Walkout at Ahmadinejad's Speech on Racism

Delegates from about 30 countries walked out of a speech by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the UN anti-racism conference held in in Geneva, Switzerland.

 
In his speech, Ahmadinejad said "Jewish migrants from Europe and the United States had been sent to the Middle East after World War II in order to establish a racist government in the occupied Palestine... And in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressi