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Rami laughs when he tells about how he then fooled the
mass media, the politicians and the police. We are
sitting in the home of one of Ahmed Rami’s friends, in a
house near to the Bromma church, because he doesn’t want
to show us his office.I told a friend, from Algeria, that I want to see if
Säpo [The Swedish Secret Police] really is informed. I picked up the phone and said to TT
[Tidningarna Telegrambyrå, a Swedish news agency] that I was going to organize an anti-Zionist world conference. And there was a great debate. Säpo started to suspect that the conference would be held in a boat. Others thought that it would be held in the
Stockholm Globe Arena [a well known building in
Stockholm].Israel sent a letter of protest to the
Swedish government to stop the conference. The chief of
Säpo and the prime minister made statements. So much uproar about a joke!The funny thing is that the Algerian guy phoned me up.
He asked why I was pulling his leg. I’m not, I said. But you told me it was only a joke. Yes, but it is only a joke. No, it’s on the TV, radio and the newspapers. It is true, he said.This spring the joke has been news again. One of the parts in the book about the Holocaust deniers that has made the author David Irving sue Deborah
Lipstadt and Penguin books for libel speaks about
Rami’s joke.