By Beryl Wajsman
Friday, December 16, 2005Dear Colleagues, In the face of pure evil, words fail. Every person of goodwill is compelled to act if they are not to be judged complicit by their silence. Iranian President Mahmoud ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust and call for the elimination of Israel are almost unprecedented in their debasement and degradation. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on everyone to sign a petition to the President of the United Nations General assembly. On January 27, 2006 the General assembly will hold its first ever Holocaust Commemoration Day. Let them hear our voices now!
Below is the message from the Wiesenthal Center and the URL's for the petition site. Please take a moment and act.
Beryl P. Wajsman
IRaN'S LEaDER DENIES HOLOCaUST WHILE THREaTENING NEW GENOCIDE
SIGN URGENT PETITON TO PRESIDENT OF UN GENERaL aSSEMBLY
Not since adolf Hitler, has the head of a sovereign state used his position so openly to threaten the Jewish people with genocide. Today, for the first time, Iranian President, Mahmoud ahmadinejad, pictured below, publicly denied the Holocaust by calling it a "myth" used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.
While Germany and other governments have protested this outrage, it is up to the United Nations to take the lead in insuring that the Iranian regime's genocidal hate has specific consequences.
Please join the Simon Wiesenthal Center in urging Dr. Jan Eliasson, President of the United Nations General assembly, to convene the 191 member states to censure Iran and declare its President persona non grata.
Next month, the UN General assembly holds its first-ever official the Holocaust Commemoration Day on January 27. ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust not only slanders the memory of six million Jews but makes a mockery of the UN's Holocaust commemoration.
Until now, Holocaust denial has been the domain of the lunatic fringe. Now, the leader of a repressive regime that is on the verge of becoming a nuclear power, has mobilized the full power of his state's apparatus not only to deny history's greatest crime, but to demand that Israel be removed from the Middle East or be confronted with his threat, that the Jewish state be "wiped off the face of the map."
Please act now by going to the following URL to petition Dr. Jan Eliasson, President of the United Nations General assembly.
Use the following URL to forward this urgent action appeal to your like-minded friends and family.
By Beryl Wajsman