German gov't: Iran's call for wiping Israel off the map isn't anti-Semitic

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has declared that Iran's call to wipe out the Jewish state is not an anti-Semitic expression [H/T Jerusalem Post], it's just the way they roll.

On October 1, Merkel’s Foreign Ministry said that the call by commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) Gen. Hossein Salami [aka Insane Hossein] was simply "anti-Israel rhetoric."

"They are just vords," she said in German. "Ve have nothing to add to the reply of the foreign office, and let me tell you, I even have Chewish acquaintances, so don't tell me I hate the Chews."

The Jerusalem Post specifically asked if Salami’s statements are anti-Semitic . . . crickets.

In late September, Salami delivered a call to exterminate the Jewish state and all the Jewish men, women and children, that live there. He said this in front of an audience of IRGC leaders that was publicized by the state-funded IRNA agency, as well as other Iranian regime-controlled outlets.

Salami said that “This sinister regime must be wiped off the map and this is no longer… a dream [but] it is an achievable goal.” [He woke up and the sheets were moist.]

And what makes Israel sinister?

The so-called "occupation" by Israel of the land they have "occupied" occurred long before Islamic anti-Semitism was born and called for in the Qu'ran. A recent discovery suggests Israel had a metropolis-like city 5,000 years ago--long before Mohammed was born.

Salami said that his country has “managed to obtain the capacity to destroy the impostor Zionist regime” 40 years after the bloody 1979 Islamic revolution.

The German Foreign Ministry issued the following statement in German and English but not in Persian (Farsi):

“We condemn the recent threats by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps against Israel in the strongest possible terms. Such anti-Israel rhetoric is completely unacceptable. Israel’s right to exist is not negotiable. We urge Iran to commit to maintaining peaceful relations with all states in the region and to take practical steps to de-escalate tensions.”

When asked on Twitter why German Ambassador to Iran Michael Klor-Berchtold did not tweet the statement in Farsi and why the German Foreign Ministry did not translate the comment into Farsi, both the Foreign Ministry and Klor-Berchtold did not reply.

The German Foreign Ministry's failure to acknowledge the obvious anti-Semitic and genocidal sentiment expressed in Salami's rhetoric is very disturbing, but at least their Chancellor has some Jewish friends.

In February, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sent a telegram to the mullah regime in Tehran that praised Iran’s revolution.

Global anti-Semitism is alive and thriving.


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