Welcome to the masquerade where gross human rights violators lecture human rights champions.
By Jamie Weinstein
GENEVA – "For months we said that this conference is a circus, this conference is a masquerade," President of the French Union of Jewish Students Raphael Haddad told me at the UN Durban II conference against racism in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday. "When you see that there is someone who is racist with xenophobe, with anti-Semite, with negationist, with homophobe, and he is speaking at a conference against racism, it just means that this conference is a masquerade."
The someone Haddad was referring to was petite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who had just given a bigoted speech attacking Israel as "the most cruel and repressive racist regime." For good measure, Ahmadinejad excoriated the West for the entire world’s problems (both currently and in history) and for propping up that wicked Zionist regime. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t find time during his 40-minute speech to make any comments about his own country’s brutal treatment of gays and people of the Baha’i faith, among others. Read more ...
GENEVA – "For months we said that this conference is a circus, this conference is a masquerade," President of the French Union of Jewish Students Raphael Haddad told me at the UN Durban II conference against racism in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday. "When you see that there is someone who is racist with xenophobe, with anti-Semite, with negationist, with homophobe, and he is speaking at a conference against racism, it just means that this conference is a masquerade."
The someone Haddad was referring to was petite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who had just given a bigoted speech attacking Israel as "the most cruel and repressive racist regime." For good measure, Ahmadinejad excoriated the West for the entire world’s problems (both currently and in history) and for propping up that wicked Zionist regime. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t find time during his 40-minute speech to make any comments about his own country’s brutal treatment of gays and people of the Baha’i faith, among others. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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