Forward Newspaper Online: Holocaust Revisionists Take On Mideast Policy

The leading Holocaust revisionist group in America is set to go on the offensive this month with a meeting in New York to discuss the "Jewish-Zionist role in fomenting war in the Middle East" and a protest in Los Angeles at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Institute for Historical Review argues that 6 million Jews were not murdered by the Nazis, and refutes the existence of gas chambers and extermination camps. The New York meeting, scheduled for July 16, will feature the institute's director, Mark Weber. According to a circulated e-mail about the event, he will discuss the "Israel-first neo-conservatives who successfully pressed for the U.S. assault against Iraq and are now pushing for an American strike against Iran and Syria." The e-mail did not reveal the planned location. The protest at the Wiesenthal Center, slated for July 29, is being billed on the group's Web site as a "rally for justice and peace." The group is charging the Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish organization dedicated to Holocaust education and human rights work, with a "record of deceit and lies in support of war, Zionist oppression and Jewish supremacism."