Editing Institute for Historical Review (section)

==Connections with Arab, Islamic opponents of Israel==

Issa Nakhleh, an attorney who has served as [[U.N.]] Observer of the [[Arab Higher Committee]] for Palestine, who already in 1972 openly denied the Holocaust,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wk0oAQAAMAAJ&q=issa+nakhleh+hitler National Lampoon, 1973, p.58, New York Times (L. Kagan)] According to Issa Nakhleh, a Palestinian Arab leader, the six million ... generally thought to have been exterminated by Hitler are “very much alive" and living in the United States and Israel after fabricating the well-known story of their deaths...</ref><ref>''The Times from San Mateo, California,'' November 14, 1972, page 10: Nov. 14, 1972 - Arab Says Hitler Didn't Kill Jews UNITED NATIONS (UPI) - The extermination of six million Jews on orders of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was "a big lie" concocted by Jews who are still "very much alive" in the United States and Israel, a Palestinian Arab told the United Nations Monday. Issa Nakhleh head of the so - called "Palestine Arab delegation." addressed the. General Assembly's special political committee</ref> and, "who, during the 1960s and early 1970s, was associated with [[Gerald L.K. Smith]] (writing for Smith’s publication, The Cross and the Flag), and with the racist West Coast group, Western Front, in 1981,... spoke at the Third Annual Convention of the Institute for Historical Review,..."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hPUSAQAAMAAJ&q=nakhleh The American Spectator, Volume 19, 1986 p.20] Issa Nakhleh, an attorney who has served as U.N. Observer of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, and who, during the 1960s and early 1970s, was associated with the late Gerald L.K. Smith (writing for Smith’s publication, The Cross and the Flag), and with the racist West Coast group, Western Front. In 1981 Nakhleh spoke at the Third Annual Convention of the Institute for Historical Review, . . .</ref><ref>[http://www.nizkor.com/ftp.cgi?orgs/american/ihr//nakhleh Nizkor-Shofar / IHR / Nakhleh]</ref> Described as the "chairman of the Palestine-Arab Committee," he was a highlighted speaker<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MhtnAAAAMAAJ&dq=&q=Nakhleh][https://www.ajc.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2017-08/HolocaustDenial.pdf] Holocaust Denial, by Kenneth S. Stern: The American Jewish Committee, New York, 1993, p.170. At the IHR's Third Revisionist Conference, lssah Nakhleh, described as "chairman of the Palesline-Arab Committee," was a highlighted speaker</ref> and in 1982, he published an article for IHR.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sSEuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT224&lpg=PT224] ''Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam''. By David Dalin, 2017</ref>

In an article published in ''Hit List'' magazine in 2002, author Kevin Coogan claimed there had been attempts to forge ties between American and European Holocaust-denial groups such as the IHR and "radical [[Middle East]]ern extremists." According to Coogan, [[Ahmed Rami (Holocaust denier)|Ahmed Rami]], a former [[Morocco|Moroccan]] military officer "founded [[Radio Islam]] to disseminate antisemitic, Holocaust denying, and often pro-Nazi propaganda," and tried to organize, with the IHR, a conference in a [[Hezbollah]]-controlled section of [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]].<ref name=Coogan/>

The ''[[Daily Star (Lebanon)|Daily Star]]'', the leading English-language paper in Lebanon, in response to a planned IHR meeting in the country, called its members "loathsome pseudo-historians" and the institute itself an "international hate group." The paper reported "one former [[PLO]] official [stating], '[[wiktionary:with friends like these who needs enemies|with friends like that, we don't need enemies]]'."<ref>"Don't tolerate hate", ''[[Daily Star (Lebanon)|Daily Star]]'', March 24, 2001.</ref> With the help of the anti-Israeli Jordanian Writers Association, an alternative event was held with the theme "What happened to the Revisionist Historians' Conference in Beirut?"