World's Racist-in-Chief

Good writing by someone at the AJC...

April 20, 2009 – Geneva – AJC, reacting to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's anti-Semitic speech today at the Durban Review Conference, denounced the Iranian leader as the "world's racist-in-chief."

"It's a sad day when the UN gives an advocate of genocide the spotlight at a supposed anti-racism conference – on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, no less," said AJC Executive Director David Harris, who is in Geneva with a large group of AJC activists. "Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for the destruction of another UN member state, Israel, and trampled on the human rights of his own people. He makes a mockery of the struggle against racism."

AJC commended those delegations, including several European countries and Morocco, that walked out of the hall in protest during Ahmadinejad's remarks.

Harris continued, "These nations have sent a message that Holocaust denial and incitement to genocide are unacceptable to the community of civilized nations. We hope they will now consider joining the nine countries that commendably avoided the conference from the start."

Before his departure from Tehran, Ahmadinejad again accused "Zionists" of controlling global financial markets, media, and politics, returning to a familiar theme for the "world's racist-in-chief."

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