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The United Nations World Conference against Racism, dubbed Durban II, is heading toward another debacle. The draft declaration for the April 2009 conference on racism, published by the United Nations at its recent preparatory session in Geneva, revives the hateful rhetoric of the 2001 Tehran Declaration by accusing Israel of committing "genocide", "crimes gainst humanity", and "a new kind of apartheid".
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The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressed the General
Assembly of the United Nations today, invoking classic anti-Semitic
imagery and blaming much of the world’s problems on the United States
and Israel. Rabbi Marvin Hier, Founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center who watched the speech said:
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said today's speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the United Nations General Assembly "put his anti-Semitism on full display" and shows the true threat that the Iranian regime poses to the West.
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"Even if I were to ignore the Iranian regime's support for
terrorism and genocidal intentions towards Israel, where I live, I'm
afraid that I cannot, in good conscience, offer any advice or
assistance to a TV station that knowingly promotes Holocaust denial as
well as giving a platform to known neo-Nazis such as "Lady" Renouf.", retorted Simon Plosker, HonestReporting's Managing Editor.
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 Over the past several years, Iranian leaders--most prominently, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--have made numerous statements calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. Scholars continue to soft-pedal the Iranian President’s words, and excuse these statements through reinterpretation and questionable mitigation. Michael Axworthy, who served as the Head of the Iran Section of
Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, notes that when the slogan
“Israel must be wiped off the map” appeared “draped over missiles in
military parades, that meaning was pretty clear.”
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Despite its numerous calls for Israel's destruction, and repeated
denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations
for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World
Conference against Racism. "Iran is now poised to wrap itself in a UN flag as a lead agent of the
next global conference against racism, Durban II," she added, referring
to the 2001 UN conference on racism held in Durban, South Africa, which
saw unprecedented levels of anti-Zionist rhetoric and calls for
Israel's destruction.
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 Delegates at the 76th INTERPOL General Assembly have upheld the unanimous decision made by the organization’s Executive Committee to publish six out of nine Red Notices requested in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires. The General Assembly, INTERPOL’s supreme governing body, voted in favour of publishing the notices requested by the Argentinean National Central Bureau (NCB) for the following six individuals; Imad Fayez Moughnieh, Ali Fallahijan, Mohsen Rabbani, Ahmad Reza Asghari, Ahmad Vahidi and Mohsen Rezai.
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 The Russian version of Palestine-info carries a large number of anti-Semitic (and anti-Western) cartoons which do not appear on the portal's other language sites. The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center attributes this to Hamas' propaganda policy which calculates that Russian-speaking target audiences are ripe for anti-Semitic and anti-Western propaganda. It also stems from the expectation that such cartoons can promote the absorption and assimilation of other Hamas' messages of radical Islam, support for terrorism, hostility toward the United States.
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 On December 11 and 12, 2006, the Iranian regime hosted a conference dedicated to Holocaust denial, called the “International Conference on Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision.” Its intention was to give an international dimension to the false claim that the Holocaust of the Jewish people during the Second World War did not occur, or, at least, to minimize its magnitude. The overall objective was to deny international legitimacy for the existence of the State of Israel.
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