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Canada – A Step Away From Holocaust Task Force
By Michelle Collins

While largely symbolic, the move will allow Canada to share the way its different jurisdictions teach students about the Holocaust, and take away lessons learned from the task force’s 25 other member countries.

Article Continues… (IsraelBehindTheNews.com)

While the Holocaust denial in this clip is especially troubling, it’s unfortunately become a standard on news & opinion programs in the Middle East.

The thing that gets me is the accusation that Al Qaeda and the Mossad were working together on 9/11. In order to accept this nonsense, one would have to believe the following:

1) Al Qaeda can set aside it’s antisemitic feeling long enough to work with Israel in attacking a more-hated enemy.

2) Israel would side with organizations that want it wiped off the map in order to attack its closest ally.

Being a filmmaker doesn’t make one an expert on world events. If anything, it makes you an expert on fabricating stories that are more entertaining than real life.

When Ellen Goodman likened climate skeptics to holocaust deniers last February, she raised more than a few eyebrows. Yet, hers was not the first reprehensible use of that fetid analogy, nor, unfortunately, would it be the last. In truth, environmentalists’ deplorable trivialization of Hitler’s genocide can be traced as far back as the late 1980′s (by an ambitious senator from Tennessee) and as recently as last month by the scientist considered to be the world’s premiere global warming researcher.

Full Article (American Thinker)

Well, for starters, one of these things is believed to be a myth by certain anti-semites, the other actually is. For example: Warmist polar expedition was cancelled due to extreme cold

In all seriousness, this is even more proof that we’re far enough removed from the Holocaust for it to happen again, as we’ve lost all concept of the horror and severity of it.

by James B. of Screw Loose Change

Based on a recommendation from a reader, I recently picked up and read “Denying the Holocaust” by Emory Religious Studies Professor Deborah Lipstadt. Now we have spoken before on the overlap of Holocaust and 9/11 deniers (no, that does not mean every 9/11 truther is an anti-Semite, but they certainly have their representation) but I was struck by the sheer number of similarities between the two movements. This began even from the first page of the preface where the author mentions that a poll showed 22% of Americans believed it was possible the Holocaust never happened. Kind of puts all of those truther polls in perspective.

The similarities do not end there, the deniers of different sorts share so many techniques and logical fallacies that in many ways they are interchangeable but for the specifics of the subject matter.

Full Article (Screw Loose Change)

I’m pretty sure my feelings on both the 9/11 “truth” movement and Holocaust denial have been made clear in previous entries. That being said, it hasn’t escaped me that the two movements seem to be merging together at some level. I find myself curious as to how all of that will play out.

Minister Herzog initiates conference to discuss recent findings on Holocaust, find ways to educate European youths on subject. ‘Anti-Semitism and Islamic extremism in Europe are cause for concern,’ he says

Full Article (ynet)

Considering that Holocaust denial seems to be a growing trend, this is probably a good idea.