But in the Arab world? It’s typical fare on evening television.

Recently, while the rest of the world was commemorating that dark chapter in our history on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Egyptian TV host Ahmad Suleiman was informing his viewers that the Holocaust was “the greatest lie in history.”

Suleiman insisted that the Holocaust was nothing but a “nonsense story invented by Jews, who have been using it for years to extort the world. The Jews of the world have disseminated this lie, using their influence and their arsenal of media outlets. They label anyone denying that story an antisemite and fight him.”

He went on to claim that the notion that Adolf Hitler decided to exterminate six million Jewish inhabitants of Europe is “completely groundless.” In the eyes of many Arabs like Suleiman, the story of the Holocaust is nothing but a ruse designed to provide the Jews with cover as they “massacre, rob and plunder others.”

But, the Jews weren’t alone in this scheme.

According to Suleiman, who was citing other infamous Holocaust deniers,...

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