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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and lobbies have a great deal of influence in the United Nations, as highlighted at the infamous 2001 Durban Conference on "Racism and Xenophobia". However, as Gerald Steinberg, the Executive Director of NGO Monitor, noted, "For the first time, NGO Monitor has submitted a report to the UN which exposes the false and biased claims of many of these organizations." This report has been accepted as evidence by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which is holding a session on Israel on February 22 and 23 in Geneva.
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"This brazen attack on Elie Wiesel was a reminder that Holocaust denial still has currency
among Jew haters and is one of the more virulent strains of
anti-Semitism. It also can have very grave consequences--both on a
personal level and on a national and international level--and must be
taken seriously, whether it comes from an individual like Eric Hunt, or
a political leader like the Iranian president." said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.
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 About 20,000 people from throughout the world, including 6,000 from Iran, have visited Yad Vashem's Farsi-language Web site since its launch just 12 days ago. Dozens of Iranian visitors to the site have sent e-mails to Yad Vashem asking for more information on the Holocaust. Vad Vashem officials stressed that this is a record number of visitors, and equals the annual number of visitors to the English-language Web site.
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The General Assembly today adopted by consensus a resolution
condemning, without reservation, any denial of the Holocaust, with the
United States, among the text’s 103 sponsors, stressing that to deny
the events of the Holocaust -- one of the most tragic moral
catastrophes in history -- “was tantamount to approval of genocide in
all its forms”.
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Tehran’s Judiciary commenced a trial against four men on charges of propaganda against the state and dissemination of disinformation to disturb public opinion by writing articles for newspapers and illegal internet sites. The Iranian judiciary is trying to prosecute government critics using vague, overbroad laws whose very terms restrict free expression,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Middle East division at Human Rights Watch. “Iran should be prosecuting the officials accused of torture, not the bloggers accused of holding opinions.”
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On the eve of the International Day of Commemoration of the Victims of
the Holocaust, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on Ambassadors
to the United Nations from countries who had not yet committed to
support a resolution condemning Holocaust denial, to add their
countries' voices to this effort.
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 Interpol may not be following standard procedures in its handling of arrest warrants issued by the Government of Argentina for 11 Iranians and Shiite militia Hezbollah members implicated in a 1994 terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires, according to the Chairman and the Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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