Arab League to participate in Holocaust-denial symposium
By MICHAEL FREUND
Aug. 27, 2002
The Arab League is slated to participate in a symposium in Abu Dhabi, which organizers say will expose Israeli "lies and exaggerations about the Holocaust," according to reports in the English-language dailies Gulf News and Khaleej Times.
The symposium being held Thursday is organized by the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, a think-tank whose chairman, Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, is deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.
According to the reports on Monday, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa, a former Egyptian foreign minister, has sent a personal representative, Dr. Ahmed Saleem Jarad, to address the opening session.
In a press release describing the symposium, the Zayed Center said, "Israel has indulged in spreading lies and exaggerations about the Holocaust in order to squeeze out huge funds from European countries through blackmail."
Labeling the Holocaust a "false fable," the center said that, "The symposium aims at disclosing many historical, political fallacies promoted by Israel and Zionism through different means especially the spread of fibs and exaggerations regarding the so-called Holocaust."
The center also asserted that it was "Jewish activities" which had "agitated European hatred against Jews."
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