Iran (Again) Calls for Wiping Out Israel; Will Juan Cole (Again) Deny Iran’s Own Words?

Will Juan Cole of the U. of Michigan believe the Iranians this time? Yesterday Iran test-fired two missiles on which had been written--in Hebrew and Farsi--"Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth.” After then-Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s 2005 call to “wipe Israel off the map,” Cole and other apologists for the mullahs denied Ahmadinejad said any such thing even though the official Iranian translation claimed that he did. Will Cole et al. offer the world a kinder, gentler translation of Iran’s latest call for genocide?

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
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