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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clubs" data-source="post: 6206215" data-attributes="member: 257428">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holocaust_denial&action=edit&section=17" target="_blank">edit</a>] Holocaust denial in Arab nationsDenials of the Holocaust have been regularly promoted by various Arab leaders and in various media throughout the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" target="_blank">Middle East</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-90" target="_blank">[91]</a> Newspapers funded by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" target="_blank">Saudi Arabian</a> government routinely deny the existence of the Holocaust, or downplay its significance.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-91" target="_blank">[92]</a> Individuals from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" target="_blank">Syrian</a> government, as well as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> political group <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" target="_blank">Hamas</a> have recently published Holocaust denial statements.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-92" target="_blank">[93]</a>In August 2002, the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League" target="_blank">Arab League</a> think-tank whose Chairman, Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, served as Deputy Prime Minister of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" target="_blank">United Arab Emirates</a>, promoted a Holocaust denial symposium in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi" target="_blank">Abu Dhabi</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-93" target="_blank">[94]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" target="_blank">Hamas</a> leaders have also promoted Holocaust denial; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantissi" target="_blank">Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi</a> held that the Holocaust never occurred, that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism" target="_blank">Zionists</a> were behind the action of Nazis, and that Zionists funded Nazism.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-guardian.co.uk-94" target="_blank">[95]</a> A press release by Hamas in April 2000 decried "the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-95" target="_blank">[96]</a>Holocaust denial has also been resisted by prominent intellectual figures in the Arab world; in 2001, an outcry led by Palestinian poet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Darwish" target="_blank">Mahmoud Darwish</a>, Lebanese writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Khoury_(writer)" target="_blank">Elias Khoury</a> and others brought about the cancellation of a conference the Holocaust denial organization Institute for Historical Review had planned to hold in Beirut.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-96" target="_blank">[97]</a>In 2005 the Egyptian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood" target="_blank">Muslim Brotherhood</a> leader, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mahdi_Akef" target="_blank">Mohammed Mahdi Akef</a>, denounced what he called "the myth of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Holocaust" target="_blank">Holocaust</a>" in defending Iranian president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad" target="_blank">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a>'s denial of the Holocaust.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-97" target="_blank">[98]</a>According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" target="_blank">Associated Press</a>, "Ignorance and even denial of the Holocaust is widespread in Palestinian society."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-98" target="_blank">[99]</a> and "Holocaust denial is still common in the Palestinian territories".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-99" target="_blank">[100]</a>According to Aziz Abu Sarah, published in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz" target="_blank">Haaretz</a>, "...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."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial#cite_note-100" target="_blank">[101]</a></blockquote>

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