Student Activists Stand Up for the Ayatollah's Nuclear 'Rights'

You would think that York U. students who belong to something called the Iranian Human Rights Society would have a clue about the threat posed to the entire region--the entire planet--by a nuclear Ayatollah. In which case you would be dead wrong, since that organization--kvetching here at length in Excalibur, the York U. rag--is apparently more concerned about defending that nation's "peaceful" nuclear activities:

As members of the Iranian Human Rights Society at York University (IHRS-YU), we strive to be the voice of the Iranian people, and have on many occasions condemned the government of Iran for its human rights violations against its own people.

After hearing a speech by Gil Hoffman at York University on Nov. 4, 2010, however, we deemed it our duty to voice our opinion regarding some of the inaccurate, baseless and pro-war statements he made during his speech.

Hoffman, the chief political correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, referred to current Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu as a “messiah” whose duty it is to “save the Jewish people from Iran.” Such comments are misleading and fail to capture the genuine picture, as Iran is home to thousands of people of Jewish faith – in fact it is the second largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel.

Furthermore, Hoffman implied Iran intends to build a nuclear weapon. Iranians claim they want their nuclear power plant for energy, he said. Russia agreed to take Iran’s uranium, enrich it, and give it back to them in a way that it can- not be used as weapons, but Iran said no, really proving to the international community that they are seeking a nuclear capability, Hoffman concluded.

Unfortunately, however, the stark reality is different. Iran attempted to get its uranium enriched by Turkey and Brazil, only to be rejected by the United States. Furthermore, it must be emphasized Iran has a right by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to the development of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, but as a non-signatory of the NPT, and as a nuclear weapons state, we believe that Israel, as well as Hoffman, are guilty of hypocrisy when it comes to its accusations against Iran...

What an odd bunch of "human rights" activists. Ones who mention Iran's (much diminished) Jewish population, but not how, as a minority community, it is continually oppressed by Iran's fanatical theocratic regime; who protest Israel's "hypocrisy" while pretty much parroting the Ayatollah's lie/line about "peaceful" enrichment.

Why, it's almost as if they aren't legit "human rights" activists at all.