Daniel A. McGowan is the executive director of Deir Yassin Remembered, an organization seeking to build a memorial in

Deir Yassin Deir Yassin () was a Palestinian Arab village of around 600 inhabitants about west of Jerusalem. Deir Yassin declared its neutrality during the 1948 Palestine war between Arabs and Jews. The village was razed after a massacre of around 107 of ...

, a former

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

-Arab village near

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, to commemorate the

massacre A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ...

there on April 9, 1948, in which 107 or more villagers were killed by forces from the

Irgun The Irgun (), officially the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel, often abbreviated as Etzel or IZL (), was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of th ...

and Lehi paramilitary groups. Deir Yassin Remembered has been classified as an "active

Holocaust denial Historical negationism, Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazi Party, Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: ...

hate group" by the

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. The group was denounced by

Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North (UK Parliament constituency), Islington North since 1983. Now an Independent ...

's campaign after Corbyn's attendance at some Deir Yassin Remembered programs was revealed. McGowan wrote the foreword to Holocaust denier

Germar Rudolf Germar Rudolf (born 29 October 1964), also known as Germar Scheerer, is a German chemist and a convicted Holocaust denier. Background Rudolf was born in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse. In 1983 he took his Abitur in Remscheid, then studied chemistry ...

's ''Resistance is Obligatory'', published by the Barnes Review. Although McGowan has denied charges of being a Holocaust denier, he has expressed doubts about the number of Jews killed, suggesting that the death toll was instead between three million and six million and that many of the victims died from natural causes. McGowan is professor emeritus of economics at

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. He is a columnist for ''

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'', and the co-author, with Marc H. Ellis, of ''Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine'' (1998). He also runs an organization called ''Righteous Jews'', a play on the phrase righteous gentiles, for

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s willing to defend the rights of the Palestinians.

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