יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה

Klaunovi protiv Ahmadinejada
Tri klauna koji su prekinuli Ahmadinejadov govor na "Konferenciji protiv rasizma" su troje francuskih židovskih studenata, Rafael Haddad, Jonathan Hayoun i Jeremy Cohen, članovi Unije francuskih židovskih studenata (UJF).

In Israel, a group of students from the Amit Kfar Batya High School in Ra'anana held a demonstration Tuesday across from the Swiss Embassy in Tel Aviv to protest the meeting between Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz and Ahmadinejad.

The students transferred a letter to the Swiss president, who on Monday defended his decision to meet Ahmadinejad, saying, "Switzerland is neutral and not part of any alliance."

"Ahmadinejad uses Nazi terminology, which is why it is so scary and perhaps ironic that exactly a day after your distressing meeting with him Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day," the letter read.

The Swiss president's "dinner with the Iranian president," the students said, "shows that Switzerland - under your leadership - has apparently learned nothing from history and you, too, like your forefathers during the Holocaust, ignore the existential threat to us today.

"History repeats itself. Please do not allow that horrible chapter in human history to repeat itself."

Kako Jutarnji obilježava Dan Holokausta
Sandra Milković javlja o obilježavanju dana Holkausta u Izraelu, pod naslovom "Dan holokausta pao na Hitlerov rođendan". Da li je moguće da Jutarnji i Sandra ne znaju da je Hitlerov rođendan bio jučer?
Odnos Jutarnjeg prema Izraelu je vidljiv i po još jednom komentaru, koji se ponosno "vijori" ispod članka:

Neshvatljivo je da se ni cigani ne protjeruju i izbacuju iz svojih zemalja a kamoli ubijaju i istrebljuju. Sto su to Zidovi toliko bili odurni Adolfu dok je 'zivio' pod mostovima u Vieni - pa je odlucio jednog dana 'doci na svoje'. Jeli to odurnost cifuta orthodoxnih, jeli to skrtost, kaputi i smrad koji ispustaju, nosevi kukasti..ili sto vec, sesiri... to je u njegovom umu bilo. No taj je bio heroj svog naroda i spasitelj, danas je zlocinac. Moglo se davno uvidjeti da je bolesnik, ali hej, tko ce danas optuziti KULT LICNOST BARACK OBAMU DA JE POREMECEN - a ne znamo da li je - ali znamo da 'DOBRO PRICA'. Sto bi RUSI TREBALI 'OBILJEZAVATI' KOJIH JE UBIJENO PREKO 27 MILIJUNA????? (od Nijemaca i sila 'zla' Axis Powers). Po tome - danas bi RUSA BILO PREKO 300 MILIJUNA da ne bi Staljina i Hitlera.

Ahmedinejad's Incitement to Hatred at the UN Conference against Racism
(Israel Foreign Ministry Press Release)

The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Durban 2) opened today (Monday, 20 April 2009) in Geneva.
The opening address to the high-level session of the conference was made by the Iranian President, Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
The organizers of the event enabled a Holocaust denier, a ruler who has made a policy of persecuting the minorities in his own country, to open the conference. An address by such an individual stands in stark contradiction to the claims that this conference actually contributes to the struggle against racism. It is both symbolic and sad that this event is taking place on the eve of the Holocaust Memorial Day.

The blatant inconsistency between the declared goals of the conference and the spirit of the deliberations and the wording of the draft documents has not gone unnoticed by leading democracies, who feel a true commitment to the struggle against racism. These countries have decided to boycott the conference, and Israel once again expresses its appreciation to them. Israel also expresses its disappointment over those countries for whom the subject of racism is dear to their hearts, but have nevertheless decided to participate in the conference - even if most of these countries chose to send low level delegations.

The extremist and slanderous speech made by the Iranian President caused a mass, demonstrative walkout of those Western delegates not boycotting the conference, and loud heckling from the visitor’s gallery.

The offensive and inflammatory incitement and humiliating and intolerable appeal to racist hate by the Iranian President, which were expressed during the first hours of the conference, constitute clear proof, for those who still require it, that the conference’s agenda has been taken hostage and diverted from real and necessary racism-related deliberations – to an unabashed tirade against Israel.