Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Jewish?
What it means if the Iranian president and Holocaust denier has Jewish roots
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(Retna Ltd./Corbis/Dennis Van Time)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might not be who you think he is, said Delia Lloyd in Politics Daily. According to Britain's Daily Telegraph, a photograph of the president holding up his national identity card during the recent Iranian elections suggests that the Holocaust denier's family has Jewish roots. So could it be that he makes a big show of his hatred of Jews out of desperation to "shore up his cred in radical Shia circles"?
The theory that Ahmadinejad is Jewish, said Meir Javedanfar in Britain's Guardian, is mostly based on the fact that his family used to have a different last name—Sabourjian—that was derived from the term for a weaver of the sabour, the name for the Jewish tallit shawl in Persia. The trouble is, Iranian Jews don't really use that word for the Jewish prayer shawl. Besides, Ahmadinejad's parents are devout Muslims—his mother is even believed to be a direct bloodline descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Ahmedinejad Jewish? "Who cares?" said Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic. Everybody knows "it ain't easy being Jewish," and that "some Jews, the weaker ones, adopt the culture and outlook of their oppressors." Maybe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots, maybe he's just a garden variety anti-Semite. The result is the same.
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Posted by tim, Monday, October 5, 2009, 1:52 pm Regardless of his comefrom, he's a goof, albeit a dangerous one...
Posted by Pete, Monday, October 5, 2009, 2:45 pm Aren't we all a touch of jew? He's a bully, with a nuke. Dangerous. And, here we are downsizing our military. Good plan. NOT.
Posted by Aaron, Monday, October 5, 2009, 3:30 pm He is, in my opinion, the primary reason this country needs to reverse its Executive Order that bans political assassinations. Chavez would be reason number 2, with Kim Jong Ill a close 3rd. Deal with the problems this way, and you avoid failed i.e. political wars like Gulf War 1 and 2.
Posted by jerry friedman, Monday, October 5, 2009, 4:12 pm oy vey!! Now everyone is going to blame Jews for this nut cake. One way or the other, Jews seem to be involved if not responsible. Sooooo many cultural troublemakers are explained away as Jews.......like Freud, Marx, etc. Well, at least Jesus wasn't Jewish! :
Posted by pascal, Monday, October 5, 2009, 5:28 pm Some Jews, the weaker ones, adopt the culture and outlook of their oppressors and some nonJews, adopt the culture and outlook of their Jew,the stronger ones, oppressors !!
Posted by Dave, Monday, October 5, 2009, 5:29 pm No, he is not Jewish. The Daily Telegraph is full of hack journalists.See this new and detailed article, published today Ahmadinejad has no Jewish rootsguardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/05/mahmoudahmadinejadjewishfamily
Posted by nem0.n00ne, Monday, October 5, 2009, 10:32 pm Weren't there the same rumors about Hitler?
Posted by mohammad hooshmand, Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 6:11 pm None of the nonsense about his antisemitism seems to be based on facts. Israel propaganda machine, rightist Israeli supporters and a whole bunch of misinformed others who do not understand Farsi the present persian language to know EXACTLY what he said or did not say are beating up on him for antisemitismIsrael wants to portray anyone who criticizes it, as an antisemite Like Senator McCarthy used to do about the fictitious commies in the 50's.If he is Jewish should not make any difference about the truths he speaks about Israel.
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