TWO NEW ANTISEMITIC IRANIAN ‘DOCUMENTARIES’ SEEK TO VALIDATE IRANIAN PRESIDENT’S CALL TO GENOCIDE AGAINST JEWS

Even as some Iranian diplomats sought to soften the impact of President’s Ahmadinejad’s call to "wipe Israel off the face of the map," Iranian Television unveiled two films that deny the Nazi Holocaust and which validate the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous antisemitic work that has been called a "warrant for genocide against Jews."

Last Thursday night, Iran’s Sahar-1 TV broadcast in Arabic (with some French) Holocaust, an Iranian production with Lebanese Hezbollah-recruited actorsdescribing the Shoah as a fabrication. Gas chambers, it asserts, were built long before WWII to fight the plague and not to exterminate Jews. The basic plot involvesa French-Jewish historian who tries to combat the "Big Lie" of the 6 million and is murdered by Mossad agents who then proceed to hunt down his secretary all the way to Beirut. One of his pupils keeps teaching the "truth."

Meanwhile on the Al-Am station a ‘documentary’ in Persian aired the same night and sought to convince viewers that the long-debunked Protocols of the Elders of Zion accurately describes a real plot by the Jewish people to control the world.

"While some Iranian spin doctors try to convince the world that their President’s threat to annihilate Israel and Zionists is mere rhetoric, in fact, Iranian Television fully mobilized with two sophisticated films to validate Ahmadinejad’s call to genocide," charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "These productions, which would make Nazi leader Goebbels weep tears of joy, took time, money and coordination to be released in conjunction with the Iranian President’s unprecedented attacks. We urge the civilized world to take specific sanctions against a regime run amok with hate," Cooper concluded.

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