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“We will not allow Holocaust deniers to carry out another Jewish Holocaust. This is the supreme commitment of the state of Israel, and it is my supreme commitment as prime minister of Israel,” he said in speech in parliament last year.

The son of a prominent,uggs boots, nationalist historian, Netanyahu views the Jewish state as the “shield” against the growing expressions of Holocaust denial in recent years, mainly by Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“This will be a very emotional visit. No Jew can go to such a venue without having the weight of history and memory on his shoulders,” the premier’s spokesman Mark Regev said.

“The state of Israel is the shield. It is the comfort and hope of the Jewish people.”

A ceremony on Wednesday will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camp where some 1.1 Jews perished between June 1940 and January 1945.

“The fight against anti-Semitism is more important than ever because there has been a significant rise in the number of expressions of anti-Semitism since Operation Cast Lead,” he said on Sunday.

The visit was set to be particularly emotionally charged for the hardline premier,ugh boots, whose wife’s father was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi Holocaust in which some six million Jews were murdered.