The Bali Holocaust Conference was held on June 12, 2007 in

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. The conference aimed to promote

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and affirm the reality of

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and was attended by rabbis, Holocaust witnesses, and Muslim leaders, teachers and students. This event was convened by former

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Abdurrahman Wahid Abdurrahman Wahid ( ; né ad-Dakhil, 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), more colloquially known as Gus Dur (), was an Indonesian politician and Islam in Indonesia, Islamic Kyai, religious leader who served as the fourth president of Indone ...

, and was sponsored by the

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, the

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in Los Angeles, and the Libforall Foundation. Wahid stated that although he is a good friend of

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ian

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, his views about the Holocaust are wrong and that it really happened. Among the attendants were

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; C. Holland Taylor, the chief executive officer of the Libforall Foundation; American

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Sol Teichman; Indonesian

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priest Franz Magnis-Suseno;

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n religious leader

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; Tumini, a Balinese woman who was severely burned when

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-linked militants targeted two nightclubs in 2002; Rabbi

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, director of the

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;

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, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at

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in the United States and a senior consultant to the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and Ted Gover, of Pacific Research & Strategies, Inc., conference and media coordinator.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070612/wl_asia_afp/indonesiareligionislamjewsholocaust;_ylt=AsufkBIfFm8fAYE9VLJcY60Bxg8F

https://web.archive.org/web/20070926230952/http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070612-043848-7075r

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https://web.archive.org/web/20070618165540/http://www.ejpress.org/article/17388

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070904085958/http://podcast.shirenetworknews.net/:entry:tuatara-2007-06-18-0002/ Shire Network News interview with organiser Holland Taylor {{Authority control 21st century in Bali International conferences in Indonesia Islam and Judaism 2007 conferences 2007 in Indonesia June 2007 in Indonesia Jews and Judaism in Indonesia Islam in Indonesia

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