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Jewish Telegraph Agency, New York, Monday, March 12, 2007

A group of Orthodox Jews attending the Holocaust revisionist conference in Iran, December 2006

Holocaust denial conference attendee beaten
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A FERVENTLY Orthodox Austrian Jew who embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly was assaulted by a group of Israelis in Poland.

Ma’ariv reported Monday that Moshe Aryeh Friedman, who attended the Holocaust denial conference hosted by Ahmadinejad in Tehran in December, was spotted while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau camps over the weekend. A group of fervently Orthodox Jews from Israel also touring the sites set upon Friedman, who was born and raised in Monsey, N.Y.

“We gave him a good beating, the kind we have not given in a long time,” a member of the Israeli group, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, told Ma’ariv. “We took off his coat and hat, so he would not look like a Jew.”

According to the newspaper, Meshi-Zahav, who is one of the founders of the Israeli volunteer emergency service ZAKA, was later honored with a special Torah reading in the synagogue.

 BBC: Why are Jews at the ‘Holocaust denial’ conference?

 March 4, 2007: David Irving notices “several columns of Israelis marching around the [Auschwitz] site, carrying blue and white flags as though they are an occupying army”