Jewish anger as pope reinstates Holocaust-denier

Jan 25, 2009

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre on Sunday slammed a Holocaust-denying English bishop whose
ex-communication has been cancelled by Pope Benedict XVI.

"It is scandalous that someone of this stature in the Church denies the
Holocaust," the institution said in a statement, referring to Bishop Richard
Williamson who has publicly denied the murder of six million Jews during World
War II.

"Denial of the Holocaust not only insults the survivors, memory of the victims
and the righteous among the nations who risked their lives to rescue the Jews,
it is a brutal attack on truth," Yad Vashem said.

"What kind of message is this sending regarding the Church's attitude toward
the Holocaust?"

The Wiesenthal Centre, an international Jewish human rights body, said: "The
Pope's decision to welcome back such a hater into the Church lends moral
credence to deniers of history's worst crime.



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