 As the world looks on with concern, Tehran kicked off its Holocaust conference on Monday. Berlin, too, is hosting a conference. The German one, though, is aimed at keeping the Holocaust from becoming a matter for political debate.
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In a collective display of defiance against Iran’s “Holocaust” conference, over 60 Holocaust survivors in the U.S. and Canada today gave accounts of what they had to live through and what they saw under the Nazi regime. Iran’s conference, which included such Holocaust deniers and revisionists as David Duke and Robert Faurisson, comes a year after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared the Holocaust was a ‘myth.’ To counter this, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gathered together survivors who were linked by videoconferencing between the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and Tolerancenter in New York and Center offices in Toronto. In addition, the Center received pages of testimony via fax and e-mail.
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today
urged European leaders to condemn an upcoming conference in Iran
titled, "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision," in which the Iranian
government will feature dozens of speakers questioning the historical
fact of the Holocaust. "We believe this type of Holocaust
denial has no place in the family of nations, and that it is essential
for European and world leaders to condemn this conference and
everything it stands for at its core, which is anti-Semitism," said
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor.
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Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world's most popular
websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com
and YouTube following instructions to service providers to filter them. The clampdown was ordered by senior judiciary
officials in the latest phase of a campaign that has seen high-speed
broadband facilities banned in an attempt to impede "corrupting"
foreign films and music. It is in line with a campaign by Iran's
Islamist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to purge the country of
western cultural influences.
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Argentine prosecutors are calling for the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others. Iranian authorities are accused of directing Lebanese
militia group Hezbollah to carry out the attack, which killed 85 people
and injured 300.
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A proposed conference that stirred ire in Germany earlier this year is now slated to take place next week. Iran is behind the meeting, which is expected to be a platform for Holocaust deniers. And last January, the Iranian government announced it would hold a conference on the Holocaust. It said it intended to invite academics such as German neo-Nazi Horst Mahler and the Israeli journalist and Christian convert Israel Shamir, both of whom are Holocaust deniers.
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