Aljazeera, Qatari media network, suspended two of its journalists over video content they posted on Friday that questioned the “truth” of the Holocaust, number of Jews killed, but also asserted that “the Zionist movement benefited from it.”
"Al Jazeera completely disowns the offensive content in question and reiterated that Al Jazeera would not tolerate such material on any of the Network’s platforms," Dr. Yaser Bishr the Executive Director of Digital Division said.
The controversial video was promoted in Arabic: “Gas ovens killed millions of Jews. That’s what the story says. What is the truth of the Holocaust and how did the Zionist movement benefit from it?”
A woman who took part in making the video tweeted, “did Hitler kill six million Jews? And how did Israeli occupation benefit from extermination?” She also asked if Hitler had cooperated with Zionism.
The seven minute-long, Arabic-language video asserted that though the Holocaust did occur, "it's different from how the Jews tell it”.
"The Jews weren't the only targets of the Nazis, but also Gypsies [Roma], the disabled, homosexuals, and Arabs and Christians, too," the video's presenter, Muna Hawwa, said. "In all, the Nazis killed 20 million people during the Holocaust and the Final Solution, and the Jews were just a part of that. Then why does the world focus so much on Jews?".
According to the video, pre-war Europe's Jews were able to emphasize their suffering because they were wealthy and controlled media companies. In addition, it claims, the "statistics were inflated by the Zionist movement to help them establish Israel."
The Jews "exploited the Holocaust for their agenda and made the whole world focus on their murders and forget the other victims," in order to receive money from Germany, it claims, adding that "six decades after the Holocaust," and compared to other countries that were affected by it – "the reparations that Israel received were disproportionate."
A link to the original tweet has been deleted. The video and accompanying posts were swiftly deleted by AJ+ senior management from all AJ+ pages and accounts on social media.
Before its removal from the platforms on Saturday, the post reportedly gained 1.1 million views on Facebook and Twitter.
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