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talk to people who escaped, who survived the holocaust
[edit] Holocaust denial in Arab nations
Denials of the Holocaust have been regularly promoted by various Arab leaders and in various media throughout the
Middle East.
[91] Newspapers funded by the
Saudi Arabian government routinely deny the existence of the Holocaust, or downplay its significance.
[92] Individuals from the
Syrian government, as well as the
Palestinian political group
Hamas have recently published Holocaust denial statements.
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In August 2002, the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, an
Arab League think-tank whose Chairman, Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, served as Deputy Prime Minister of the
United Arab Emirates, promoted a Holocaust denial symposium in
Abu Dhabi.
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Hamas leaders have also promoted Holocaust denial;
Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi held that the Holocaust never occurred, that
Zionists were behind the action of Nazis, and that Zionists funded Nazism.
[95] A press release by Hamas in April 2000 decried "the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis."
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Holocaust denial has also been resisted by prominent intellectual figures in the Arab world; in 2001, an outcry led by Palestinian poet
Mahmoud Darwish, Lebanese writer
Elias Khoury and others brought about the cancellation of a conference the Holocaust denial organization Institute for Historical Review had planned to hold in Beirut.
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In 2005 the Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood leader,
Mohammed Mahdi Akef, denounced what he called "the myth of the
Holocaust" in defending Iranian president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust.
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According to the
Associated Press, "Ignorance and even denial of the Holocaust is widespread in Palestinian society."
[99] and "Holocaust denial is still common in the Palestinian territories".
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According to Aziz Abu Sarah, published in
Haaretz, "...growing up I did not know much about the Holocaust. As Palestinians, we simply did not learn about it. There was a stigma attached to it, an understanding that Israel would use the Holocaust to lobby for sympathy, then turn and use the sympathy as a terrible weapon against the Palestinian people."
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