Zionist Conspiracy

1. Tel Aviv University's far-leftist professor Carlo Strenger,
psychology, trivializes the Holocaust and rewrites history:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1036468.html in
"Why Barack Obama's win is 'good' for the Jews"
By Carlo Strenger

'We Jews demand of the world never to forget that 6 million of us were
killed in the Holocaust. We would do well not to forget that some 6
million black Africans died during the long history of the slave trade,
one of the most shameful chapters in the history of humanity.... Obama's
election is a triumph of universalism over chauvinism."

2. Defining Jew-Hatred Down
The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N
by Matthias K.ntzel
The Weekly Standard
November 17, 2008
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/788glfwm.asp
It is a topsy-turvy world: At the United Nations--an organization born out
of the struggle against Nazi Germany and intended to embody the lessons of
the Holocaust--a head of state openly spouts anti-Semitic propaganda in an
address before the General Assembly. Granted, he takes the trouble to
denounce "Zionists" and avoid the word "Jew," but this dodge is
transparent to any student of the Nazis. His speech is greeted with
acclaim, and neither the U.N. secretary general nor any Western head of
government bothers to object. The media are mostly silent.
It happened on September 23, and the speaker was Iranian president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. A familiar figure at the U.N., Ahmadinejad has a history of
using his turn at the rostrum to sermonize about his yearning for the
return of the Shia messiah. This time, he went further, drawing
inspiration also from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Zionists, he told the assembly, are the eternal enemy of "the dignity,
integrity and rights of the American and European people" (this is the
English translation of his remarks on the U.N. website). Although they are
few in number, the Zionists "have been dominating an important portion of
the financial and monetary centers as well as the political
decision-making centers of some European countries and the United States
in a deceitful, complex and furtive manner."
Indeed, so influential are the Zionists around the world that even "some
presidential or premier nominees in some big countries have to visit these
people, take part in their gatherings, swear allegiance and commitment to
their interests in order to attain financial or media support." In
particular, even "the great people of America and various nations of
Europe" are caught in the clutches of Jewish power: They "need to obey the
demands and wishes of a small number of acquisitive and invasive people.
These nations are spending their dignity and resources on the crimes and
occupations and the threats of the Zionist network against their will."
Yet liberation is near. "Today," according to Ahmadinejad, "the Zionist
regime is on a definite slope to collapse. There is no way for it to get
out of the cesspool created by itself and its supporters."
For Ahmadinejad, of course, such talk is nothing new. Addressing the
international Holocaust deniers' conference in Tehran in December 2006, he
declared (in a speech translated by the Middle East Media Research
Institute, MEMRI) that "the Zionist regime will be wiped out, and humanity
will be liberated"--freed, that is, from the "acquisitive and invasive"
minority he "outed" in New York as the real power behind Western
governments. The sentiment is not so far from that expressed in a Nazi
directive of 1943: "This war will end with anti-Semitic world revolution
and with the extermination of Jewry throughout the world, both of which
are the precondition for an enduring peace." Just as Hitler's utopia, his
"German peace," required the extermination of the Jews, so the Iranian
leadership's "Islamic peace" is conditioned on the elimination of Israel.
Ahmadinejad's performance elicited applause from his audience and a warm
embrace from the president of the General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto
Brockmann, a 75-year-old Catholic priest and holder of the Lenin Prize of
the former Soviet Union. D'Escoto is a close friend of Nicaraguan
president Daniel Ortega, in whose government he served as foreign minister
from 1979 to 1990. This is the same Ortega who, four weeks after the
Tehran Holocaust deniers' conference, joined President Hugo Ch.vez of
Venezuela in welcoming Ahmadinejad to Latin America as a "a president
willing to join with the Nicaraguan people in the great battle against
poverty."
Equally noteworthy was the lack of reaction to Ahmadinejad's U.N.
performance in Western capitals--with three exceptions. The German and
French foreign ministers criticized Ahmadinejad's "blatant anti-Semitism,"
and Barack Obama expressed disappointment that the Iranian president had
been given "a platform to air his hateful and anti-Semitic views."
Otherwise Ahmadinejad's misuse of the U.N. to spread anti-Semitic
propaganda didn't even register as a provocation.
On September 23, the very day of his speech, Ahmadinejad was Larry King's
guest on CNN. King offered the Iranian president an hour-long opportunity
to hold forth as he pleased.
The next day, in an article for Salon, the Iran specialist Juan Cole of
the University of Michigan took Obama to task for his comments on
Ahmadinejad. Cole quoted a single sentence from the U.N. speech--one in
which Ahmadinejad criticized the United States--while ignoring the
anti-Semitic passages. "Larry King got at the true Ahmadinejad," Cole
insisted, whereas Obama "fell into the trap of declining to make a
distinction between anti-Zionist views and anti-Semitic ones."
Then on September 25, Ahmadinejad visited the New York Times. In the
interview published the next day, he rehearsed his anti-Semitic notions
without protest from interviewer Neil MacFarquhar. "Zionism," Ahmadinejad
explained, "is the root cause of insecurity and wars............What
commitment forces the U.S. government to victimize itself in support of a
regime that is basically a criminal one?"
This was in striking contrast to the Times's outrage in 2003 when Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia delivered an anti-Semitic speech.
Back then the Times wrote:
It is hard to know what is more alarming--a toxic statement of hatred of
Jews by the Malaysian prime minister at an Islamic summit meeting this
week or the unanimous applause it engendered from the kings, presidents
and emirs in the audience.
Not only that, but the Times concluded its editorial with a sharp rebuke
to the European Union:
The European Union was asked to include a condemnation of Mr. Mahathir's
speech in its statement yesterday ending its own summit meeting. It chose
not to, adding a worry that anti-Semitism displays are being met with
inexcusable nonchalance.
The Times is doing now what it so recently held to be "inexcusable."
Sixty-three years after Auschwitz, then, has anti-Semitism entered
"acceptable" discourse? Or is the New York Times actually fooled by a
rhetorical trick? Where Mahathir was crude enough to denounce the
machinations of "the Jews," Ahmadinejad attacks only "the Zionists." He
says, "Two thousand Zionists want to rule the world." He says "the
Zionists" have for 60 years blackmailed "all Western governments." He
says, "The Zionists have imposed themselves on a substantial portion of
the banking, financial, cultural and media sectors." Perhaps this is why
he is hailed as an anti-imperialist star.
But the Iranian president uses the term "Zionist" in precisely the way
Hitler used the term "Jew": as the embodiment of evil. Even if the Iranian
regime tolerates the presence of a Jewish community in Tehran, whoever
holds Jews responsible for all the ills of the world--whether calling them
"Judases" or "Zionists"--is propagating a potentially genocidal creed.
In fact, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism have gone hand in hand for over 80
years, not only in the annals of Nazism but also in the intellectual
foundations of the Iranian revolution.
In 1921, the future Nazi ideology chief Alfred Rosenberg published a book
entitled Zionism, Enemy of the State. In 1925, Hitler likewise attacked
Zionism in Mein Kampf, warning that "a Jewish state in Palestine" would
only serve as an "organization centre for their international
world-swindling, .........a place of refuge for convicted scoundrels and a
university for up-and-coming swindlers." Or does this reading of Hitler
fall into Juan Cole's "trap of declining to make a distinction between
anti-Zionist views and anti-Semitic ones"?
As a scholar who can read the writings of the Ayatollah Khomeini in the
original, Cole is surely familiar with Khomeini's anti-Semitism. And yet
he passes over this anti-Semitism in silence, just as he passed over the
offensive passages of Ahmadinejad's speech. Up until the revolution of
1979, Khomeini was entirely open in his choice of words. "The Jews..
..wish to establish Jewish domination throughout the world," he wrote in
1970 in his major work, Islamic Government. "Since they are a cunning and
resourceful group of people, I fear that.. ..they may one day achieve
their goal." In September 1977, Khomeini declared: "The Jews have grasped
the world with both hands and are devouring it with an insatiable
appetite, they are devouring America and have now turned their attention
to Iran and still they are not satisfied." The quotation comes from an
official compilation of Khomeini's works published in Tehran in 1995.
Starting in 1979, however, Khomeini substituted the word "Zionist" for
"Jew," while leaving the fundamental anti-Semitism unchanged. The mullahs'
regime disseminated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion throughout the
world. In 2005, an English edition of the Protocols was displayed by
Iranian booksellers at the Frankfurt Book Fair--the very year Khomeini's
fervent admirer Ahmadinejad was elected president.
Today, the anti-Semitism of the Nazis is espoused in Tehran with all the
zeal that fuels religious war. As Ayatollah Nouri-Hamedani, one of the
regime's leading religious authorities, declared in a statement published
in 2005 by the official Iranian news agency, Fars (but quickly pulled from
the Fars website, according to MEMRI): "One should fight the Jews and
vanquish them so that the conditions for the advent of the Hidden Imam are
met." What makes the Iranian nuclear program so dangerous is not the
technology, but the religious and anti-Semitic mission that the regime
would use it to pursue.
"Tehran...........is pregnant with tragedies," Israeli president Shimon
Peres told the U.N. General Assembly the day after Ahmadinejad's
appearance. "The General Assembly and the Security Council bear
responsibility to prevent agonies before they take place." And not only
the General Assembly and the Security Council--but Larry King, the New
York Times, and the rest of us as well.
Matthias K.ntzel, a Hamburg-based political scientist, is the author most
recently of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11.

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404702016&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The Jerusalem Post, November 12, 2008

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by Michael Freund