In December 2015 , in one of his lectures , Mizrahi claimed that it is possible that only one million Jews died in The Holocaust as opposed to the well accepted figure of 6 million , since many of them were not Jewish according to Jewish law which requires a person 's mother to be Jewish . Mizrahi was criticized by academics and Jewish leaders including Efraim Zuroff , director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center , who said that he " made up history to suit an agenda . " He was also criticized by Berel Wein who stated that " It is too damaging a matter to be left unanswered and unrefuted . " Later Mizrahi issued an apology . According to the '' The Times '' , Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has spoken out against the travel plans of this " Jewish hate preacher " ; and the UK Home Office has suggested that the Home Secretary , Amber Rudd , was considering banning Mizrachi should he apply to visit Britain
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Yosef Mizrachi