Roger Garaudy - Praise For Garaudy After His Death

Praise For Garaudy After His Death

Following his death in June 2012, Garaudy subsequently received praise from a number of sources (as translated by MEMRI):

• Columnist Adam Yousef wrote in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida that "Garaudy committed no crime. He merely pointed out that the number of Jews who lived in Europe during World War II did not exceed 3.5 million – so where did the six million come from, on which Israel bases the myth of the Holocaust? This is a simple scientific question, proof..."
• The Iranian news agency Fars called him "the first denier of the Holocaust myth."
• The Arab Writers Union in Syria, of which Garaudy is an honorary member, wrote that he proved that "truth and evidence-based credibility and scientific accuracy" were possible."
• Tunisian writer Tawfiq Al-Madina claimed in the Syrian daily Al-Thawra that Garaudy had "exposed the false the myths of the Zionists and their false propaganda regarding the Holocaust..."
• Fares Al-Wabasha, a columnist for the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour, wrote: "Only rarely do we encounter a prominent Western philosopher and thinker like Roger Garaudy, who supports Arab causes and exposes in a rational and scientific manner the shameful claims of the Zionist movement, undermining its colonialist enterprise in the region..."