Editing Genocide denial (section)

==By individuals and non-governmental organizations==
* In his 1984 book ''[[The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism]]'' Palestinian President [[Mahmoud Abbas]] argued that only "a few hundred thousand" Jews were murdered in [[the Holocaust]], the Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves because of their behavior, and [[Zionists]] had collaborated with the Nazis in an attempt to send more Jews to Israel. In a 2006 interview, without retracting these specific claims, he stated: "The Holocaust was a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a [[crime against humanity]] that cannot be accepted by humankind."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-told-us-to-ignore-israeli-map-reservations-1.8840 |title=U.S. told us to ignore Israeli map reservations |author=Akiva Eldar |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |date=28 May 2003 |access-date=23 March 2014 |archive-date=20 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120164725/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-told-us-to-ignore-israeli-map-reservations-1.8840 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* In February 2006 [[David Irving]] was imprisoned in [[Austria]] for [[Holocaust denial]]; he served 13 months in prison before being released on probation.<ref>{{cite news |author=Staff |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4733820.stm |title=Holocaust denier Irving is jailed |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805031758/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4733820.stm |archive-date=5 August 2019 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=20 February 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Veronika |last=Oleksyn |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122000219.html |title=Holocaust Denier Freed, Gets Probation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125162715/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122000219.html |archive-date=25 November 2018 |date=20 December 2006}}</ref>
* [[David Campbell (academic)|David Campbell]] has written of the now defunct British magazine ''[[Living Marxism]]'' that "LM's intentions are clear from the way they have sought to publicize accounts of contemporary atrocities which suggest they were certainly not genocidal (as in the case of [[Rwandan genocide|Rwanda]]), and perhaps did not even occur (as in the case of the murder of nearly 8,000 at [[Srebrenica massacre|Srebrenica]])."<ref>{{cite web |first=David |last=Campbell |author-link=David Campbell (academic) |url=http://www.virtual-security.net/attrocity/atroindex.htm |title=ITN vs Living Marxism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040408183256/http://www.virtual-security.net/attrocity/atroindex.htm |archive-date=8 April 2004}}, [http://www.virtual-security.net/attrocity/atrocity2.htm Part 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416030737/http://www.virtual-security.net/attrocity/atrocity2.htm |date=16 April 2008}}. Footnote [49] cites Linda Ryan "[http://archive.serbianunity.net/politics/war_crimes/srebrenica/linda.html What's in a 'mass grave'?, Living Marxism, Issue 88, March 1996] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724061152/http://archive.serbianunity.net/politics/war_crimes/srebrenica/linda.html |date=24 July 2011}}" (The link he provides in the footnote does not exist any more so the link is a substitute). Accessed 20 April 2008</ref><ref name="McGreal-2000-03-20">{{cite news |last=McGreal |first=Chris |url=https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,3604,181819,00.html |title=Genocide? What genocide? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207113616/https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,3604,181819,00.html |archive-date=7 February 2017 |access-date=25 October 2009 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=20 March 2000 |url-status=live}}</ref> Chris McGreal writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'' on 20 March 2000 stated that [[Fiona Fox]] writing under a pseudonym had contributed an article to ''Living Marxism'' which was part of a campaign by ''Living Marxism'' that denied that the event which occurred in Rwanda was a genocide.<ref name="McGreal-2000-03-20"/>
* Scott Jaschik has stated that [[Justin McCarthy (American historian)|Justin McCarthy]], is one of two scholars "most active on promoting the view that no Armenian genocide took place".<ref>{{cite news |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |title=Genocide Deniers |url=http://hnn.us/articles/43861.html |date=22 October 2007 |access-date=20 April 2008 |archive-date=22 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022102413/http://hnn.us/articles/43861.html |url-status=live}}</ref> He was one of four scholars who participated in a controversial debate hosted by [[PBS]] about the genocide.<ref name="PBS">{{cite news |title=A PBS Documentary Makes Its Case for the Armenian Genocide, With or Without a Debate |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/television/17stan.html?ex=1302926400&en=42703f4960edef66&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss |date=17 April 2006 |access-date=2 September 2006 |first=Alessandra |last=Stanley |archive-date=28 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160228032855/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/television/17stan.html?ex=1302926400&en=42703f4960edef66&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Darko Trifunovic is the author of the ''[[Report about Case Srebrenica]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=15401773&v3=1 |title=Brief Record |publisher=US [[Library of Congress]] |access-date=22 April 2009 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511235031/https://catalog.loc.gov/legacy.html |url-status=live}}</ref> which was commissioned by the government of the [[Republika Srpska]].<ref name="Katana">{{cite web |first=Gordana |last=Katana |url=http://www.iwpr.net/index.php?apc_state=hen&s=o&o=p=tri&l=EN&s=f&o=164405 |title=REGIONAL REPORT: Bosnian Serbs Play Down Srebrenica |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511234952/https://iwpr.net/?apc_state=hen&s=o&o=p=tri&l=EN&s=f&o=164405 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |website=Institute for War & Peace Reporting |access-date=25 October 2009}}</ref> The [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] (ICTY) reviewed the report and concluded that it "represented one of the worst examples of revisionism, in relation to the mass executions of Bosniaks committed in Srebrenica in July 1995".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icty.org/case/deronjic/4#tjug |title=Judgement against Miroslav Deronjic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326020700/http://www.icty.org/case/deronjic/4#tjug |archive-date=26 March 2010 |website=ICTY}}</ref> After the report was published on 3 September 2002, it provoked outrage and condemnation by a wide variety of Balkans and international figures, individuals, and organizations.<ref name=Katana/><ref name="Newsline030905">{{cite web |title=RFE/RL Newsline, 02-09-03: Bosnian Serbs Deny Srebrenica Massacre... |url=http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-09-03.rferl.html#70 |author=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] |date=3 September 2005 |access-date=3 July 2009 |archive-date=5 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605084659/http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-09-03.rferl.html#70 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*Patrick Karuretwa stated in the ''[[Harvard Law Record]]'' that in 2007 the Canadian politician [[Robin Philpot]] "attracted intense media attention for repeatedly denying the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hlrecord.org/opinion/release-of-rwanda-s-mastermind-of-death-promotes-genocide-denial-1.951557 |title=Release of Rwanda's mastermind of death promotes genocide denial |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206044153/http://www.hlrecord.org/opinion/release-of-rwanda-s-mastermind-of-death-promotes-genocide-denial-1.951557 |archive-date=6 February 2010 |website=[[Harvard Law Record]] |date=4 December 2009}}</ref>
*On 21 April 2016 a full-page ad appeared in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' that directed readers to ''[[Fact Check Armenia]]'', a genocide denial website sponsored by the [[Turkish lobby]] in the US. When confronted about the ad a ''Wall Street Journal'' spokesperson stated, "We accept a wide range of advertisements, including those with provocative viewpoints. While we review ad copy for issues of taste, the varied and divergent views expressed belong to the advertisers."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/full-page-wsj-ad-denying-armenian-genocide-spurs-anger-450971 |title=Full-Page WSJ Ad Denying Armenian Genocide Spurs Anger |date=21 April 2016 |newspaper=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=21 April 2016 |archive-date=21 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421235119/http://www.newsweek.com/full-page-wsj-ad-denying-armenian-genocide-spurs-anger-450971 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* American philosopher [[Steven T. Katz]] has argued that the Holocaust is the only genocide that has occurred in history.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Katz |first=Steven T. |author-link=Steven T. Katz |date=1981 |title=The "Unique" Intentionality of the Holocaust |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1396059 |url-status=live |journal=[[Modern Judaism]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=161–183 |doi=10.1093/mj/1.2.161 |issn=0276-1114 |jstor=1396059 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429035521/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1396059 |archive-date=29 April 2023 |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="novick">{{cite book |last=Novick |first=Peter |title=[[The Holocaust in American Life]] |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] |year=2000 |pages=196–197 |author-link=Peter Novick}}</ref>