Bucharest – October 25, 2004 – Only two weeks after the first commemoration of the Holocaust Day in Romania, Professor Ion Coja was
invited by the National TV station to appear on the "talkshock" show on Oct 25th, at 16:00, so that he could publicly deny the Romanian
Holocaust inflicted on the Romanian Jewish Community in 1940-1942.
Professor Ion Coja is a professor, an educator teaching at the Bucharest University. Professor Ion Coja is not only in the forefront
of the negation of the Romanian Holocaust, he is also leads the Foundation for Combating the anti-Romanian movement.
For almost 60 minutes Professor Coja was given the opportunity to "explain" to the viewers why the Holocaust of the Romanian Jewry is something that never happened.
Openly and shamelessly, Prof. Coja accused the WW II Romanian Jews of undermining the Romanian state by serving the KGB and communist interests at that time.
"Not because they were Jews were they killed by the Romanian army, but because they committed reprehensible acts against the
state…Almost 100% of the Jews killed died because they committed acts against the state" Prof. Coja vehemently explained to the viewers.
He continued "Until 1990 no one talked about this Holocaust. After 1990, the RED RABBI, Rabbi Meir Rozen came up with this story.
….It is true that there were some events, which were or not pogroms, during which few hundreds died….. Some are claiming that thousands were killed but it is more likely that only hundreds died….. but in Romania there was no genocide…."
"The Holocaust is a shameful business and the Holocaust in Romania is the same… The Romanian Jews squeezed money out of the Jews in West who were asked to send money in order to save the Jews from Transnistria…. The Romanian intellectuals are terrorized and afraid to speak against the Holocaust in Romania." – Prof Ion Coja stated, referring to the Jews exterminated under the
Romanian army authority in Transnistria.
Jewish personalities involved in helping Romania to come to an honorable and honest conclusion with this dark chapter of its history, such as Professor Elie Wiesel, Dr. Radu Ioanid, Dr. Lia Benjamin, Matatias Carp et al, were named by Prof. Coja as "Jews who even the Jews do not give much money for" (in Romanian – "evrei pe care chiar evreii nu dau multe parale"). Those Jews and Romanians who act for the recognition of the Romanian Holocaust were defined by Prof Coja as scoundrels (in Roma­nian – "derbedei")
"I am happy to point out that in the speeches given by President Iliescu and by Prime Minister Nastase in in the Commemoration day of the Holocaust in Romania, the Holocaust in Romania was not mentioned at all" was the closing statement of this shameful and appalling presentation con­ducted by Prof Coja on the National TV station, with the assistance of a sympathetic moderator.
We would like to mention that 24 hours before the show was broadcast, a member of the Wiesel commission asked the National
Audio-Visual Authority (CNA) to take the necessary measures in order to block any televised broadcast of Romanian Holocaust denial to the
public. Unfortunately the CNA ignored this appeal and Romanian public opinion was offered another "educative" lesson, broadcast on National
TV, on how the Jews are trying to make the Romanian nation pay billions for something that it is not guilty of.
We believe that it is in the interests of Romania that the Romanian authorities, the same authorities which two weeks ago participated at the commemorations of the Holocaust in Romania, enforce the letter and the spirit of the Governmental Emergency Ordinance 31/2002 against those who not only preach anti-Semitism but who also offend the memory of the hundreds of thousands of Romanian Jewish victims by denying their existence and their suffering.

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