Iranians mock Holocaust on annual Jerusalem Day

Iranians chanted “Death to Israel” on Friday as Islamist students unveiled a book mocking the Holocaust in an Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day annual parade to show solidarity with the Palestinians.

And in Gaza City, the Islamist Hamas movement that has ruled the impoverished Palestinian territory since June 2007 marked the day by calling for more suicide attacks on Israel.

The book “Holocaust,” published by members of Iran’s Islamist Basij militia, features dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary.

Education Minister Alireza Ali-Ahmadi attended the official launch of the book in Tehran’s Palestine Square.

The cover shows a Jew with a crooked nose and dressed in traditional garb drawing outlines of dead bodies on the ground.

Inside, bearded Jews are shown leaving and re-entering a gas chamber with a counter that reads the number 5,999,999.

Another illustration depicts Jewish prisoners entering a furnace in a Nazi extermination camp and leaving from the other side as gun-wielding “terrorists.”

Yet another shows a patient draped in an Israeli flag and on life support breathing Zyklon-B, the poisonous gas used in the extermination chambers.

Iran does not recognise the Jewish state, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attracted international condemnation by repeatedly predicting Israel is doomed to disappear and branding the Holocaust a “myth.”

The commentary inside the book includes anti-Semitic stereotypes and revisionist arguments, casting doubt that the massacre of Jews took place and mocking Holocaust survivors who claimed reparations after World War II.

One comment, in a question-and-answer format, reads: “How did the Germans emit gas into chambers while there were no holes on the ceiling?” Answer: “Shut up, you criminal anti-Semite. How dare you ask this question?”

In 2006, the Islamic republic hosted a conference of Holocaust deniers and revisionists and a mass-circulation Iranian newspaper held a cartoon competition on the subject.

On Friday, tens of thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran, chanting “Death to Israel,” declaring solidarity with the Palestinians and calling for Jerusalem and Israel to be handed to the Palestinians.

Demonstrators carried placards bearing slogans including “Israel will be destroyed, Palestine is Victorious” and “Holy war until victory,” and they also torched American and Israeli flags.

No Holocaust? It was just a joke I guess, I mean the Germans didn’t kill millions of Jews and America didn’t rescue millions more… So denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Mr Obama says he will meet with these idiots without pre-conditions. Mr Obama thinks WE are to blame for Iran’s power play and I somewhat agree with that assertion. HOWEVER; We all know that blaming is not solving and it is evident that Obama’s entire campaign is about BLAME, his Socialistic tendencies will not help with terrorists the economy or ANY of the current problems our nation faces.

THE ANTI-Christ is here ladies and gentlemen and he is bringing the light… He is Barrack Hussein Obama and he very close to the most powerful nations reigns. Invest in precious metals and survival training.