Peres stands accused over denial of ‘meaningless’ Armenian Holocaust

By Robert Fisk in Jerusalem, The Independent, 18 April 2001 One of Israel’s leading scholars of the Jewish Holocaust has angrily compared the country’s Nobel prize-winning Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, to a holocaust denier after an interview in which Mr Peres made the astonishing claim that the Armenians – 1.5 million of whom were slaughtered by Ottoman …