HIKIND ADDRESSES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL VIGIL AT IRANIAN MISSION

NEWS FROM
ASSEMBLYMAN DOV HIKIND

April 3, 2013

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HIKIND ADDRESSES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL VIGIL
AT IRANIAN MISSION

A Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial) vigil will be held this Sunday, April 7, at 12:00 noon in front of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations on Third Avenue and E. 40th Street (622 Third Ave., Manhattan). Prominent elected officials and civic leaders, including NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), will be addressing attendees.

Members of the Jewish community and others, led by the Yom Hashoah Mobilization Committee, will gather to commemorate the millions of innocent people who perished in the Holocaust.

“We need to constantly remind the public and our elected officials of the imminent danger posed by Iran’s nuclear program and anti-Semitic rhetoric,” said Assemblyman Hikind. “Israel is consistently demonized by Iranian and like-minded propagandists with one intent: To destroy her.”

Hikind noted that Iran’s tactics have been painfully reminiscent of what happened before the extermination of six million Jews in Europe; that the appeasement and funding of entities which promote the hatred of others must be stopped. “It’s more than a cliché,” he said. The fact is that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Also scheduled to speak at the vigil are Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, NYS Assemblyman David Weprin, Bill Thompson (mayoral candidate), Rabbi Joseph Potasnik of the N.Y. Board of Rabbis, Mort Klein (President of the Zionist Organization of America), David Ibsen (Executive Director of United Against Nuclear Iran), Ari Kagan (NYC Council Candidate), and Rabbi Shlomo Nisanov of Tehilat Sephardim in Queens.