He repeatedly called the Holocaust a "myth" that was fabricated just so that Jewish people could create their own state.Hungarian Jewish organizations and the Israeli embassy have condemned a public university for inviting Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to an event this week. The Budapest-based Ludovika University of Public Service invited the politician — who has said Israel is doomed to be “wiped off the map” and that the Holocaust was a “myth” — to an academic meeting. Two Hungarian Jewish congregations, together with a Jewish advocacy group, were the latest to protest the visit of “openly antisemitic” Ahmadinejad in a joint statement Wednesday.
