SPME: SPME Petitions - A Petition To The United Nations and Governments of Good Will to Institute Sanctions Against Iran Following Genocidal Calls Against Israel At Iran's Holocaust Denying Conference

A Petition To The United Nations and Governments of Good Will to Institute Sanctions Against Iran Following Genocidal Calls Against Israel At Iran's Holocaust Denying Conference

To: Scholars, Students and Citizens of Good Will

We, the undersigned, support Scholars for Peace in the Middle East's call for the United Nations and governments of good will, to begin instituting sanctions against Iran for its shameless and dangerous conference on Holocaust denial, which concluded in Iran's President Ahmadinejad's genocidal call for Israel to be "wiped out."

We further protest Iran's growing tactics of strategic aggressiveness and destabilization towards the state of Israel and other countries in the region. Just as Germany was an aggressive and destabilizing influence in Europe in the first part of the 20th century, so too, Iran now is using similar techniques which, like Nazi Germany, call for genocidal solutions. We believe that Iran's historical revisionism through Holocaust denial and provocations to "wipe out" Israel serve no useful purpose in the pursuit for peace in the Middle East.

The shame of the Iranian government-sanctioned conference is that it was noting but an ingathering of extremist hate mongers ranging from David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan to Ahmadinejad, himself, who has been calling for the elimination and wiping out of Israel consistently over the last few years to sanctify the implementation of his own "Final Solution." This was not an exercise either in scholarship or free speech. It was a pure propaganda gathering to commence moblizing world opinion against the existence the state of Israel.

We support Scholars for Peace in the Middle East's position that reputable impartial scholars over the last 60 years have taught us that the Holocaust was perhaps the most well-documented series of war crimes against humanity ever recorded in history. The incriminating facts were not recorded so much by historians and revisionists, but by the perpetrators themselves, to record their treachery for historical posterity thinking they would ultimately win. The strategy was to dehumanize and delegitimize religious and ethnic groups of people and record their extermination as a proud victory for their Nazi crusade.

Now begins the continuation of that tactic in Iran, where President Ahmadinejad is unfolding his strategy to deny and dehumanize the victims of the Holocaust and call for their descendants' extermination and the wiping out of their country which was given to them by the UN to prevent the atrocities in the future.

No one stood up to Hitler and no one appears to be standing up to Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad suggested that the Soviet Union no longer exists because it collapsed from its own treachery. But, so too, did Nazi Germany when the world finally stood up to it and, so too, will Ahmadinejad and his regime collapse when and if the world will stand up to him. If not, the world will never learn from the lessons of the Holocaust.

If no one will stop Ahmadinejad, no one can blame Israel for exercising the right and obligation it has to defend itself and solicit all the support it can get in doing so. Ahmadinejad has made his intention crystal clear since his rise to power. He must be stopped and the international community must insure that the atrocities being predicted by him must be stopped by all diplomatic, economic and other ways to prevent further tragedies in the region.

The world must stand up to Iran and say, "Never Again."

Sincerely,

The Undersigned