Editing Holocaust denial (section)

=== Israel ===
Israel's Prime Minister, [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], at a speech to the [[World Zionist Congress]] in 2015, [[Benjamin_Netanyahu#Fourth_term|claimed Adolf Hitler did not want to exterminate Jews]] but only wanted to expel them from Europe, and the extermination of the Jews was the idea of [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]], the [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Netanyahu Holocaust remarks: Israeli PM criticised |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34594563 |work=BBC |date=21 October 2015 |quote=But in a speech at the World Zionist Congress, external in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Mr Netanyahu gave a different account. "Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time - he wanted to expel the Jews," the Israeli prime minister said. "And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said: 'If you expel them, they'll all come here.' "'So what should I do with them?' he [Hitler] asked. He [Husseini] said: 'Burn them.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=HELLER |first1=ARON |title=Netanyahu causes uproar by linking Palestinians to Holocaust |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-61ead35a427a408e9d93d43f41cfa064 |work=AP |date=October 21, 2015}}</ref> Scholars denied this claim, including [[Moshe Zimmermann]] who said that it reinforced the opinions of the far-right and Holocaust deniers. Zimmerman stated that "Any attempt to deflect the burden from Hitler to others is a form of Holocaust denial". Netanyahu later told reporters that he was not letting Hitler off the hook for the Holocaust and that the Mufti's role should not be ignored.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beaumont |first1=Peter |last2=Reed |first2=Betsy |title= Outrage over Holocaust comments intensifies as Netanyahu meets Kerry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/22/holocaust-comments-binyamin-netanyahu-john-kerry-berlin |work=The Guardian |date=22 Oct 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Heller |first1=Aron |title=Scholars slam Netanyahu for suggesting WW II-era Palestinian leader inspired Holocaust |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/scholars-slam-netanyahu-for-suggesting-ww-ii-era-palestinian-leader-inspired-holocaust-1.3282286 |work=BBC |agency=The Associated Press |date=Oct 21, 2015}}</ref>