ANC MP, Farida Mahomed, has been gaining her share of attention for the comments she made at a recent Iranian-sponsored conference in which a Jewish Seminar delegate posed a question to her on South Africa's role in global democratic efforts and the need to discard Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust.

Mahomed validated the The Protocols of The Elders Of Zion as a legitimate source on the subject of Jews. And then posed the following question to Jewish delegate Claudia Braude:

Are the protocols still relevant to you in today’s time? How do we apply this balanced approach to reconciliation when we read them and they are totally the opposite?

Asked in an interview about the Protocols' cred (since it' a well-known that they were largely a vehicle for Nazi propaganda aimed at anti-semitism), Mahomed claimed that she was "unaware" that they were a "hoax." She also said re: The Holocaust:

I don’t want to comment on something that I haven’t done research on. I wouldn’t want to be influenced by any scholar

In the words of my Israeli boyfriend, "Oof!"