By Alan M. Dershowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/28/2007

In his speeches, most particularly the one at Columbia University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeats two myths about the Holocaust. The first every fair person knows is a total lie: namely that the Holocaust did not occur. The second myth, however, is one that escapes critical attention for the most part, considering many public are not aware of its falsity. The myth is that the Palestinian society and their leadership had absolutely nothing to do with the Holocaust. The conclusion that is supposed to follow from that fact is that the establishment of Israel in the wake of the Nazi genocide of the Jewish society was unfair to the Palestinians.

This is the way Ahmadinejad put it in his Columbia talk. ..

[G]iven that historical event [the Holocaust], whether it is a reality, we need to question whether the Palestinian citizens should be paying for it. .The Palestinian society didn.t commit any crime. They had no role to play in World War II..

These statements about the role of the Palestinians are demonstrably false. The truth is that the Palestinian leadership, supported by the Palestinian masses, played a significant role in Hitler.s Holocaust. The Palestinian leader at the moment was Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufit

of Jerusalem. As Professor Edward Said has acknowledged: .Hajj Amin al-Husseini represented the Palestinian Arab national consensus, had the backing of the Palestinian political parties that functioned in Palestine, and was recognized in some scheme by Arab governments as the voice of the Palestinian public.. Husseini was .Palestine.s national leader. and it was in that capacity that he made his notorious alliance with Hitler and played an active role in promoting the Holocaust. Here is the true story that Ahmadinejad tried to mythologize. [..]

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