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Article: Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center Supports Canadaa??s Plan to Walk-Out on President Ahmadinejada??s UN General Assembly Speech.
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- September 23, 2009
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, Sep 23, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies applauds the Canadian government's decision to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's General Assembly address to the United Nations.
In recent years, President Ahmadinejad's aggressive and hateful comments towards Israel and his continuous practice of denying the Holocaust have continued to fuel the fires of hate and discontent in the international community. In recent years, Ahmadinejad has been quoted as stating that Israel should be wiped off the map and that the Holocaust was a myth.
"These types of statements from world ...