For the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who also spoke at the Washington event, the meaning of remembrance is not to remain stuck in the past. He said, “So in this place we may ask: Have we learned anything from it? If so, how is it that Assad is still in power? How is it that the number one Holocaust denier [Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is still a president? He who threatens to use nuclear weapons to destroy the Jewish state.” http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/296800/have-we-learned-holocaust-benjamin-weinthal

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By way of background, it is worth highlighting that Micheline Calmy-Rey, the former Swiss foreign minister, flew to Tehran in 2008 and enthusiastically embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.  The point of her visit was to participate in a signing ceremony for the 18-22 billion euro Swiss EGL gas deal with the National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC). This is the same Calmy-Rey, a leader of the Social Democratic Party, who proposed seminars on different perspectives of the Holocaust back in 2006 when meeting with an Iranian delegation on the nuclear crisis. http://blogs.jpost.com/content/iran-and-hamas-swiss-enablers

The Swiss government’s decision last week not to fall in line with the full implementation of EU and US sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank and oil trade prompted tough words from the general secretary of Switzerland’s Jewish community on Monday. http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=267303