The invaluable One Jerusalem has posted a series of videos from yesterday’s conference in
Others who participated included Professor Ruth Wedgewood of
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