Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Why denial of Jewish genocide thrives in the Arab world

The Nakba. (Reuters)
The Nakba. (Reuters)

To deny the Holocaust in the Western world is to be a crank, a crackpot, a crazed conspiracy theorist. In some countries, it’ll make you a criminal.

But across the Middle East, denying the incontrovertible events of the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews, as well as left-wing intellectuals and the disabled, were murdered by the Nazis is the official line. In fact, you’re in the minority if you don’t.

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