Editing Holocaust denial (section)

===General===
[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], the President of Egypt, told a German newspaper in 1964 that "no person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered [in the Holocaust]."<ref>{{cite book|last=Satloff|first=Robert|title=Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach Into Arab lands|publisher=PublicAffairs|year=2007|page=163|isbn=9781586485108}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Laqueur|first=Walter|title=The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2006|page=[https://archive.org/details/changingfaceofan00laqu/page/141 141]|isbn=9780195304299|url=https://archive.org/details/changingfaceofan00laqu/page/141}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Robert S. Wistrich|title=Hitler's apocalypse: Jews and the Nazi legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=acBtAAAAMAAJ|date=17 October 1985|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|isbn=978-0-297-78719-8|page=188|quote="President Nasser of Egypt in a notorious interview with the editor of the neo-Nazi Deutsche Soldaten und National Zeitung, published on 1 May 1964, insisted that No one, not even the simplest man in our country, takes seriously the lie about six million Jews who were murdered"}}</ref>

Denials of the Holocaust have been promoted by various Middle Eastern figures and media. Holocaust denial is sponsored by some Middle Eastern governments, including Iran<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6637685|title=Iran Further Isolates Itself with 'Holocaust Denial'|date=December 17, 2006|work=NPR.org|access-date=April 4, 2018|archive-date=September 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901134402/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6637685|url-status=live}}</ref> and Syria.<ref name="JVLSyria">{{cite web|title=Syrian Holocaust Denial|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/syrian-holocaust-denial|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|access-date=August 17, 2020|archive-date=December 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217011440/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/syrdenial.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2006 [[Robert Satloff]] writing in ''[[The Washington Post]]'', reported that "A respected Holocaust research institution recently reported that Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia all promote Holocaust denial and protect Holocaust deniers."<ref>{{Cite news|author=Robert Satloff|author-link=Robert Satloff|title=The Holocaust's Arab Heroes|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=B01|date=October 8, 2006|access-date=October 29, 2010|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601417.html|archive-date=November 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121035318/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601417.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Prominent figures from the Middle East have rarely made publicized visits to [[Auschwitz]]—[[Arab citizens of Israel|Israel's Arab community]] being the exception. In 2010, [[Hadash]] MK [[Mohammed Barakeh]] visited, following a previous visit of two other Arab-Israeli lawmakers, and a group of about 100 Arab-Israeli writers and clerics in 2003.<ref name="MK">{{cite news|date=January 26, 2010|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/2.209/arab-mk-s-auschwitz-visit-draws-fire-from-jewish-arab-critics-1.262131|title=Arab MK's Auschwitz visit draws fire from Jewish, Arab critics|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=Haaretz|access-date=March 23, 2014|archive-date=October 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019074444/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/2.209/arab-mk-s-auschwitz-visit-draws-fire-from-jewish-arab-critics-1.262131|url-status=live}}</ref>