This post contains four items:
1) The Jordanian Writers Association (JWA) Sets a New Date for its Forum on Historical Revisionism in Amman
2) An Invitation to the JWA from a Zionist Institution in the USA
3) Dr. Ibrahim Alloush's comments to # 2
4) Zundelsite comments on the three items above
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1) The Jordanian Writers Association (JWA) Sets a New Date for its Forum on Historical Revisionism in Amman:
After having its forum forcibly postponed on April 8th by Jordanian authorities, the Jordanian Writers Association (JWA) has chosen a new date for the gathering that will take place to discuss the theme of "What Happened to the Revisionist Historians Conference in Beirut?"
The forum will take place on Sunday, April 22, 2001, at 6:30 in the evening, at the offices of the Jordanian Writers Association in Amman. The speakers will be the same ones who were supposed to speak in the postponed forum, except, they're much more enthusiastic : )
These speakers are:
1) Hayat Atiyah, a Lebanese journalist specialized in European historical revisionism and a staunch secularist.
2) Arafat Hijjazi, a Jordanian journalist known for his anti-Zionist stances.
3) Ibrahim Alloush, editor of the Free Arab Voice (www.fav.net), and a member of the board of the Association against Zionism and Racism.
The moderator of the forum will be Dr. Hisham Ghassib, a university professor and the president of the Socialist Thought Forum. As one of the most prominent Marxist intellectuals in Jordan, Dr. Ghassib has expressed extreme disgust with Arab leftists who are soft on Zionism or who supported the expropriation of free speech in Beirut in the name of internationalism. He says Arab leftists who take such positions need to re-read Marx's text On the Jewish Question and the original positions of Lenin and the Third International towards Zionism and Jewish immigration to Palestine, including the consideration of the mere concept of a Jewish nation or "Israel" as reactionary and contrary to the interests of working people everywhere.
Dr. Ghassib and the three speakers above were summoned by high officials of the Ministry of the Interior on April 7th and informed that their forum shall be postponed.
The JWA has already issued a statement denouncing the statement that was allegedly signed by fourteen "Arab" intellectuals calling on the Lebanese Government to ban the revisionist conference in Beirut.
Furthermore, work is ongoing with intellectuals from other Arab countries to host a conference for revisionist historians somewhere in the Arab World with local Arab participation.
No amount of oppression will keep the truth from getting out.
2) An Invitation to the JWA from a Zionist Institution in the USA http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pr_print.cfm?ItemId=860
April 11, 2001
ANOTHER GATHERING ON HOLOCAUST DENIAL BLOCKED IN ARAB CAPTIAL; WIESENTHAL CENTER INVITES JORDANIAN INTELLECTUALS TO 'SIT DOWN AND TALK'
Just ten days after Lebanese President Rafiq Hariri canceled a Holocaust deniers conference in Beirut, a similar gathering slated for Amman, Jordan was 'postponed', apparently over concerns that it would embarrass Jordan's King Abdullah who is in Washington for his inaugural meeting with U.S. President George Bush.
The three speakers and one moderator were informed last Saturday that the "Forum on Revisionist (Holocaust) Historians" could not proceed on April 8th, because of the potential embarrassment it could cause King Abdullah on the eve of his first summit with President Bush.
"We welcome the decision by authorities to abort this gathering which, rather than promote the free exchange of ideas and better understanding of history, would have served as an endorsement of those forces seeking to whitewash the Nazi holocaust, history's most documented genocide," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center who led the effort to cancel the deniers conclave in Beirut.
"We note that the Jordanian Writers Association is apparently planning to condemn prominent Arab intellectuals who also spoke out against the denial of the Shoah and that they plan to reschedule the Amman Forum," said Cooper. "Instead, we at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who were honored to host the late King Hussein at its Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, invites the head of the Jordanian Writers Union to send a delegation to visit our institution and to meet face-to-face with survivors of that horrific era. While we can have different attitudes towards peace in the Middle East, people of good will should work together to reject revisionism and antisemitism," he added.
Rabbi Cooper stated that there has been a rising tide of antisemitism, Holocaust denial and allusions of Israelis as Nazis by top officials in Syria, and in the official media in Egypt, Iran and the Palestinian Authority.
"The goal is clear - the demonization of Israel and the Jewish people," Cooper concluded.
For more information, contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036.
[End of Press Release from Zionist Institution]
3) Dr. Ibrahim Alloush's comments to # 2
Dear Readers,
If you haven't figured out the response of the Jordanian Writers Association to the invitation from the Zionist institution yet, please re-read item one above.
Not all Arab intellectuals are like the fourteen who signed the petition to Lebanese authorities on the behalf of Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who was leading the fight to ban the revisionist conference in Beirut according to the statement from the Simon Wiesenthal Center above. The JWA will not be party to breaking the psychological barrier with those who kill our people and steal our land. If some Arab regimes and intellectuals are tripping all over themselves to normalize relations with the invader, let the Zionists know that most Arab people will never accept their occupation of Palestine as normal. The atrocities committed by the Zionists in Palestine are the REAL Holocaust, and the Palestinian Arabs are its true survivors. So long as there is Zionism in Palestine, there will be resistance. A necessary part of that resistance is resistance of the very idea that the Zionist presence in Palestine is somehow normal or acceptable, under the pretext that Jews died in WWII, or any other pretext.
4. Zundelsite comments on the three items above:
A few days ago I cautioned an over-enthusiastic Revisionist to treat the Jordanian Writers Association and other potential allies of Revisionism with utmost care and consideration for their attitudes and tactics in dealing with the "enemy at their gates." They must trust us as we trust them, for we can help each other.
It is not up to us to tell the Arabs what to do and how to handle the human rights violations inflicted by the Zionists on mostly unarmed, helpless, displaced people - even children with rocks in their hands. It is our duty only to tell them that we have carefully examined the sword and shield of Zionism, their so-called "Holocaust" - and exposed it as a fraud and fabrication through scientific scrutiny. We found it sadly lacking in substance, truth and facts. What the Arab world does with such dynamic information is up to them. They have their tragic historical context as imminent victims of Zionist policies - we have ours as Zion's victims of the past.
It is quite evident to me that our story is not known to them and that we know - as they apparently do not - that Marxist-Communism carries Jewish thumb prints. Therefore, I must admit I was a bit taken aback when I read that one of the speakers at the planned Forum on the cancelled Revisionist conference is a well-known and passionate Marxist, now thoroughly disgusted with the Left. To many of us, having survived the unmatched atrocities that were inflicted on the European people before, during and after World War II by "Marxism" and its fellow travelers, the term carries all the connotation that "Nazism" carries in the West - that of inhuman, even satanic brutalities inflicted not only on soldiers but on helpless and innocent people. The crimes of Marxism and its disastrous policies were no less devastating to the people of Eastern Europe than are the policies of militant Zionism to the people it holds in subjugation in Palestine, Gaza and the West Bank.
When I discussed this with Ernst Zundel, he told me: "Are we seeing in the Arab countries the same phenomenon we experienced in the early days of Revisionism - where dedicated leftists, even Marxists, who had joined the "Social Revolution" out of genuine conviction for the suffering masses, evaluated their position from a sense of outraged betrayal - after they realized what Judaic Bolshevism had on its conscience? And, as a consequence, came over to our side and joined us in our struggle? Some of the finest Revisionists today came out of the leftist camp."
Let's keep before our eyes that one common denominator that binds different people to a common cause in the Revisionist camp: A genuine love for the truth, an understanding of the very serious human rights abuses that grew out of the Monstrous Lie we call the "Holocaust" - and, above all, a common enemy.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
The Holocaust, the great flagship of the Jewish oligarchy, rigged with perjured testimony, falsified documents, dishonest document translations, confessions extracted by torture, suppressed evidence, locked archives and persecuted dissidents, puffed along by the winds of "moral certainty", collides with the iceberg of revisionist history.
(Letter to the Zundelsite)
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