Published in February’s New York Review of Books:
To the Editors:
We the undersigned Iranians,
Notwithstanding our diverse views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict;
Considering that the Nazis’ coldly planned “Final Solution” and their ensuing campaign of genocide against Jews and other minorities during World War II constitute undeniable historical facts;…
Pay homage to the memory of the millions of Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and express our empathy for the survivors of this immense tragedy as well as all other victims of crimes against humanity across the world.
There’s a part in the middle that repeats the old canard that anti-Semitism was only introduced into the Muslim world by Europeans (which is, of course, patently untrue). But debunking that is not going to happen today, and so we pass this on to you as a tiny, bright ray of hope that the world has not gone totally insane.
Now if we could only get diplomatic, internationalist sophisticates like the CFR to take such an uncompromising stance against the pathological Iranian lunatics responsible for this travesty…
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