Pejman Yousefzadeh

I am only partially kidding:

An aide to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi claims that the Holocaust was a hoax.

Fathi Shihab Eddim, Morsi’s senior aide, made the comments on Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27.

“The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented,” Eddim said, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Eddim, who is reportedly responsible for appointing editors for the country’s state-run newspapers, asserted that 6 million Jews actually moved to the United States during World War II.

“U.S. intelligence agencies in cooperation with their counterparts in allied nations during World War II created it to destroy the image of their opponents in Germany, and to justify war and massive destruction against military and civilian facilities of the Axis powers, and especially to hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic bomb,” Eddim said, according to the Telegraphic Agency.

Morsi has also been under fire for comments he made about Jews in 2010, saying that they are the “descendants of apes and pigs.”

As anyone who has been paying attention to the news can tell you, riots have erupted anew in Egypt over the Morsi government’s dictatorial tendencies. It is worth noting that the government’s derangement regarding issues of political liberty is more than matched by its derangement regarding settled historical issues in general and its attitude towards Jews in particular. Thus, this blog post.

Incidentally, maybe the next time the Obama administration wishes to make a comment regarding Egypt, it could admit what the rest of us already know; that the revolution and the particular iteration of the Arab Spring in the country have gone completely off the rails.