DEFAMATION LEAGUE ‘OUTRAGED’

May 31, 2007 on 7:02 pm | Friedrich Braun | Revisionism | | Email This Post | Print this Post

Swiss floated idea of neutral ‘Holocaust’ seminar

ADL Outraged At Report That Swiss Foreign Ministry Floated Idea Of Holocaust Seminar With Iran

ADL Thursday, 31 May 2007

NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed
outrage at a report that the Swiss foreign ministry proposed a seminar
“about different perceptions about the Holocaust” during talks with
Iran over its nuclear program last year.

The idea was reportedly floated by Switzerland’s president, Micheline
Calmy-Rey, during a working visit with the Iranian deputy foreign
minister on December 21, 2006, shortly after the Iranian government
sponsored its Holocaust denial conference in Tehran. Word of the
proposed Swiss seminar emerged this week in written proceedings
of the meeting obtained by the weekly Zurich-based newspaper,
Weltwoche.

“We are outraged that the Swiss government could have pitched the
idea of a seminar on the Holocaust to — of all countries — Iran,” said
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor.
“The Swiss government owes an apology to all Holocaust survivors.”

According to the report in Weltwoche, minutes from the diplomatic
meeting indicated that Ms. Calmy-Rey had proposed “that a seminar
about different perceptions of the Holocaust could be organized in
one of the Geneva centers.”

Mr. Foxman said: “Any seminar on so-called perceptions of the
Holocaust, especially one that would possibly include Iranian
participants, would be tainted because it would aid and give comfort
to the anti-Semites and the deniers who call the fact of the Holocaust
into question.”

The article notes that there has been no follow-up on the seminar
since it was first proposed at the meeting, and that Ms. Calmy-Rey,
through a spokesman, indicated that she made clear to her Iranian
counterpart that the Holocaust was historical fact.

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5062_52.htm

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