Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert AP PHOTO

The 67 participants from 30 countries included former U.S. Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and a number of Western Holocaust skeptics who have been prosecuted in Europe for publishing their theories casting doubt on whether 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on the world to protest the conference, terming it "a sick phenomenon."

German Parliament President Norbert Lammert protested the conference in a letter to Iran, calling it anti-Semitic propaganda "under the pretext of scientific freedom."

The Japan Times Weekly: Dec. 16, 2006
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