Israel, EU condemn Iran's Holocaust conference

Israel's prime minister, German leaders and the European Union's top justice official are among those who condemned Iran on Tuesday for hosting a controversial conference questioning the Nazi genocide of Jews.

'We have learned and memorized the lesson [of the Holocaust]; the weak and defenceless are doomed. Doomed are they who do not believe those who threaten to eradicate them.'-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert

The two-day conference that began Monday in Tehran has brought 67 participants from 30 countries, including the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, a well-known French academic who lost tenure over his anti-Holocaust opinions, several Orthodox Jews and other prominent Holocaust skeptics.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the event "a sick phenomenon" Tuesday as he met with German leaders in Berlin, urging them to sever economic ties with Iran.

During a visit to Berlin's Grunewald train station, where thousands of Jews were shipped to death camps during the Holocaust, Olmert referred to Iran's attempts to deny the events of the Holocaust.