Meanwhile, the Embassy of Israel in Hungary reacted to the news, stating his visit to Budapest was an insult to "the memory of the victims". In a statement to Euronews, it said that Ahmadinejad's visit "seriously offends and tramples on the memory of the approximately 600,000 Hungarian Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust". According to the statement, the former Iranian president is "a self-proclaimed Holocaust denier who is directly responsible for the events that ridicule, belittle and question the Holocaust and its victims," a reference to the two-day "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision" conference, held in Tehran in 2006. They also point out that as Iranian president, Ahmadinejad regularly called for the destruction of Israel.
