Bolton to bring genocide case against Ahmadinejad

If only there were a few more John Boltons in the US administration to replace him after his departure (Senator Santorum ?). You can read the full story about his efforts to bring a genocide case against the Iranian president for his repeated calls to wipe out Israel on The Guardian's website.

Excerpts below:

The outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is backing a call for the president of Iran to be charged with inciting genocide because of his speeches advocating the destruction of the state of Israel.

...The call for legal action came as Mr Ahmadinejad repeated his onslaught against Israel at an international gathering of holocaust deniers in Tehran. The president, who has dismissed the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis as a myth told up to 70 visiting speakers that the Israeli state would soon be wiped out.

Is Norman Finkelstein in Tehran?

Incidentally, did any news agency report of Jews taking to the streets and setting Iranian embassies around the world ablaze or did anyone report Jewish Rabbi issuing fatwas to behead Ahmadinejad? Did any Jew blow himself/herself up over the anti-holocaust conference?


Samira provides us with a wrap up of genocide-inciting conference: New captions in Persian on other pictures of corpses described them as victims of a typhus epidemic in Europe, not of the Nazi death camps.

Bendikt Frings, 48, a psychologist from Germany, said he believed that Mr. Ahmadinejad was “an honest, direct man.” He said he had come to the conference to thank the president for what he had initiated. Esteemed guests of the republic included... Representing the United States was the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, whose prepared remarks, issued by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said "the gas chambers in which millions perished actually did not exist." Reuters is characterizing David Duke as an "academic".















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The event was an embarrassment to most Iranians, but it was not organized for them. The conference was sponsored by the Iranian foreign ministry, and was openly aimed at undermining Israel and the legitimacy of the Jewish state. In essence, the conference was an Iranian information operation, and its participants mere tools of the theocracy. The mendacityty and hypocrisy of this twisted regime is limitless and appalling and noone seems to have the backbone to stand up to these psychopaths. This Holocaust denial is definitely criminal and sponsors of this charade should all be charged and brought to justice.

An Iranian Jew expresses her disgust:

We are indestructible
Jewish Irani (An Iranian Jew)
December 13, 2006

Ahmaghinejad and his hateful clan have opened a 2-day so-called conference on Holocaust denial, in Tehran. Of course, they are selling it as an academic conference to some 67 foreign researchers (read anti-Semites) from 30 countries.
In the name of the six million who were perished Al Kidush Ha-shem; sanctifying the Almighty's name, I tell you Mr. Ahmaghinejad that there have been many others before you who tried to hurt the Jewish people, but they themselves were wiped off the map. Take your ancient countryman for example Mr. Haman who like you had such sinister dreams. What happened to him? He was hanged on the very same gallows that he built to kill Mordechai the Jew. Haman's children were also destroyed, so were their Nazi reincarnations many years later. If you don't believe me, you and the 67 foreign researchers need to read this book, which is especially written for intellectuals such as yourselves.
You do not recognize that although you and your ancestors may have abused, tortured and killed many individual Jews, or degraded them by calling them Johoud and Najis, and inflicted and forced them to convert (e.g., in Mashad), the Jewish people as a whole are indestructible and their Torah is immutable.
The survival of the Jewish people may be a matter of academic research in some circles, but the predictions of our prophets and the declarations of our Holy Torah are absolutely clear; among them "... despite all this, while they will be in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them nor will I reject them to obliterate them, to annul My Covenant with them -- for I am the Lord, their God" (Leviticus 26:44; Megillah 11a).
I could continue, but I am already too disgusted by you