Most people (including many Jews) don't really grasp Anti-Semitism and it's existence in "today's world".
We are all in denial of our place in time but we were always the same way. No matter how advanced we are or think we are, the reality is that humans for the most part are still tribal primates with a few isolated civilized communities and some cool toys to brag about.
One of the key figures in the Anti-Semitic Worldwide movement is Iranian President Ahmadenijad, damned be his name, who is the biggest denier of the Holocaust as well as a proponet of a new one, or if you follow his logic, a real one.
Under the desguise of unverified data analysis and pseudo-science, expert racist manipulators of information gathered at Iran's Holocaust forum. One must ask himself, upon 10 seconds of processing this piece of news: why would Iran be so interested in the Jewish Holocaust to the point of hosting such event and having it's President in attendence?
Surely there are many other pressing issues in Iran's population's agenda that would merit similar efforts to hold a conference and bring in experts to discuss ways to improve the lives of citizens in some way.
If Iran's President is a history aficcionado, why didn't he chose to hold a conference on other genocides or holocausts such as the Armenian by the Turks or the Serbian/Bosnians against each other, Hutus vs. Tutsis, Stalin or Pol pot against their own people and the list can go on.
What if he proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that instead of 6 million Jews, only 1.5 million perished in Nazi camps? Would that advance our understanding of history in any way? Would it diminish the atrocity? Would Iranian (or anyone else's) quality of life improve?
I don't want to go on and on to prove a simple point - that there is no point to this conference. There is no logical point to Anti-Semitism. Most importantly, there is no point in ignoring it's existence.
The number of bodies consumed by ovens per hour can change according to historians as may the number of people that could fit in a cargo train per trip. All the speculation and re-calculation will not change the simple fact that mass genocide occured and the figures don't really matter. It happened. It was real. It is real. As a result millions of Jews were displaced from their homes and left without a single penny. Where is their right of return? How different would my parent's life had been if it wasn't for the Holocaust? How different would my life be?
At Eugene's blog, you will get all the evidence you need to believe in the Holocaust. Read his beautiful essay here.
Coincidentally, Jimmy Carter came out with his inflammatory book Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid in the same week as the conference in Iran and in interviews claims not to be anti-semitic or anti-Israel. His only badge of honor is the peace treaty signed between Egypt and Israel during his tenure. See what David Horowitz, Alan Dershowitz have to say about the book