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Keep the Holocaust-Denying President of Iran Out of Germany

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Angela Merkel - Chancellor Federal Republic Germany

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Dear (recipient name),

I join with the Simon Wiesenthal Center in urging you to state unequivocally and publicly that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would not be welcome in Germany.

Although your government cannot refuse Ahmadinejad entry into the country because as a head of state he does not need a visa, Germany has a moral obligation to speak out against a leader of a country who denies the Holocaust and has called for the obliteration of the State of Israel. 

If President Ahmadinejad pays no penalty for his antisemitism, Holocaust denial and genocidal threats against Israel, allowing him to sit in the VIP section of the World Cup before a viewing audience of billions legitimizes his message.

Seventy years ago, the nations of the world came to Berlin to participate in the 1936 Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany.  Then, too, many said that their motivation was sports, not politics.  But Hitler used the Olympics to prop up his stature as an international statesman. That is exactly what Ahmadinejad will do unless Germany tells him that proponents of antisemitism and genocide have no place at the World Cup.

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