AFP Whitewashes Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Denial
In an article today, Agence France Presse whitewashes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial, stating:
Ahmadinejad has earned the wrath of Israel and Western powers for repeatedly refusing to acknowledge the scale of the Holocaust . . . (“Iran hails Mauritania’s decision to cut ties with Israel,” emphasis added)
Ahmadinejad has not merely questioned the “scale” of the Holocaust. Rather, the Iranian president has repeatedly declared the World War II genocide of the Jews a “myth.” Consider the following articles from AFP’s very own archives:
Ahmedinejad [sic] used the Quds Day rally in Tehran, an annual display of solidarity with the Palestinians, to once again lay into arch-foe Israel.
“The very existence of this regime is an insult to the dignity of the people. They (Western powers) launched the myth of the Holocaust. They lied, they put on a shoe and then they support the Jews,” he said. . . (“US slams Iran leader’s ‘hateful’ remarks on Holocaust,” Sept. 18, 2009)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated his view on Saturday that the Holocaust of Jews under Nazi Germany was a “myth” and argued that Palestinians and Iraqis were suffering from “the real Holocaust.”
“Questioning the myth of the Holocaust and the creation of the phoney regime of Zionism has haunted them,” the president said in a speech marking the 27th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution.
“For more than 60 years, this myth has enabled the Zionists to blackmail the Western countries, justify the killing of women and children and make them refugees in occupied land,” he said.
“The real Holocaust is happening today in Palestine and Iraq. If you are looking for the real Holocaust, look at the poor Iraqi people,” he said. . . (“Ahmadinejad repeates Holocaust is a ‘myth,'” Feb. 11, 2006)
Israel’s firebrand President Mahmoud Admadinejad launched a fresh attack against Israel on Wednesday, dismissing the Holocaust as a “myth” and saying the Jewish state should be moved as far away as Alaska. . . .
“They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets,” the right-winger declared in a speech carried live on state television.
“If somebody in their country questions God, nobody says anything, but if somebody denies the myth of the massacre of Jews, the Zionist loudspeakers and the governments in the pay of Zionism will start to scream,” he said. (“Iran’s Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a ‘myth,'” Dec. 14, 2005)
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