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Conference on Holocaust : European Jewish body calls for sanctions against Iran

Updated: 12/Dec/2006 13:04

American researcher Raul Hilberg, the author of "Destruction of the European Jews", which is widely considered one of the standard texts on the Holocaust.

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PARIS/BERLIN (AFP)--- The European Jewish Congress "condemned in the strongest terms" the conference in Iran Monday questioning the truth of the Holocaust and urged European leaders to take sanctions against Tehran.

In a statement, the Jewish body blasted the "negationist and revisionist" conference organized by the Islamic republic, attended by Western figures it described as "pseudo-historians and intellectuals" who have downplayed the scale of the Holocaust or denied that it claimed the lives of six million Jews.

"How far will Europe go in accepting such insults to the memory of humanity and such threats to world peace as the Iranian regime is now doing?" asked Pierre Besnainou, president of the Paris-based EJC which is a branch of the World Jewish Congress.

He said the "time to negotiate is finished" and called "solemnly on European leaders to take all sanctions necessary against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."

Holocaust scholars meet in Berlin

International researchers meeting in Berlin on Monday condemned Holocaust revisionism.

In the city where the Holocaust was planned by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, scholars said they wanted to make a stand against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

US researcher Raul Hilberg, the author of "Destruction of the European Jews", which is widely considered one of the standard texts on the Holocaust, said he wanted to make "a statement" by attending the Berlin conference.

"I don’t think a dialogue is possible with people who deny the Holocaust," he said.

The Berlin meeting was organised by the publicly funded Federal Centre for Political Education (BPB).

The conference will review the latest research into revisionism and anti-Semitism in Europe and the Muslim world, and considering how to counter them.

The president of the BPB, Thomas Krueger, said the conference was designed to respond to the "absurd arguments" of Ahmadinejad, who has questioned the existence of the Holocaust and said Israel should be wiped off the map.