NU professor backs denial of Holocaust by Iran chief: Jewish leaders fear support could add credibility to view

A Northwestern University professor known for denying the Holocaust happened has publicly sided with Iran's hard-line president, who has been on a campaign against Israel. Engineering professor Arthur Butz said Friday that he agrees with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks calling the Holocaust a 'myth.' Butz said his comments supporting the president recently were published by the English-language Tehran Times and Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency. (...) Butz said he spoke to the Iranian press because "sometimes I just talk about the things I'm interested in." Butz said in the Mehr report that the Holocaust didn't happen, that it is a "deliberately contrived falsehood" and that its promulgation was motivated by the desire to create a Jewish state in the Middle East. "I continue to maintain those three theses, which have become core features of what is called 'Holocaust revisionism.' Apart from some nuances of wording, the three theses were repeated by President Ahmadinejad. Therefore, there can be no question that I endorse his remarks in those respects," Butz wrote. Since 1996, Butz has posted his views about the Holocaust on his Northwestern-affiliated Web site, including information from his 1976 book "The Hoax of the 20th Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry." siehe auch: IDGR: Die Leugner sowie IDGR: Butz, Arthur U.S. professor supports Iranian president's Holocaust statements