Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked Holocaust Memorial Day by addressing a conference entitled: “Holocaust: The West’s Sacred Lie.”
In his speech, he stated that “power-seeking networks introduced themselves as defenders of a number of victims and issued an order that the survivors … must receive blood money, part of which was the establishment of the Zionist regime on Palestinian territory.”
Anyone still arguing that the question of whether he’s a Holocaust denier remains an open one?
More of Ahmadinejad’s ravings were reported by the regime’s English mouthpiece, Press TV, which - disgracefully - is permitted to continue masquerading as a legitimate news organization through its bureaus in a number of major western cities. “Western countries have prevented any kind of research on the Holocaust for almost 60 years to maintain their dominance over other nations,” they quote the President as saying.
Could Ahmadinejad be a self-hating Jew, though? According to Radio Free Europe, it’s a distinct possibility:
Mehdi Khazali, the son of the conservative Ayatollah Khazali, has written on his personal website hat he recently learned that President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots.
Khazali notes that Ahmadinejad changed his family name from Saburjian, and says that the origins of the Saburjian family in the town of Aradan should be investigated.
Ironically, as the RFE report infers, it looks like even this arch antisemite is not immune from a bit of traditional Jew baiting:
The claim about his background should be seen in the context of a growing rift among the president’s political allies, the so-called principalists, in the run-up to the June presidential election.
In other words, don’t expect an op-ed by Ahmadinejad beginning with the words “As a Jew…” any time soon.
“Mehdi Khazali, the son of the conservative Ayatollah Khazali, has written on his personal website hat he recently learned that President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots.”
This is standard antisemitic fare.
First they attack known Jews then they start to attack “hidden Jews” (people they don’t like), finally they begin to attack each other as Jews.
There is also a weird after life to this antisemitic dynamic. Once the antisemitic plague subsides those who were infected by the disease pretend that it never happened or that those responsible for it were themselves “hidden Jews.” Hence the stories about “Hitler having had “Jewish blood.”
Its fallacious, redundant repugnant logic is full (fool) proof.
jdyer there was one case, when this accusation was not an excuse. Béla Imrédy a liberal bank manager became in May 1938 prime minister of Hungary. He driftet very much to the right, took money from the nazis. All this did not please to the ruling circles of Hungary who were anglophil. Somebody found out that his great-grand mother was a converted Jewess. It was a perfect excuse to fire him in fall 1939. He joined openly the extreme right and became after the Szalasi putsch on October 15, 1944 minister. He fled Hungary however the Americans sent him back to Hungary, where he was hanged.
jdyer:
According the Illustrated Atlas of 4000 years of Jewish Civilization, J. Bacon with maps by Sir Martin Gilbert, some of the most virulent antisemites of Inquisition times and since were “conversos” or descendents of conversos.
And there have been plenty of people with Jewish ancestry, whether converts from Judaism or not, who would qualify. Think of the virulently anti-semetic Russian legislator whose name escapes at the moment, or Bobby Fischer the chess savant to name two.
I’d check with an authority on the Persian Jewish community before dismissing the possibility out of hand.
That Russian legislator, whose power has waned in recent years as Putin has taken a chokehold of Russia, is Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Not to be outdone, you must also remember Karl Marx. I think Leon Trotsky was another, insomuch that he helped to institute the Yevsektsia.