I thought your analysis of the "uses" of Ahmadinejad's discussion of the Holocaust was particularly interesting.

This seems quite clear to me too — especially given that conference a couple of years ago in Iran, the so-called "Holocaust denial conference," which was nothing of the sort. A Canadian academic from St. F-X U (a Canadian of Iranian background who almost lost his tenure over it) was invited to that conference and read a paper on the political reconstruction of the Holocaust. Apparently, it was a major topic at that conference. Interestingly, altho our MSM made a huge deal of the conference before it happened, not one journalist covered what actually was talked about there. Too embarrassing, I guess, since it was not the festival of Holocaust deniers which Israel, Washington, and other assorted sources promised it would be.

Ahmadinejad is no more outrageous than any number of idiot Western leaders presently treated as royalty by our MSM — including my own theocon prime minister. But Israel and Washington have been so successful in reconstructing his image that none of us can just accept that there is a leadership vacuum around the globe these days, and outstanding leaders are grossly outnumbered by outrageous ones.

This all goes almost totally unchallenged other than by guys like Ahmadinejad, who are declared Islamofascists by the Western press, or guys like Finkelstein, who are declared self-hating Jews or basically ignored, or guys like Mearsheimer and Walt, who are declared anti-semites or basically ignored.

It is the intellectual and ethical corruption of the West that sustains this insane nonsense. That the Zionists are allowed to get away with this time and again, and that the West today lacks the moral confidence and integrity to challenge this, is a judgment upon the moral putrification of the post-Christian West nearly as much as it is a judgment upon Zionism and the factions of organized Judaism, Christian Zionists and Judeophile liberals that sustain it.

Israeli Jews' consciousness is characterized by a sense of victimization, a siege mentality, blind patriotism, belligerence, self-righteousness, dehumanization of the Palestinians and insensitivity to their suffering.

Colonialism is not only European. Iran is currently attempting colonial-like exageration of their earned stature by militaristic and opportunistic use of others struggles for its own prestige.

The second criticism is the characterization of Israel as a colonial enterprise. Its only a European colonialism is you think of the European Israelis as the only residents/citizens. That is not the case. 40% of Israelis stem from Sephardic roots, similar to Iranian, Iraqi, North African. Further, with multiple generations having now lived there, they are NOW "indigenous".

Further, there was no people that were always there. Persians were NOT always there. They migrated to there. Palestinians were not always there. They migrated to there. There are only two peoples that have "always been there" (defined as migrating there prior to the last ice age. They are Australian aborigines and groups of Sub-Saharan Africans.)

Further, Ahmenidijad's political ideology is directly associated with the Shia theocracy that controls Iran. His ideology is not nazi fascist. Any that propose that are misleading. Nazi ideology was specific.

The Shia theological perspective regards the Islamic Waqf as undividable, and a one-way growth (always growth, never shrinking). In scale the one-way heart valve of increase of the Islamic Waqf dwarfs the very small (but still wrong) one-way heart valve of Israeli expansion into the West Bank.

There is therefore no room for others outside of the Islamic legal and social structure in the waqf, and they will fight by arms and by ideology to accomplish that.

In speaking ONLY in terms of European colonialism Muhammed gives cover for an Islamic and Iranian colonialism.

And opportunistically, Iran wants to be the beneficiary of European and industrial addictions to oil, but doesn't want to participate in commonly including European reasoning into even international relations.

The fascistic element in his speech is his equation that Israel's existence is either a component or outgrowth of European conflicts. It is that. But, it is also a component and outgrowth of Islamic rejection of Jews right to permanently and confidently live in their homes in the Arab and Iranian worlds in safety. That was NOT afforded to Iranian Jews following the Iranian revolution, and is not confidently afforded still (with the conspicuous periodic show-trials of ethnic spies).

His is the jealousy of a small dog for the big dog's bone, NOT a criticism of dog-nature.

I've observed a phenomena of 5 – 1 responses ranting at anyone that uses the term anti-semitism even in definitional, or indirect usage, compared to the actual accusations of anti-semitism.

Its irritating, but the straw dog reactionism is also.

People have to sift through that noise to get to the truth, and as the noise is all you offer, that's the choice "I like your color noise better".

The demonization of the Iranian leader is the more clear act of racism. It is designed, as always in the Imperial West to build and sustain a dehumanizing hatred of a foreign (darker, poorer) nation in acceptance of current and preparation for greater racial violence by the colonial West against said nation.

Ahmadinejad's real sin, as the author so eloquently observes, is the contestation from the leader of a nation who has been constantly exposed to Western and Western-backed violence and threats in the post-WWII era.

The very discourse articulated- disheartening in and of itself- on this site at once is a crucial building block for this history of actual violence by Israel, Europe and the USA against Iran and many other 3rd world peoples, and a boundary-drawing mechanism which disallows the questioning of an inevitably partial, ideological and politically constituted dominant discourse of history, especially surrounding WWII and its aftermath.

That this set of mythical narratives (as the historical stories we tell each other always are) is a key source of power and legitimacy for Israel and the West in its violent and racist endeavors over these decades is amply and vividly demonstrated by the ignorant, emotional and violent reaction of Western critics to Ahmadinejad's many apt criticisms of booth Western and Israeli policy and the mindset that underlies them; one that is nearly universally shared in the West, one that is crucially constituted by a certain WWII and Holocaust narrative and one which is plainly demonstrated in the attack on Ahmadinejad's comments on this very site.

The racist ideology of empire creeps into our minds and hearts as even against our best stated objectives and positions.

what does jewry fear? truth.