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On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
I remember when I was in Israel in April 2009 as Governor of Virginia. There was a U.N.--I believe it was UNESCO--meeting in Geneva that one of the invited keynote speakers was Ahmedinejad, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran, and to have a Holocaust denier speaking to an international organization of that kind--and the sad coincidence of timing, it was during Yom Hashoah in Israel, and it just seemed so odd.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine reflects on a troubling U.N. event featuring a Holocaust denier during a significant Jewish observance.

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