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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SPME reaffirms its call for an indictment of the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his repeated statements urging the destruction of Israel. Such statements are direct and public incitement to genocide, which are prohibited by the Genocide Convention and is defined by the International Criminal Code as a crime against humanity.The evidence for the case for indictment includes his repeated and openly inflammatory use of hate language and pseudo-medical metaphors (“Israel is vermin, ….a filthy corpse,… a cancer”) and incitement to genocide (“wipe Israel off the map”), his public denial of the Holocaust (a “myth” created by Europeans to justify the creation of a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world”), and support for Hezbollah and Hamas, terror organizations committed to Israel’s destruction.These actions threaten international peace and security, in violation of Article 99 of the UN Charter.
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The report before us cites Iran for three anti-Semitic acts: Convening an international conference "questioning the truth of the extermination of the European Jews by Nazi Germany"; Organizing an earlier Holocaust denial cartoon contest; and President Ahmadinejad's repeated calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map.
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Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, accused Iran of trying to "discredit" al-Qaeda by spreading a conspiracy theory, widely held in the Middle East, that Israel—and not al-Qaeda—was behind the attacks on America in September 2001. Mr Zawahiri had previously accused Shia Iran of seeking to spread its influence in the Middle East at the expense of the Sunnis. Sourced from the Economist.
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Over the past year or so a number of official and unofficial public statements have been made in Iran denying the genocide of Jews during the Second World War. The culmination of this trend was the widely publicized, so called "International Holocaust Conference", held in Tehran in December 2006. Given the serious moral and practical implications of this trend, we, a group of Iranian academics, intellectuals, writers and artists, find it imperative to take a public stance on this issue.
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 The United Nations General Assembly today condemned without reservation
any denial of the Holocaust, with only Iran publicly disassociating
itself from the consensus resolution which was immediately hailed by
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Assembly, noting that the resolution was adopted on the eve of the
UN-designated annual International Day of Commemoration for Holocaust
victims, who also included not only Jews but also Roma, Sinti,
homosexuals and other groups, called on all its 192 Member States
“unreservedly to reject any denial of the Holocaust as a historical
event, either in full or in part, or any activities to this end.”
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today strongly
denounced the conference on the Holocaust being held in Tehran on
December 11 and 12, 2006. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council Chairman Fred
S. Zeidman stated, “This conference deserves worldwide condemnation. It
will serve as nothing more than an international platform for Holocaust
denial, which is just another form of antisemitism. The Holocaust is the most well-documented crime in human
history. The overwhelming majority of the material
evidence comes from the official records of the perpetrators themselves
who have never denied their responsibility for their crime.”
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A coalition of leading human rights groups from around the world today called on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to rebuke Iran for its campaign of Holocaust denial, on the day the UN marks the genocide of Europe’s Jews with ceremonies in New York and Geneva.
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US representative Keith Ellison today denounced the international Holocaust denial campaign of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad. Representative Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota and the first Muslim Member of the United States Congress, issued his statement in the U.S. Capitol.
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We the undersigned Iranians; Notwithstanding our diverse
views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Considering that the Nazis' coldly
planned "Final Solution" and their ensuing campaign of genocide
against Jews and other minorities during World War II constitute undeniable
historical facts; Strongly condemn the Holocaust Conference sponsored by the
government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Tehran and its attempt to falsify
history.
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AMIA, together with religious leaders and Holocaust survivors, repudiated the Iranian statement that questioned the existence of the Jewish Holocaust during WWII. They also requested the Argentine society at large, and especially its leaders, to join them in their complaint.
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It was one year ago that the National Council of Churches USA condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claim that the Holocaust was "a myth." Iran's recent hosting of a meeting of Holocaust deniers is "regrettable, unfortunate and repugnant," said Dr. Antonios Kireopoulos, NCC's associate general secretary for international affairs and peace.
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 The German government today condemned a planned Iranian conference on the Holocaust and summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires to the Foreign Ministry, calling attempts to question the Nazis’ murder of Jews “shocking and unacceptable”. The conference, scheduled for December 10-11, was organised by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called the systematic killing of some six million Jews a “myth” and “exaggerated”.
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 The United States condemns the conference on the Holocaust convoked by the Iranian regime on Monday in Tehran. While people around the world mark International Human Rights Week and renew the solemn pledges of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which was drafted in the wake of the atrocities of World War II, the Iranian regime perversely seeks to call the historical fact of those atrocities into question and provide a platform for hatred.
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The evidence of this crime, and the horrible magnitude of this
killing, is irrefutable. From sources as varied as Nazi war records,
film documentation, and most importantly, testimony of survivors and
witnesses, we know that the mass murder of European Jews was, indeed,
the single greatest crime of genocide in the 20th century. Yet the world now witnesses yet another wave of historical
revisionism and Holocaust denial, this time emerging not from European
anti-Semites, but from none other than the president of Iran.
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 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan came out strongly today against any effort to question or deny the Holocaust after reports that Iran would host a conference next week to discuss the scale and nature of the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews – already dismissed as a myth by its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “The Secretary-General personally believes that any attempt to cast doubt on the reality of this unique and undeniable horror must be firmly resisted by all people of goodwill and of whatever faith,” Mr. Annan spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told the daily UN news briefing.
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 European Union leaders condemned Saturday Iran's president for denying the Holocaust, and warned Tehran the chance of a diplomatic solution on its disputed nuclear program would not last forever. "These comments are wholly unacceptable and have no place in civilized political debate," the 25 EU heads of state and government said, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that the Nazi mass extermination of Jews was a myth.
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Whereas the sole purpose of this conference is to incite
hatred against the Jewish people by claiming that the Holocaust is a ‘hoax’,
attempting to portray the Jewish people as greedy in seeking ‘false’
reparations and depicting support for Israel
as illegitimate. Be it therefore
resolved that B’nai Brith Canada
intensify its efforts to counter Iranian Holocaust denial, an example of modern
day antisemitism, through Holocaust remembrance programs and educational
outreach. Be it further resolved that
B’nai Brith remain steadfast in its course to shine a spotlight on human rights
abusers such as Iran
and to urge Canada
to play a leading role in encouraging the international community to take up
this important challenge.
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 The Government of Israel strongly condemns the shameless initiative taken by the Iranian Government to convene an international conference for the denial of the Holocaust, the so-called "International Conference Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision."
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