UN Chief Leads Ceremony to Remember Holocaust Victims
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Pays-Bas : L auteur de propos antisémites se retire d un événement sur la Shoah
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Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (CC BY-SA Matěj Baťha/Wikimedia Commons)
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protests by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide.
In a statement published Thursday on the website of the National 4 and 5 May Committee, Dutch-Moroccan author Abdelkader Benali wrote that on the national commemoration day, “we come together to commemorate and the discussion around my remarks must not distract from that. So I’ve decided it’s better if someone else deliver the speech.”