UN kicks Jewish, Iranian groups out of racism meet
By ELIANE ENGELER
Associated Press Writer
The United Nations is expelling three Jewish and Iranian groups from a global racism conference for "unacceptable behaviour."
UN spokesman Rupert Colville says the groups whose passes are being withdrawn are the French Union of Jewish Students, Coexist, and the Neda Institute for Political and Scientific Research.
Colville told reporters today that members of the first two groups had been involved in disrupting the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The Neda Institute from Iran had distributed inflammatory material to meeting participants.
The week-long conference has been overshadowed by Ahmadinejad's accusation that the West used the Holocaust as a "pretext" to harm the Palestinians, and for subsequent protests against him.
Meanwhile, Iran has sent a letter of protest to the UN secretary general for criticizing Ahmadinejad's diatribe against Israel.
Iran's ambassador to the UN said in the letter sent to Ban Ki-moon that the president "was subjected to unfair and unwarranted harsh criticism."
Maybe attitude has a lot to do with it...
...and it spreads like a cancer.
This kind of thinking is a blight on humanity.
On a lighter note, in regards to Jews being apes and all, I stumbled upon this:
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