Just as predicted, on Hitler’s birthday, Hitler’s modern heir used the UN anti-racism conference, nicknamed Durban II, to slam Israel. The good news is there were some awesome protesters, who did exactly the right thing:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a “pretext” for aggression against Palestinians, prompting European diplomats to walk out Monday from a speech disrupted by jeering protesters in rainbow wigs tossing red clown noses at the hardline leader.
A U.N. racism conference on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day disintegrated into chaos moments after Ahmadinejad became the first government official to take the floor. Two protesters in wigs tossed the noses at Ahmadinejad as he recited a Muslim prayer to begin his speech.
A Jewish student group from France later took credit for causing the disturbance, saying members were trying to convey “the masquerade that this conference represents.”
I’ll have the full text later. Here’s a taste from the AP. I’m sure there will be much, much worse that they didn’t quote.
Ahmadinejad restarted his talk and delivered a speech that lasted more than a half-hour, saying the United States and Europe had helped establish Israel after World War II at the expense of Palestinians.
“They resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering,” he said.
Once again, the UN allows—no, encourages—evil under its auspices.
He blamed the Iraq War on Zionists in the Bush Administration who hoped to profit from arms sales. Hard to get more classically anti-Semitic than that. I was happy to see the protesters and surprised to see the well orchestrated walk out by a decent list of representatives.
I only wish that the clowns would have had more success in getting to him.