Conference
Mahameed was invited by the Foreign Ministry of Iran to address an international conference on "“Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision,” held in Tehran in 2005, but at the last moment he was denied a visa because he lived in Israel. He was "terribly disappointed," observing that "“When you don’t understand the Holocaust, it hinders the peace process. I wanted to go tell the Iranians that when you play down the Holocaust or deny it, you are directly hurting the Palestinian refugees who are in camps. By denying it, they are making the Jewish people feel persecuted — which doesn’t allow options for peace to develop.”
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