Refer Iran to the United Nations

The invaluable One Jerusalem has posted a series of videos from yesterday’s conference in New York to “Bring Ahmadinejad to Justice For Incitement to Genocide.”  The videos are of Ambassador John Bolton, Ambassador Dore Gold, MP Irwin Cotler (Former Canadian Minister of Justice), and Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University. 

Others who participated included Professor Ruth Wedgewood of Johns Hopkins University, Martin Peretz, Editor-in-Chief of The New Republic, and MK Danny Naveh of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.  The New York Sun reported that:

At a gathering sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Mr. Cotler said Mr. Ahmadinejad preaches "state-ordered, state-sanctioned, genocidal anti-Semitism" -- violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide's prohibition on inciting genocide.  The gathering, which brought out about 150 people, was held at the New York Lawyers Association headquarters in Lower Manhattan.

Like the late president of Serbia and Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, and the late Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, Mr. Ahmadinejad deserves to be put on trial, Mr. Cotler said. . . .

The Jerusalem Center has released a 68-page report called "Incitement to Commit Genocide: Indictment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." It states: "Ahmadinejad's declaration that the Holocaust was a ‘fairy tale,' and that his enabling of Hamas and Hizbullah, demonstrate that there is simply no way for his ambitions to be realized without perpetrating a new genocide." The report was written by human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner and six others including two former Israeli ambassadors and a Holocaust survivor and memoirist, Elie Wiesel.

At yesterday's meeting, Mr. Dershowitz announced that he was drafting a legal brief justifying the use of preemptive force against Iran if the international community does not act to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. . . .

"If Iran is on the verge of getting a nuclear bomb, it is totally justified to engage in preemptive military action," Mr. Dershowitz told The New York Sun. "The world need not sit back and wait until Iran develops nuclear weapons."

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations has posted the full text of the proposed referral of Ahmadinejad and Iran to the United Nations on the charge of incitement to commit genocide.

Comments

[Kaleb Ray]

I'm probably being overly optimistic, but maybe this is the beginning of a turn for the better from the U.N. Maybe the anit-semitic rhetoric coming out of their hallowed halls will cease.