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NEWS & LETTERS, February - March 2007Our Life and Times by Kevin A. Barry and Mitch WeerthPalestinians on HolocaustAlthough the U.S. media covered this up, two prominent Palestinian intellectuals spoke out against the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran. Mahmoud Al-Safadi, a former political prisoner, wrote an open letter to Iran’s President Ahmadinejad, part of which reads: "Perhaps you think that the act of denying the Holocaust places you at the vanguard of the Muslim world and that this refusal constitutes a useful tool in the combat against American imperialism and Western hegemony. By doing so, you actually do a great disservice to popular struggles the world over." "Concerning the struggle of my people for their independence and their freedom: Do you perhaps regard the negation of the Holocaust as an expression of support for the Palestinians? You are mistaken. We will not win our victory and our independence by denying the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people, even though the forces who occupy our country today and dispossess us are part of the Jewish people." (Full text: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/alsafadi141206.html) Attorney Khaled Mahamid is the curator of the first Holocaust museum in the Arab world, in Nazareth. He tried to attend the Tehran conference, where he planned to bring photographs and other evidence, but the Iranian government denied him a visa. Mahamid complained that Israel’s Yad Vashem museum offers translations into many languages, but not Arabic! |
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