King's College London has canceled a May 19 lecture intended to glorify a Holocaust denier in response to pressure from pro-Israel students.
The event was organized by the pro-Hamas publication Middle East Monitor Online (MEMO) to honor the late Egyptian Holocaust denier, Abdelwahab Elmessiri, and was going to feature speaker Azzam Tamimi, who is reported to be Hamas's "special envoy to the UK."
Elmessiri led the opposition organization Kefaya in Egypt until he died in 2008. In his book, “Zionism, Nazism and the End of History,” he wrote that far fewer than 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. “The Nazis desperately needed workers, why would the war machine waste its time destroying millions instead of using them as slave labourers?” he wrote.
In addition to his involvement with Hamas, Tamimi, the event’s guest speaker, was the director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought, a leading Muslim Brotherhood organization. He is known for using glorified rhetoric when speaking about Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. In 2004, he told the BBC that if he “had the opportunity,” he would become a suicide bomber in a “noble cause” for Palestine.
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