March 22, 2011 – New York – AJC has voiced dismay over the unwillingness of a Norwegian legislator to renounce his open denial of the Holocaust.

“The Holocaust is the most documented genocidal crime in history,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. “For anyone, especially a European politician, whose country was occupied by the Nazis from 1940 to 1945, to question the veracity of the systematic Nazi murder of six million Jews is simply incomprehensible.”

Anders Mathisen, the Norwegian Parliament member, told the newspaper Finnmarken that “there is no evidence the gas chambers or mass graves existed.” His own Labor Party criticized Mathisen for his views on the Holocaust.

“One wonders what truly motivates someone like Mathisen to project such basic hatred of the Jewish people, so much that he insists on denying the most tragic period in our modern history,” said Harris. “The sooner Norwegians encourage him to leave the Labor Party and parliament, and perhaps meet with survivors and liberators of the death camps, the better for all.”

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