Iran and Anti-Semitism

By David Aikman

Jewish communities everywhere in the world has often been known as "the canary in the coalmine." How a government behaves towards Jews is the first sign of how it intends to treat all the people under its control.

We've long known about Iran's stated desire to wipe Israel off the map and to deny the World War II Holocaust.

Now that country has raised its campaign against the world's Jews to a new pitch of hatred by quoting from a notorious forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to claim that the Jews are planning to take over the whole world.

Hitler was the first to use this outrageous calumny in his book Mein Kampf. Now the Iranians are following in his footsteps.