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Charge Iran With 'Incitement to Genocide'
A group of top academics and political leaders is seeking to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for violating United Nations conventions regarding genocide.
The move comes largely in response to this week’s conference in Tehran of people who deny the Holocaust occurred, during which Ahmadinejad vowed that Israel will "soon be wiped out.”
The academics and political leaders will meet Thursday in New York for a symposium, "Bring Ahmadinejad to Justice for Incitement to Genocide,” sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Attendees will include Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School; Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the U.N.; Canada’s former justice minister, Irwin Cotler; and Meir Rosenne, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
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Gold will present a 68-page report, "Referral of Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the Charge of Incitement to Commit Genocide,” outlining Ahmadinejad’s crimes, according to The Israel Project, a journalists’ newsletter.
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization, said: "Seventy years ago, Hitler repeatedly made his intentions clear but the international community chose to ignore or dismiss his threats.
Avoidance or appeasement only exacerbate the danger posed by tyrants like Ahmadinejad who see such responses as indications of weakness, even capitulation . . .
"Applying the rule of law and international justice to Ahmadinejad will rally the forces of good and hopefully dissuade those who seek to foster death and destructions.”
Dershowitz and Cotler will present a separate set of charges seeking to bring Iran before the International Court of Justice, based on findings that Iranian government officials were responsible for the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires in 1994. The bombing killed 87 people and wounded 200.
Argentinean Special Prosecutors found that the bombing was "conceived, planned and ordered” by high-ranking members of the Iranian government. During this week’s conference in Tehran, "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision,” Ahmadinejad said: "Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.”
Among the featured speakers was David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana state representative.
Duke has been teaching at Ukraine’s Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, which in June sponsored an anti-Semitic conference, "Zionism as the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization.”
In Tehran, he applauded "holocaust revisionism.”
The Bush administration has called the conference "an affront to the entire civilized world.”
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