Fiery speech

Jewish leaders were quick to condemn the Iranian diplomat’s fiery attack on Israel (News, October 29) but they stay silent on the massive ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Israel since 1948.

Of course the Holocaust is fact, and not fake as stated by the diplomat, but so too is Israel’s apartheid.

From the widespread theft of Palestinian homes in 1948/49 to the bulldozing of Palestinian villages today, Jewish immigrants have been perpetrating crimes against humanity.

Ron Robert, Dunedin

The proposal that we should laugh off an anti-Israel speech by the Iranian diplomat Hormoz Ghahremani will not work (Editorial, October 29). The reasons why are given in the accompanying front-page article.

Ghahremani is not alone. Two others at the Quds Day gathering to oppose Zionism – Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Shafie and community elder Sayed Taghi Derhami – made aggressive speeches along similar lines.

Ghahremani also demonstrated the practice of taqiyya – telling an ‘infidel’ audience one thing and a Muslim audience another – when he admitted that what he had said privately was acceptable but that it was a mistake to put it on YouTube.

Muslim nations in the Middle East are surreptitiously bringing to New Zealand their policy of Israel’s removal.

Barrie Davis, Wellington

How can Jonathan Milne (Editorial, October 29) claim that the National Front turned up to confront a peaceful protest against racism considering the following facts?

This was our 14th annual flag day event and we applied many weeks ago for permission to be at Parliament grounds.

How can he say that the antiwhite mob were holding a peaceful rally and in the same sentence say that we had to run whimpering to the police for protection?

The big question is this: why were there two Green MPs fronting a violent mob?

The National Front are neither white power or thugs. We are hardworking New Zealanders.

Kevin Gibson, National Front chairman, Auckland