Iranian Ambassador Makes Inflammatory Remarks About Holocaust, FOX News at Columbia University
NEW YORK — The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations sparked a furor Wednesday night when he said at a speech in New York that Palestinians are suffering today because of "atrocities" that happened in World War II, specifically against the Jews.
Comments made by Javad Zarif about the Holocaust at Columbia University were met with animated protests from some students in the audience.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened and has also called for the destruction of Israel.
When asked whether he believed six million Jews died in the Holocaust, Zarif answered, "I believe a great atrocity was committed in the Second World War. The question that needs to be asked is what crime was committed by Palestinians in that atrocity?"
A number of students attending his talk, hosted Wednesday evening on campus by a Columbia University international studies group called Toward Reconciliation, loudly voiced their disagreement with his statements.
"Do I have a right to freedom of expression?" Zarif challenged. "I'm answering. If you want to stifle the right of people to freedom of expression, that's your problem, not mine." ...
Video: Iran’s UN ambassador Zarif complains
his free speech stifled, attacks Fox News
Ian Schwartz
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Iranian ambassador to the UN Javad Zarif spoke at Columbia University last night.
Note that no one pied him, drove him from the stage or did anything that moonbat students routinely do to conservative speakers. The ambassador did get testy when questioned if he believed six million Jews died in the Holocaust. You’d think that would be an easy one, but Zarif caused consternation when he would not give a yes or no answer. But, again, students didn’t rush the stage or call him a “terrorist” like moonbat students routinely do to conservatives. Talk among the crowd grew louder and louder demanding an answer. Zarif, a creature of totalitarian Iran, isn’t used to such insolence. He eventually got fed up and accused the students of stifling his right to free expression. Do I even have to point out the irony? Yes I do.
A student challenged Zarif’s statement that Hezbollah is a democratic government, to which Zarif responded by accusing him of consuming everything Fox News says. That’s the third attack on Fox News this month. ...
