3 February 2000

Press statement by Hamas concerning the
Stockholm Conference on the alleged Holocaust of the Jews

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.
Commenting on the international conference in Stockholm on the alleged Holocaust of the Jews during the Second World War, a responsible source in the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas - made the following statement:
The convening of this conference clearly serves the Zionist aim of falsifying history and obscuring the truth that the so-called Holocaust is nothing but a baseless, fictitious claim. This malicious conference seeks to reinforce a guilt complex vis-à-vis the Jews in Europe in general and in Germany in particular, to facilitate the continued fleecing of the world in support of the Zionist entity's expansionism and aggression. Creating great fantasies about an alleged "crime" that never happened while ignoring the millions of Europeans who died or suffered at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War clearly exposes the face of racist Zionism with its belief in the superiority of the Jewish race over all other peoples.

The attempt to rouse concern over a baseless, fictitious story while overlooking the sufferings of our people, ignoring Zionist massacres such as Deir Yasin, Kufr Qasim, Tantoura, Jerusalem, the Ibrahimi Mosque, and Sabra and Shatila, not to mention the enemy's massacres of our Arab people in Bahr al-Baqar, and Qana, and the killing of thousands of Egyptian prisoners of war, etc., all of this confirms that many western states still are deluded by erroneous Zionist propaganda. As a result, their positions lack credibility and justice as regards our cause and our people and their on-going suffering. This will never lead to stability in the Middle East region, nor will it obscure the fact that the Zionist entity was built upon racial discrimination, terrorism and repression.

By means of the Stockholm conference and the tale of the Nazi Holocaust, the Zionist entity practices psychological and intellectual terrorism. Meanwhile, in Palestine and Lebanon, it practices the bloody terrorism of which it accuses other peoples. We call upon the countries that took part in this conference to review their positions and not to submit to Zionist haughtiness or to its continued plunder. We call on free-minded thinkers and writers and the vital forces of the world to work to uncover the crimes of world Zionism against our people, our nation, and against humanity as a whole, to expose them and not to fear the assault of the Jews, their intellectual terrorism, and their efforts to stifle voices and keep fair thinkers and researchers from exposing the claims and lies of Zionism. For the Jews in the world oppose the scientific method of study and research whenever it contradicts their racist interests

 God is Greatest! Praise be to God! For it is a struggle for victory or martyrdom!

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas - Palestine