UPDATE IRAN: NEW BOOK DENYING THE HOLOCAUST RELEASED

Act to Ensure Iran is Barred from UN Security Council Membership

Days after Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered his anti-Semitic tirade to the UN General Assembly to cheers and ovation (pictured left with General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann), Islamist students unveiled a new book mocking the Holocaust. In the presence of Iran's Education Minister, tens of thousands chanted "Death to Israel" at the annual 'Jerusalem Day' gathering in Tehran (pictured bottom left).

The Center is therefore redoubling its campaign to bar Iran from becoming a non-permanent member of the Security Council. Last week, letters were hand-delivered to all five permanent members of the UN Security Council, pictured left, urging them to publicly condemn Ahmadinejad's anti-Semitic invective and to bar Tehran from another coveted diplomatic appointment.

The new book, "Holocaust" includes anti-Semitic stereotypes and revisionist arguments, casting doubt that the massacre of Jews took place and mocking Holocaust survivors who claimed reparations after World War II. It features dozens of 'commentary’ and cartoons including:

 • bearded Jews shown leaving and re-entering a gas chamber with a number counter reading 5,999,999

• the cover featuring a Jew with a crooked nose dressed in traditional garb drawing outlines of dead bodies on the ground

• a question-and-answer reading: "How did the Germans emit gas into chambers while there were no holes on the ceiling?" Answer: "Shut up, you criminal anti-Semite. How dare you ask
this question?"

• a patient draped in an Israeli flag on life support breathing Zyklon-B, which was used to kill Jews in the gas chambers

• Jews entering an oven in a concentration camp and leaving the other side as gun-toting "terrorists"

Now more than ever, we need to stand together. If you are not one of the over 15,000 who have already signed the Center’s petition to the UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon, please sign it today. If you have, please forward our call to action to your family and friends.

Thank you for your continued vigilance and action.