Messianic Jewish Author Blasts Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran
by Chad Groening
December 13, 2006
(AgapePress) - - The headof a pro-Israel ministry says she is extremely angry that Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could host in Iran's capital city a two-day conference aimed at convincing the world that the Holocaust never happened. Jan Markell, a Messianic Jewish author and head of Olive Tree Ministries, finds it scandalous that Ahmadinejad actually invited 70 activists from 30 countries to spend two days trading allegations that the death of six million Jews at the hands of Adolf Hitler never really happened. Also, on the second day of the event, the Iranian president met with conference participants and, during the meeting, predicted the fall of Israel.
The dictator was quoted by Iran's official news agency, IRNA, as saying the "Zionist regime" of Israel "will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom." The two-day conference wrapped up yesterday in Tehran.
Markell calls the entire event an outrage. And most "outrageous" of all, she observes, is the fact "that 30 nations would consider this something that they should send representatives for, because Mahmoud Amadinejad has said that the Holocaust is a myth."
Obviously, the Olive Tree Ministries spokeswoman contends, the "ultimate, bottom line goal here is to demonize the Jewish people, her history, values, faith, and the fact that she became a nation, really, as a result of the Holocaust, because of a sympathy vote in the U.N."
And as for the United Nations' response to the Iranian strongman's conference, Markell feels an unaccustomed word of commendation is due the U.N. delegates. That is because, "as corrupt as they are," she remarks, even that international body "has made a statement that Holocaust denial is [a product of] the worst of bigots, and we must reject their false claims whenever, wherever, and by whomever they are made."
Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference was so outrageous that even the United Nations condemned it and would have no part of it, Markell says. However, the ministry leader notes, she was pleased to see that the Simon Wiesenthal Center held its own event in Los Angeles, California, to counter the false claims of the Iranian leader and his Holocaust revisionists.
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
