocaust denier Zundel
From European Jewish Press: An extreme-right wing extremist who was deportedfrom Canada to face trial in Germany for spreading racist propaganda over the Internet was denied an audience with Canada’s top justices Thursday. The Supreme Court of Canada rejected Ernst Zundel’s appeal that he was unlawfully detained and deported from Canada in 2005, after being ruled a threat to national security...
Holocaust denier David Irving was shown on Italian television claiming there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz
Holocaust denier David Irving was shown on Italian television claiming there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. During a program that aired last Friday, Irving was shown at the former German Nazi death camp in Poland, which he apparently visited recently. During the Italian documentary, Irving explains that engineering techniques at the time weren’t sufficient to allow the Nazis to gas...
Holocaust denier jailed for five years
From JPost: A German court on Thursday convicted far-right activist Ernst Zundel of incitement for denying the Holocaust, and sentenced him to the maximum five years in prison. The 67-year-old, who was deported from Canada in 2005, was convicted on 14 counts of incitement for years of anti-Semitic activities, including denying the Holocaust, a crime in Germany, in documents and on the Internet...
Israeli Website Teaches Iranians about the Holocaust
From Israeli Website Teaches Iranians about the Holocaust: An Israeli website, written in Persian, is aimed at convincing the people of Iran of the Holocaust’s historical truth. The new website, designed by Israel’s Holocaust museum, is an attempt to sway Iranian public opinion in the face of a growing nuclear threat. “Ahmadinejad is using Holocaust denial as a concrete tool to...
Iran’s Obsession with the Jews: Denying the Holocaust, Desiring Another One
Matthias Kuntzel of The Weekly Standard writes: The Tehran Holocaust deniers’ conference marks a turning point not only because of its state sponsorship, but also because of its purpose. Up until now, Holocaust deniers have wanted to revise the past. Today, they want to shape the future: to prepare the way for the next Holocaust. In his opening speech to the conference, the Iranian foreign...
Iran challenges Europe to hand over Holocaust ‘proof’
From Breitbart.com: An Iranian government-sponsored body set up to probe the veracity of the Holocaust has challenged Europe to hand over documents about the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II. Mohammad Ali Ramin, the head of the “World Holocaust Foundation” created after Iran’s controversial Holocaust conference last year, said Austria, Germany and Poland in particular...
Holocaust Memorials defiled by neo-Nazis
From Times Online: The German authorities were preparing for criticism from the Jewish community after it was revealed that a Holocaust memorial in Berlin was being used as a public lavatory by tourists and by neo-Nazi sympathisers. The disclosure, in a Berlin newspaper, will trigger a new debate about how the Holocaust should be remembered in Germany. One argument against building the monument...