Haaretz
Shvat 19, 5767
The children of an
Austrian rabbi who attended an Iranian conference that questioned the
Holocaust have been expelled from their school and told no other Jewish
school in Austria will take them, their father said Tuesday.
Moishe
Arye Friedman said he has begun legal proceedings against the school. He
said his four school-age children were told to leave Monday.
A
letter shown by Friedman with the letterhead of the school said one of the
reasons for the expulsions was his outrageous behavior in attending the
Holocaust conference last month.
Friedman was among Jewish
participants who hugged Iranian President Mahhmoud Ahmadinejad, who has
described the Holocaust as a myth and called for Israel to be wiped off
the map.
Friedman is associated with, but not a member of Neturei
Karta, a small, fiercely anti-Zionist sect that opposes the state of
Israel, believing it can only be established by the
Messiah.
Responding to criticism after the trip to Iran, Neturei
Karta said it has never denied the Holocaust or its proportions. They
believe Ahmadinejad has been unfairly vilified and that they should be
praised for persuading him that his anger should be directed at Israel,
not the Jewish people.