Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret, evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows.
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth. [continued…]
Chris Hedges, former NY Times Bureau Chief in Middle East, wrote a wonderful book on how America is divided between the few who think and the many who dupe themselves with spectacle. If you teach young people, please, please, please show this to your class and discuss it for it is THEIR future that we old farts are eating and defecation on now!
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