Iranians chanted “Death to Israel” as a group of Islamist students unveiled a book mocking the Holocaust in an annual parade on Friday to show solidarity with the Palestinians.

Featuring dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary, the book �Holocaust” was published by members of the Islamist Basij militia.
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Education Minister Alireza Ali-Ahmadi was present in the capital’s Palestine Square for the book’s presentation during the annual Quds (Jerusalem) Day parade.
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The cover shows a Jew with a crooked nose and dressed in traditional garb drawing outlines of dead bodies on the ground.
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Inside, bearded Jews are shown leaving and re-entering a gas chamber with a counter that reads the number 5,999,999.

Another depicts Jewish prisoners entering a furnace in a Nazi extermination camp and leaving as gun-wielding terrorists from the other side.
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Yet another shows a patient covered in an Israeli flag and on life support breathing Zyklon-B, the poisonous gas used in the extermination chambers.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attracted international condemnation by repeatedly predicting Israel is doomed to disappear and branding the Holocaust a “myth.”
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The commentary inside the book includes anti-Semitic stereotypes and revisionist arguments, casting doubt on the massacre of Jews and mocking Holocaust survivors who claimed reparations after World War II.
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On Friday, tens of thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran, chanting “Death to Israel,” declaring solidarity with the Palestinians and calling for Jerusalem and Israel to be handed to the Palestinians.
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Demonstrators carried placards which read, “Israel will be destroyed, Palestine is Victorious” and “Holy war until victory,” and they torched American and Israeli flags.

(Source: AFP /EJP)