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Iran to Rupert Murdoch: Surprise! You’re Jewish!

Aug 16, 2011 12:29 am By Marisol Seibold

Going down the conspiracy paranoia checklist: “Iran’s parliament report states that Murdoch is a ‘Jewish Australian-US-American Capitalist,’ a “Jewish Zionist” and a ‘right-wing conservative’.” Trifecta!

That is, however, only the most high-profile item from a very damning report on the activities of Iran’s Majlis, especially in a “scientific” capacity reminiscent of Nazi ventures along those lines. “Iranian report attacks Jews, Israel and the UK,” by Benjamin Weinthal for the Jerusalem Post, August 15 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):

BERLIN — Close relations between the Bundestag and Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, led a prominent German-Iranian scholar to issue an analysis on Friday of a July- August Majlis report that attacks Jews, Israel, Rupert Murdoch’s media enterprise, women’s rights and Western culture.

“The German Bundestag maintains parliamentary relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s pseudo-parliament. The Bundestag believes that “˜paths of communications among parliamentarians could be important.” For this reason it is surely important to be aware of the anti- Semitic stances taken by the scientific department of the Iranian Majlis,” wrote Dr. Wahied Wahdat- Hagh, an expert on the Islamic Republic and a senior fellow at the Brussels-based European Foundation for Democracy.

The results of Wahdat-Hagh’s investigation, which was written in German and based on his analysis of the 27-page Persian-language parliamentary document, appeared on the foundation’s website on Friday.

“The so-called scientific department of Iran’s pseudo-parliament published a study titled “˜The Zionist Lobby in England’s Power Structure,– according to Wahdat- Hagh’s report.

Iran’s parliament is a phony legislature because it is not elected by the population, Wahdat- Hagh told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The candidates are imposed by the Iranian dictator, he said. “It is not a democratic body.”

The Iranian study asserts that the “Zionist Lobby” embodied by Rupert Murdoch, the founder of News Corp. and the owner of several newspapers in the United Kingdom, is responsible for the telephone-hacking scandal in England.

Journalists from the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, a Murdoch-owned publication, have been engulfed in a scandal because they reportedly illegally hacked into private telephone voice mail boxes.

Iran’s parliament report states that Murdoch is a “Jewish Australian- US-American Capitalist,” a “Jewish Zionist” and a “right-wing conservative.” The Iranians contend that Murdoch’s mother was Jewish and that he was raised Jewish. Both assertions are fabrications. Murdoch, who has voiced strong support for Israel’s security and strongly opposes expressions of modern anti-Semitism, is not Jewish.

Speaking last year at an Anti- Defamation League event in his honor, he said, “When Americans think of anti-Semitism, we tend to think of the vulgar caricatures and attacks of the first part of the 20th century. Now it seems that the most virulent strains come from the Left. Often this new anti-Semitism dresses itself up as legitimate disagreement with Israel.”

The Zionists are also responsible for the violation of human rights in the UK, the Iranian report says. Iran’s government frequently uses the term “Zionist” to mean Jewish Israelis and Diaspora Jews who support Israel.

“The goal of the [Iranian] report is clear. The Jews are to blame for the problem of the British phone-hacking affair,” wrote Wahdat-Hagh. […]

The Iranian legislative study also launched into a tirade against the BBC, claiming that the British publicly owned media company serves the interests of the “Zionists.” Wahdat-Hagh noted the irony of the Iranian attack because the BBC is widely viewed as one of the most critical news organizations when reporting on Israel.

Germany”s decision to invite members of Iran’s Majilis to the Bundestag in June severely strained relations between the Knesset and the Bundestag. A visit of Iranian lawmakers to the Bundestag in June coincided with a delegation of MKs, prompting MK Shaul Mofaz to file a letter of protest to his counterparts in the Bundestag.

“The Iranian Majlis is a façade of a parliament that covers a murderous regime that oppresses its people and tortures young students and protesters. They support and export terror, aid Assad’s regime in repressing protests against him, deny the Holocaust — all while manufacturing nuclear weapons and missiles in order to commit genocide against the Jews and erase our only state from the map. We cannot stand by while German representatives hold a dialogue with a regime that calls for genocide,” Mofaz wrote….

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