But it would be a tragic mistake to fall into a racist trap when condemning Mr. The regime in Iran must be made to understand that the world community has zero tolerance for such anti-Semitic ranting. Surely those comments deserve to be thoroughly condemned. Ahmadinejad’s odious comments about wiping Israel off the map, and his even more shameful denial of the Holocaust. Black would now be looking for a whole bevy of lawyers to answer the many libelous accusations he has made against the entire nation of Iran. If nations could have their day in libel court, Mr. To chronicle every factual error and faulty accusation in the piece would require an essay much longer than the original piece. His defamatory diatribe against the nation of Iran, published in the San Francisco Chronicle of January 8, 2006, is replete with half-truths, gross misstatement of facts and a defiant disregard for known but inconvenient facts of history. Edwin Black, few things are more dangerous than the temptation to conflate fact and fiction, to traffic in hackneyed shibboleths, and to write half-truths based on scant knowledge. Black’s article are serious, I think publishing the direct response to his attacks is also necessary.Įven for acclaimed investigative journalists like Mr. I prepared another essay, dealing directly with each of the accusations, and the essay was published in the Insight section of the Chronicle on Sunday, Febru. But the editors of the paper told me that they do not publish polemical responses. I prepared the response below and sent it to the San Francisco Chronicle, where the original article had appeared. In early January of this year, a prominent American journalist published a strangely inaccurate attack on Iran, making the country complicit in the crimes of the Holocaust. Iran, Jews and the Holocaust: An answer to Mr.
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