Yet again Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has used blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric to attack Israel by stating the Holocaust was "a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim". [BBC News]
How is such behaviour helping the Palestinian cause? To resort to lies and racism to fight for a cause discredits any valid statements you may make.
Israel should be criticised for it's illegal occupation and war crimes in the occupied territories, based on evidence and argument. Such abhorent behaviour is unacceptable and the sooner Ahmadinejad is gone the better.
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I guess such worldviews acquire currency because of the inability to gain (and taboo against gaining) political traction from drawing parallels between the contemporary experience of Palestinians / Afghanis / Iraqis and the historical Jewish experience. Reactionaries & revisionists will always flourish where liberalism fails. (IMO)
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