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Iran’s Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism

transender | 23.12.2006 11:31 | Anti-racism | World

The "speech of Rabbi Cohen in Teheran: Orthodox Jewish attitude to the 'Holocaust'" repost has, so far, over 50 comments, many of a dubious nature:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358533.html?c=on

The WSWS web site has just published an article on "Iran’s Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism":

 http://wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/iran-d23.shtml

An extract appears below.

In his year-end press conference, President George W. Bush once again condemned the Iranian government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the officially sponsored conference of Holocaust deniers convened in Teheran earlier this month, declaring that it “heralded a really backward view of the history of the world.”

This is from a US president whose administration frankly discusses the options of supporting a sectarian civil war that would result in the “the uprooting or extermination” of Iraq’s more than 5 million Sunni Arabs and of provoking a region-wide Sunni-Shia war that could claim millions more victims (New York Times, Dec. 17, “The Capital Awaits a Masterstroke on Iraq”).

The denunciations of the Iran conference have been nearly universal. Leaders of governments in Europe and America as well as the Vatican—all of whose predecessors actively collaborated in the Holocaust, ignored and covered it up or worked strenuously to prevent its survivors from entering their territories—were among the loudest critics.

The hypocrisy underlying such condemnation is plain. The aim of Washington and its allies is to use the issue to provide one more justification for another war of aggression in the Middle East aimed at securing domination over the region’s vast energy supplies.

Having said that, the conference convened by the Iranian regime was as shameful as it was reactionary.

It managed to turn Teheran into a temporary Mecca for the jetsam and flotsam of Holocaust denial and outright neo-fascism. Such unlikely friends of the “Iranian revolution” as David Duke, a former “Imperial Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan and self-described “white nationalist,” were provided a platform courtesy of the Iranian government to spew their anti-Semitic and racist filth.

By Bill Van Auken
23 December 2006

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Full Marx for idiocy

23.12.2006 23:02

There are still lots of socialists who blindly follow Marx. Having in their hands Marx's masterly analysis of Capitalism, they follow him into the idiocy of denouncing Malthus and destroying this Creation of Life on this planet.

Those who think about how to achieve the wealth to population ratios necessary to produce the Higher Communism Marx was on about should be flabbergasted that Marx did not see the obvious solution. I have been blathering about it off and on since the late '40s. There were Wobblies who had worked it out the basic theory in the 1920s but feared to offend their Comrades.

It is long gone time for the Dialectical Synthesis of Marx and Malthus, Homo Sap survival is almost certainly about to end. And Bill Gates is making a massive contribution to Mass Extinction with no human survivors. He thinks he is clever, but he is an even bigger idiot than Marx was. It is overdue time to build an Ark to carry a reseed microcosm of EarthLife. Unles of course you are on the side of Satan and determined to end this Creation.

Ilyan


not a rabbi after all

24.12.2006 02:00

Turns out "Rabbi" Cohen isn't even a rabbi. He only plays one when he's going to Holocaust denial conferences. And not only has he been repudiated by the Satmar but even the self-promoters of Neturai Karta are distancing themselves.

 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1164881938502

gehrig


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