Forty diplomats will participate in tomorrow’s symposium “Holocaust Denial: Paving the Way to Genocide” at Yad Vashem.Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate will open the symposium, and Prof. David Bankier, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research will chair. Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem Prof. Yehuda Bauer, President of MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute)Yigal Carmon, and Holocaust survivor Rita Weiss, many of whose relatives were killed in the Holocaust, will speak.
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In the wake of an Iranian conference held by Holocaust deniers, Washington-area Muslim leaders paid a visit Wednesday (Dec. 20) to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to state their opposition to hatred. Imam Mohamed Magid, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, joined other leaders in the museum's Hall of Remembrance, saying he was moved by stories of Holocaust survivors.
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Nearly 40 European and North American research institutes will suspend contacts with a leading Iranian think tank that helped organize last week's conference in Tehran of Holocaust deniers, a Paris-based researcher said Saturday.The institutes, including a Canadian one, the Centre for International Studies in Victoria, have agreed to suspend ongoing programs with the Iranian Institute for Political and International Studies, or the IPIS, according to a statement issued by François Heisbourg, who organized the boycott. They have also refused to participate in IPIS meetings or to invite IPIS staff to their own forums and they will decline travel to Iran sponsored by the Iranian institute.
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 The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) has suspended relations with Iran's Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), the Finnish private research institute said in a statement Monday.
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 Switzerland has joined other European counties in condemning a conference held in Iran which has questioned the Holocaust. Swiss foreign ministry spokesman said that it was "unacceptable" to doubt the Holocaust's existence. Iran called the two-day meeting, which finished on Tuesday, because it said it wanted to debate what it calls taboos surrounding the Holocaust. Participants at the event in the capital Tehran included white supremacists and Holocaust deniers.
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A group of Tehran students burned images of
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as groups of Holocaust deniers, Ku Klux Klansmen
and anti-Semitic fanatics gathered to "revise" what the Iranian
president describes as "the myth" of the Holocaust.
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Dana Perino, a White House spokesman, said: "The gathering ... in Tehran is an affront to the entire civilised world, as well as to the traditional Iranian values of tolerance and mutual respect." Tony Blair, the British prime minister, voiced his disapproval of the conference. He said: "I think it is such a symbol of sectarianism and hatred towards people of another religion - I find it just unbelievable. "If you're going to invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust, then what further evidence do you need to have that this regime is extreme?"
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