Some 70 Palestinian professors, journalists and religious leaders rallied in the Gaza Strip to support a French Muslim writer on trial in Paris for denying the Holocaust. Roger Garaudy’s book, “Founding Myths of Israeli Politics,” argues that the Jewish people inflated the number of Holocaust victims for political purposes.
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