EUJS calls day of action

17 December 2009

The European Union of Jewish Students called for a day of action,  
protesting the presence of Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in  
Copenhagen on Thursday 17th December 2009.

The day was meant to begin with a full page ad, sponsored by EUJS  
and Stop The Bomb, in The Copenhagen Post (a Danish newspaper in  
English,  circulating 15,000 papers daily), condemning the Iranian  
president and it's regime for it's pursuit of a nuclear bomb,  
support for terrorism as well as it's ongoing violence against the  
Iranian people. EUJS and Stop The Bomb were however angered and  
disappointed to receive news from The Copenhagen Post as they had  
decided not to publish the ad for unconvincing and unclear reasons.  
This open violation of freedom of speech and press lie in direct  
contrast and irony of the UN’s continued insistence to give one of  
the worst human rights violators in the world an international stage  
to disseminate his constant rhetoric of hate and violence without  
limitation.

EUJS had at the same time, in collaboration with a number of Iranian  
dissident groups, organised two vans to circle Copenhagen city  
centre and the Bella Center Conference Hall. Both cars were draped  
with posters, 2x4 Meters in size, graphically showing the human  
rights abuses that occur on a daily basis in Iran. The cars received  
a high level of public visibility, and continued to raise awareness  
and concern on the subject. The cars will continue to be driving the  
streets of Copenhagen on Friday.

In the afternoon EUJS chairperson Jonas Karpantschof alongside a  
number of high profile Danish MP’s and Iranian Human rights  
activists addressed  a protest organised by Frit Iran against  
Ahmadenijad’s presence in Copenhagen. The Protest was attend by some  
600 people.

This was followed immediately by EUJS’s own protest outside the  
Danish Parliament, The Folketing, which elaborated on message of the  
Iranian human rights violations, but, having collaborated with Stop  
The Bomb, introduced the new and vital message of stopping the  
Iranian regime developing Nuclear weapons. The protest, despite the  
bitter cold, was attended by some 200 people carrying images and  
banners condemning the Iranian regime.

EUJS hopes that the combined efforts of all of the days actions has  
served to awaken and direct public consciousness towards to the dire  
threats that the Iranian regime presents to the world, and how  
Ahmadinjad’s presence should not and will not go unnoticed or  
without protest in Copenhagen, or any other European city in the  
future.

Pictures of all events to come.