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

Jimbaran Jimbaran is a fishing village and tourist resort in Bali, Indonesia. Located south of Ngurah Rai International Airport, the beach has seafood restaurants and luxury hotels, including the five-star Le Méridien Bali Jimbaran, Kayumanis Private Es ...

Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. The conference aimed to promote

religious tolerance Religious toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful". ...

and affirm the reality of

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

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

Indonesian president The President of the Republic of Indonesia ( id, Presiden Republik Indonesia) is both the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Indonesia. The president leads the executive branch of the Indonesian government and is ...

Abdurrahman Wahid Abdurrahman Wahid ( ; born Abdurrahman ad-Dakhil; 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), though more colloquially known as Gus Dur (), was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the 4th president of Indonesia, from ...

, and was sponsored by the

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, the

Simon Wiesenthal Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a Jewish human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier. The center is known for Holocaust research and remembrance, hunting Nazi war criminals, combating anti-Semitism, tolerance educa ...

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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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),

, his views about the Holocaust are wrong and that it really happened. Among the attendants were Abraham Cooper, a rabbi and the associate dean of the

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

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...

Sol Teichman; Indonesian

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priest

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;

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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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Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

;

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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.

External links

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 History of Bali Holocaust denial International conferences in Indonesia Islam and Judaism 2007 conferences 2007 in Indonesia June 2007 events in Asia

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