In a video of a speech by Assad translated and published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Monday, Assad can be seen telling a listening crowd that “there is no evidence that six million Jews were killed” during the Holocaust.

“True, there were concentration camps, but what shows you that this is a politicized issue, not a humanitarian one and not a real one, is that we talk about these six million, but why don’t we talk about the 26 million Soviets who were killed in that war? Are the six million more precious?”

[Uh … weren’t they killed by the same Jew-hating regime that Iranian-toady Arabs like Assad are now praising for its genocide against the Jews? Like most Holocaust deniers, Assad is tied up in the contradictions that come with denying reality. But no one will be surprised that a mass murderer like Assad, the son of another mass murderer, wants to shift attention away from his own crimes by going full conspiracy-theory nutter. — Ed]