The Anti-Defamation League accused Syria’s president of giving “aid and comfort” to Holocaust deniers. Appearing on the “Charlie Rose” show on PBS recently, Bashar Assad repeatedly refused to say whether he thought the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews, but said that “what is going on in Palestine” is the same as what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust.
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