Netanyahu unequivocally told the assemblage that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s relentless questioning of the Holocaust should never be tolerated. B’nai B’rith commends the clarity the prime minister used to make his points when he held the minutes from the 1942 Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis planned the Final Solution and asked "Is this protocol a lie?" Netanyahu also made his point when he held up Auschwitz blueprints signed by Heinrich Himmler and asked: "Are the successive German governments that have kept these documents for posterity all liars?"

“It was an important moment at the United Nations when the Israeli prime minister directly confronted Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial,” B’nai B’rith President Moishe Smith said. “Ahmadinejad uses his distorted prism to incite hatred for Jews and delegitimize the Jewish state.”

“The Israeli prime minister sent a clear message that Iran poses a global threat,” said B’nai B’rith Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin. “This cannot be overstated. The international community, starting with the United Nations, must take Ahmadinejad at his world when he threatens to wipe Israel off the map, or challenges Western democracies.”

B’nai B’rith supports Netanyahu’s premise that "What starts as attacks on Jews always ends up engulfing others,” and that the United Nations, along with the responsible governments of the world, must ensure that Iran does not achieve nuclear weapons.

B’nai B’rith took part in a rally Thursday protesting Ahmadinejad’s appearance at the U.N., which called for “freedom from Iran’s nuclear threat to Israel, America and the free world; freedom from the United Nation’s anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel; freedom from the threat of Radical Islam to the free world.”

With a full-time office dedicated to United Nations affairs, B’nai B’rith has been active at the world body since its founding. What is said from a United Nations podium gets significant attention and the weight of words spoken at the world body must be carefully weighed.