Jerusalem police have approved a request by a group of "bereaved families" and activists to hold a protest on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance day, at the "Yad Vashem" Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delivers a speech inside the museum, protestors will gather outside to decry the Prime Minister’s planned renewal of negotiations with the new PLO Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), a known holocaust denier
The protesters will "highlight Abu Mazen's record of Holocaust denial and support for the continued targeted killings of Jews." They will carry banners, which read: "negotiations with Abu Mazen are a blow to the memory of those murdered in the Holocaust."
Abu Mazen holds a Ph.D. in history from Moscow's Oriental College. His doctoral thesis there served as a basis for his 1984 book, "The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism." In this book, Abbas raised "doubts" that gas chambers were used for extermination of Jews. Using arguments previously espoused by a known French Holocaust denier, Abbas suggested that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust was "less than a million."
According to a translation provided by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the book repeatedly attempts to cast doubt on the fact that the Nazis slaughtered six million Jews.
One of those attending the protest on Tuesday will be Ari Dann, himself a grandson of holocaust survivors. Dann told IsraelNationalNews why he will participate in the Tuesday demonstration: "Abu Mazen's denial of the holocaust bespeaks the culture of hate and indoctrination that he himself continues to sow within the Palestinian Authority . Mein Kampf continues to be a best seller in the territories and Palestinian leaders from Haj Amin al Husseini [Yasser Arafats uncle, who met with Hitler do discuss their mutual Jewish problem] to Abu Mazen continue to draw erroneous and terrifying lessons from Holocaust Day as they continue their genocidal pursuit of our people."
The protesters will "highlight Abu Mazen's record of Holocaust denial and support for the continued targeted killings of Jews." They will carry banners, which read: "negotiations with Abu Mazen are a blow to the memory of those murdered in the Holocaust."
Abu Mazen holds a Ph.D. in history from Moscow's Oriental College. His doctoral thesis there served as a basis for his 1984 book, "The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism." In this book, Abbas raised "doubts" that gas chambers were used for extermination of Jews. Using arguments previously espoused by a known French Holocaust denier, Abbas suggested that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust was "less than a million."
According to a translation provided by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the book repeatedly attempts to cast doubt on the fact that the Nazis slaughtered six million Jews.
One of those attending the protest on Tuesday will be Ari Dann, himself a grandson of holocaust survivors. Dann told IsraelNationalNews why he will participate in the Tuesday demonstration: "Abu Mazen's denial of the holocaust bespeaks the culture of hate and indoctrination that he himself continues to sow within the Palestinian Authority . Mein Kampf continues to be a best seller in the territories and Palestinian leaders from Haj Amin al Husseini [Yasser Arafats uncle, who met with Hitler do discuss their mutual Jewish problem] to Abu Mazen continue to draw erroneous and terrifying lessons from Holocaust Day as they continue their genocidal pursuit of our people."