Ahmadinejad shunned at the UN, what about NGOs with the same message?
News sources the world over have reported on the mass walkout, namely by European states, during Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hateful speech at the UN yesterday.
Delegates walk out on Ahmadinejad, Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2009
Upon hearing his opening barbs against Israel, the French delegation stood up and walked out. Some 40 diplomats from more than 20 countries, mostly Europeans but including Morocco, followed suit, as did several nongovernmental organizations, including B’nai B’rith International…British Foreign Secretary David Miliband also commented on the speech in a statement, calling the remarks on Israel “offensive, inflammatory and utterly unacceptable.”
(Also see Haaretz, Ynet, BBC, LA Times, NY Times, CNN, Times Online, UK)
One important question remains: why is the international community outraged when Ahmadinejad calls Israel a racist state, while continuing to fund NGOs who propagate such ideas regularly?
