Iran has been organising a conference to investigate the truth behind The Holocaust. They said it would be a "scientific" investigation and unbiased because they were not involved in the issue, however President Ahmadinejad recently said that the Holocaust was a myth, or that if it were true, then Western nations were responsible and should pay the price. He has been saying this for some time. Here's another article by Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian again (the Guardian is hardly the champion of Israel). On Al-Jazeera there's a report that links a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry saying that Israel's crimes are worse than what jews suffered in the Second World War to the furore about the Danish cartoons and "Freedom of Speech" debate, so maybe this conference can be seen as a demonstration by Iran of the West's hypocrisy over freedom of speech. Iran made a similar move in August 2006 with an exhibition in Tehran of "Holocaust Cartoons". More discussion of the conference on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" site. The Guardian also has this story from just after the liberation of Buchenwald about a young boy from Lodz who escaped from Auschwitz after witnessing the gas chambers in action.
Update Christmas 2006: Frances Harrison reports for the BBC on the Conference.
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