misterpee
13.03.07, 20:59
Iranian Holocaust Denial Conference Attendee Beaten
JTA.org – March 12, 2007
A fervently Orthodox Austrian Jew who embraced Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad reportedly was assaulted by a group of Israelis in Poland.
Ma'ariv reported Monday that Moshe Aryeh Friedman, who attended the Holocaust
denial conference hosted by Ahmadinejad in Tehran in December, was spotted
while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau camps over the weekend. A
group of fervently Orthodox Jews from Israel also touring the sites set upon
Friedman, who was born and raised in Monsey, N.Y.
"We gave him a good beating, the kind we have not given in a long time," a
member of the Israeli group, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, told Ma'ariv. "We took off
his coat and hat, so he would not look like a Jew." According to the
newspaper, Meshi-Zahav, who is one of the founders of the Israeli volunteer
emergency service ZAKA, was later honored with a special Torah reading in the
synagogue.
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/100521.html