Information from:
Revisionist Conferences
Beirut Conference
2001
Revisionist conferences always attract a lot
of attention, but the upcoming conference
on "Revisionism and Zionism" in Beirut, Lebanon, is fast
becoming a focal point for interested parties around the world.
Holocaust Deniers to Convene in
Lebanon
Jerusalem, Israel, February 11, 2001 ... Holocaust deniers are
taking their drumbeat of anti-Semitism to the Middle East, where they
plan to embark on a new campaign to attract the like-minded to their
brand of hatred against Israel and the Jewish people.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)1,
Beirut, Lebanon will be the site of a major conference of Holocaust
deniers scheduled to begin on March 31.
Co-sponsored by the California-based Institute of Historical
Review (IHR), the leading American association of Holocaust deniers,
it will be the first major organized conference on Holocaust denial
to be held in an Arabic-speaking nation.
The conference, titled "Revisionism and Zionism," signals a major
shift in strategy for the Holocaust denial movement, which once
primarily focused its anti-Semitic propaganda on Europe and the
United States. In the past, the IHR has held its annual gatherings
closer to home, in places such as Los Angeles or Orange County,
Calif.
"The persistent drumbeat of Holocaust denial is moving to the
Middle East, where the deniers are reaching out to Islamic regimes to
find sympathy for their anti-Semitic and racist views," said Abraham
H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "The Holocaust deniers have spread
their message in the United States. They have met with like-minded
anti-Semites in Europe. Now they are fomenting anti-Semitism in
Muslim states where there is a sinister track record for the use of
Holocaust denial against Israel. For the Holocaust deniers, the
already charged Mideast environment is fertile ground for their
views."
Conference organizers are not publicizing the location of the
four-day conference, saying only that it will convene somewhere in
Beirut. IHR has stated that any visitors, including journalists, who
arrive in Lebanon with passports containing an Israeli visa or stamp
will not be admitted into the country. IHR has also indicated that,
in a departure from past meetings, they will be presenting lectures
in Arabic, French and English in partnership with another Holocaust
denial group, the Association Vérité et Justice
of Switzerland. Jürgen Graf, the president of this group, fled
to Iran in November 2000 after his appeals of a 1998 Swiss conviction
for inciting racial hatred were denied.
Holocaust Denial: A Daily Diet for Arab Media
Anti-Semitism and racial theories still play an important cultural
role in many Middle Eastern countries, where anti-Semitic stereotypes
and canards are an almost daily occurrence in the state-run media.
Holocaust denial has become part of this daily diet in Egypt, Iran,
Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Qatar, who use it as a
means to foment anti-Semitic hatred among their people.
Holocaust denial, which has become one of the most important
vehicles for contemporary anti-Semitism, is especially attractive to
the ideologies of anti-Israel Arab and Muslim groups. They believe
Holocaust denial can undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish State by
claiming that the Holocaust is a historical fabrication created to
win sympathy for Jews and Israel.
Fertile Ground for Hate
After suffering several legal defeats and other setbacks in
Europe, where hate speech is illegal in several countries, Holocaust
deniers now see the Middle East as a fertile ground to spread
anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews. The denial movement may have been
emboldened by the recent renewal of Israeli-Palestinian tensions and
the breakdown of the peace process.
Several nations in the region, including Lebanon, have
unofficially taken up the cause, in the media and in speeches by
political and religious leaders. Some of the most notorious figures
in the denial movement, including Mark Weber and Ernst Zündel,
have been given significant airtime on Iran's official radio station,
IRIB. In May 2000, the Iranian embassy in Vienna granted refuge to
another Holocaust denier, Wolfgang Frohlich. French Holocaust denier
Roger Garaudy received major support from Middle Eastern countries
during his trial in 1998. He received a hero's welcome when he toured
the region after the trial. Holocaust denial has also been expressed
in the media controlled by the Palestinian Authority and on Radio
Islam, an anti-Israel radio station that broadcasts from Sweden.
EDITORS NOTE: For additional information on Holocaust denial and
to arrange interviews with ADL experts, contact the Media Relations
Department via email or telephone at (212) 885-7749.
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See Also:
Holocaust
Revisionism and Its Political Consequences, by Jürgen Graff
Conference information
Media attention
- IHR
letter to USA Today
in response to their op-ed piece
by Rabbi Cooper (March 9, 2001)
- A South African Jewish Report
article tells of strong
objections from the SA Jewish Board of
Deputies
-- March 9, 2001
- Rabbi
Abraham Cooper gets hysterical
in USA Today -- March 8,
2001
- IHR Press Release on Zionist
efforts to ban the Conference
(March 7, 2001)
- The Tehran Times reports
that the
U.S. State Department is trying to stop the
conference
-- March 4,
2001
- As-Safir reports
that the
U.S. State Department is trying to stop the
conference
-- March 3, 2001
- The
Simon
Wiesenthal Center
calls on the Prime Minister of
Lebanon to end free speech -- March 1, 2001
- News item
from Reuters
-- February 22,
2001
- Article in the Canadian
Jewish News
-- February 22, 2001
- Press release from
the Simon
Wiesenthal Center -- February 12,
2001
- Press release from
the Anti-Defamation
League
(ADL) -- February 11, 2001
REVISIONISM
Zionism
& Israeli Apartheid
Israeli/Zionism's
racism & discrimination ---
Sabra & Shatila
massacre
WWII Zionists' indifference to Jewish suffering
---
Politicizing the
Holocaust
Israeli Terrorism & aggression ---
Home demolitions
& torture
Israeli Ethnic cleansing, expansionism & settlements
Zionist-Nazi & Zionist-Fascist alliance ---
Israeli human right
violations & massacres
-
Israel
Allowed Argentinian Jews to Die (Return
12/1990)
-
Zionism's
Attitude to Anti-Semitism by Tony Greenstein, (Return
03/1989)
-
The
Jewish
Question and the Zionist Movement by
Udi Adiv, (Return 12/1990)
- Zionism's
Failure
to Support Resistance. (Excerpted from
Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS
- British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity,
London.)
- The
Kastner Case. Kastner, a Jew, helped
Nazis (Eichmann) locate and send a Million Hungarian Jews to
concentration camps. (Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration,
pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist
Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London.)
- Zionism
and the Holocaust
by Haim Bresheeth (Return
03/1989).
-
Closed
Door Policy Excerpts from the
Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet issued by BAZO-PS - British
Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London,
1981)
-
Hannah
Arendt Author of the famous book
Eichmann in Jerusalem
-
Zionism
and Anti-Semitism: A Strange
Alliance Through History by Allan C. Brownfeld (Washington
Report 07/1998)
-
The
Role of Zionism
in the Holocaust (from Jews Not
Zionists)
-
Pleas
to Rescue Jews in the Holocaust
Ignored by Zionist Leaders (from Jews Not Zionists). The Zionists
here ignored the pleas of Rabbi Michael Dov
Weissmandel.
-
The
Millions That Could Have Been Saved
by I. Domb (from Jews Not
Zionists)
-
Sharon
Faults 'Left' for Jews' Holocaust Plight
by Yossi Verter (Ha'aretz
03/16/2000)
- Revisionism
from the Orient
Joachim Gross interviews Ahmed
Rami, the founder of Radio Islam
- Introduction
to Écrits révisionnistes
(1974-1998)
By
Professor Robert Faurisson
- Talk
given in Stockholm
By Professor Robert
Faurisson
- Elie
Wiesel - A Prominent False Witness
by Robert Faurisson
- "Genocide
By Telepathy",
Hilberg Explains
by: Robert
Faurisson
- Listen
to
Robert Faurisson
- The
Dictatorship of Imbecility
By Serge
Thion
- 'Schindler's
List'. A review.
by: Greg
Raven.
- Anatomy
of a Hoax
by Professor Robert Faurisson and
David Irving
- Jewish
Soap
by Mark Weber
- The
Founding Myths of Israeli Politics
by Roger Garaudy
- The
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - A
Challenge
by Robert Faurisson
- How
Many Deaths at Auschwitz?
by Robert Faurisson
- What
is Holocaust Denial?
by the Canadian Free Speech
League
- How
the British Obtained the Confessions of Rudolf
Hoess
by Robert Faurisson
- An
Auschwitz Revaluation
by Fredrick
Wilhelm
- The
Wannsee Conference Protocol: Anatomy of a
Fabrication
by Johannes Peter
Ney
- Major
French Magazine Acknowledges Auschwitz Gas Chamber
Fraud
- Bergen-Belsen
Camp: The suppressed Story
by Mark Weber
- Abraham
Bomba, Barber of Treblinka
by Bradley R. Smith
- Buchenwald:
Legend and Reality
by Mark Weber
- The
Diesel Gas Chambers: Myth within a Myth
by Friedrich Paul Berg
- Khatyn
- another Hoax
by Louis FitzGibbon
- The
Leuchter Report
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- The
Second Leuchter-Report
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- Is
there a life after persecution?
by Fred A. Leuchter,
Jr.
- A
response to Pressac´s Critique
by Paul
Grubach
- The
Lüftl Report
by Walter Lüftl
- The
Krakow Report
an "official" Polish report on the
Auschwitz "gas chambers"
- The
"Gas Chambers" of Auschwitz and Majdanek
by Germar Rudolf
- Treblinka
by Mark Weber and Andrew
Allen
- The
Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Simon
Wiesenthal: Fraudulent "Nazi hunter"
by Mark Weber
- Zionism
and the Third Reich
by Mark Weber
- The
"Holocaust" - 120 Questions and Answers
by Charles E. Weber
- Made
in Russia: The Holocaust
by Carlos W. Porter,
[Excerpts]
- Revisionist
pictures with descriptions
- Revisionist
study of Allied aerial
photographs
link to Air-Photo
Homepage
- The
Evidence from Aerial
Photography
by John Clive
Ball
- Alphabetical
Library of Revisionist Authors and their
Works
- A.Rami
interviews M.Weber, T.Marcellus, Ted
O'Keefe...
on revisionism and the
Jewish power in USA
- The German
National Journal (NJ)
on revisionism and the
Jewish occupation
- Revisionist
Publications around the World
- Did
Six Million Really Die?
by Richard E.
Harwood
- The
Journal of Historical Review
- Fredrick
Toben, Director of Adelaide Institute
Arrested!
- A
letter from Dr Toben's German jail
cell
- Revisionist
pictures with descriptions
