Metro Detroiters will gather at the Holocaust Memorial Center on Monday, September 22 at noon to protest Iranian president Mahmood Amadinejad’s second address at the United Nations. Members of the community are encouraged to join the protest against Ahmadinejad’s program to develp nuclear weapons, his anti-Israel and anti-Western pronouncements, and his repeated denials of the Holocaust. 

 

Organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council, the noon protest will feature Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Congregation Adat Shalom as keynote speaker. He will be joined by Rev. Kenneth Flowers of Greater New MtS. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, Council Executive Director Robert Cohen, and Rabbi Charles Rosensveig, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center. They will all call for stronger diplomatic, political and economic sanctions against Ahmadinejad’s regime to force an end to Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

 

In September 2007, hundreds of metro Detroiters gathered at the HMC to protest Ahmadinejad’s address to the United Nations at that time. For information about the September 22 protest, please call the Council office (248) 642-5393.