April 05, 2013
In today's Washington Post, opinion writer and former US Holocaust Memorial Council member Michael Gerson focuses attention on the inflammatory rhetoric of Iranian leadership, suggesting that it is not only hate speech, but may also border on incitement to genocide.
Michael Abramowitz, director of the Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, is quoted in the piece: "How many other states do we know that talk about other human beings in the way the Iranian leadership speaks of Israelis and Jews? They are conditioning generations of young people in their own country and the broader Middle East to think of Jews as subhuman, which makes acts of terror by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah seem more thinkable.”