Sudan and Cuba join Ahmadinejad in teaching human rights (gasp!)

I reckon the Durban II ‘anti’ racism conference must have been a gasp-fest.

Gasp one – Ahmadinejad’s old-fashioned Jew-hating diatribe

Gasp two –Cuba claimed that “all Cubans, men and women, with no exception enjoy the same rights without discrimination of any kind.” As Corner points out, this may even be true, considering that they enjoy very few rights at all.

Gasp three – Sudan claimed that they reject all forms of racism and discrimination – perhaps they exclude genocide from ‘forms of racism and discrimination’?

Ahmadinejad: an old-fashioned Jew hater

Yesterday was  Yom Ha Shoah, the day of commemoration and remembrance of the victims of the Nazi holocaust.  It was also the first day of the UN anti-racism conference that has been boycotted by Australia, among other nations. See Same old demonization

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an address that implied that  the genocide was either a half-truth or a complete lie:

“Following World War Two, they (the Jews) resorted to making an entire nation (Palestine) homeless on the pretext of Jewish suffering”. In quotes: Ahmadinejad speech

His virulent anti-Israel statements and comments casting doubt on the Holocaust have prompted fears that his speech could overshadow the primary aim of the conference, to take stock of racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance around the world.

The Middle East Quarterly has an excellent article: Deciphering Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Revisionism demonstrating that this anti-Semitism is an old hatred, not just something engendered by the creation of the state of Israel.

The rights groups say religious discrimination is widespread in Iran, notably affecting Baha’is, Christians, Jews, Sufis, Sunni Muslims, and other minorities, through arbitrary arrests, intimidation and harassment. Rights groups challenge Iran leader at racism meet

At least Andrew Bolt is speaking out against this disgrace. He quotes this disappointing editorial from the Sydney Morning Herald bemoaning Australia’s decision not to attend:

“Much of the campaign by Israel and Jewish diaspora groups against the Durban Review has been jumping at the shadows of what might happen”.

This is a conundrum of my life – how come I can’t stand Andrew Bolt, but he is always there when it is necessary to speak out against anti-Semitism?

Can the left please separate the Palestinian problem from old-fashioned, brutal Jew hatred?