Dear Friends,

During the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly this week, the world witnessed two very contrasting messages from two very different leaders.

Shamefully, the international community once again provided a platform for Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to address the gathered nations, even though he is one of the most notorious anti-Semites of our time and his credentials as an elected leader are seriously in doubt. Not only has he repeatedly called to “wipe Israel off the map,” he also is an ardent denier of the Holocaust. Just days before his latest UN appearance, he again insisted the Shoah is a “myth” which has been exploited by “Zionist criminals” to manipulate the world into accepting Israel’s existence.

In his speech in New York on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad yet once more assailed Israel, accusing the ‘Zionist entity’ of genocide in Gaza and of racism against Palestinian Arabs.

The following day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was prepared with a powerful response, complete with dramatic proofs of the tragic reality of the Holocaust. [VIEW HERE!] He displayed the original blueprints for the construction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, signed by Hitler’s deputy Heinrich Himmler. He also held up the original protocol of the infamous Wannsee conference where the Nazi leadership officially decided to implement the “Final Solution,” whose aim was to exterminate the 11 million Jews then residing in Europe.

“Is this all a lie?” Netanyahu pointedly asked world leaders. Then he challenged them to make up their mind. “Either you support Israel or you support the terrorists,” he stated.

Netanyahu commended those countries which had decided to walk out on Ahmadinejad, while scorning those who stayed to listen to and even applaud his tirade. In a very literal sense, the wheat was separated from the chaff. Indeed, the entire world is standing today in this same valley of decision –  whether to stand up for truth and historic justice, or to give place to hatred and warped apocalyptic visions? Most importantly for us is: What will the Christian church decide?

Earlier today, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem communicated to Prime Minister Netanyahu our wholehearted congratulations for the powerful message and moral challenge which he placed before the family of nations. In standing up as he did, with such courage and strength of character, it was actually a stand for decent people of goodwill everywhere.

We now want to turn to you, our friends and supporters, in asking that you stand with us as we, too, take a clear stand against the virulent anti-Semitism represented by Ahmadinejad, which unfortunately is finding acceptance and expression even in ‘polite’ Western societies.

The ICEJ has partnered with the one institution which has been entrusted by the Jewish state and people with keeping the memory and truth of the Holocaust alive – Yad Vashem. This revered memorial and museum not only kindles the eternal flame of remembrance for the more than six million Jews brutally murdered by the Nazi regime. Yad Vashem also is a bulwark for the very existence of the state of Israel. For if the veracity of the Holocaust can be successfully denied, then the legitimacy of the modern Jewish State is undermined as well.

Please take a stand with us and support the Christian Desk at Yad Vashem. Help us to ensure that history will not repeat itself. It is decision time!

Sincerely Yours!

Malcolm Hedding                       Juergen Buehler
ICEJ Executive Director            ICEJ International Director