ICEJ unveils Christian-Jewish campaign to indict Ahmadinejad

sing the ongoing Feast of Tabernacles event in the capital as a backdrop, the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem announced on Thursday that a growing list of prominent Christian ministries has joined the effort to indict Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide against Israel.

"With the addition of Pat Robertson, Gary Bauer and other prominent Christian leaders [to this initiative], we are making an important and bold statement that Jews and Christians have joined hands like never before to confront the looming Iranian threat against Israel," said Rev. Malcolm Hedding, executive director of the ICEJ. "We are confident that the growing momentum of this global campaign will eventually succeed in holding Ahmadinejad accountable for his radioactive rhetoric against the Jewish State."

The overall plan, which was launched nearly two years ago at the behest of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - headed by former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Dore Gold - soon garnered the support of Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, Canadian MP Irwin Cotler and the ICEJ.

More recently, former US presidential nominee Sen. Hillary Clinton expressed her support for the initiative, along with an "overwhelming majority" of the US House of Representatives, the ICEJ said.

However, the ICEJ added, "Joe Biden, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not allowed the indictment initiative to come up for a vote in over a year. We see this as being weak on Iran, as far as Biden is concerned."

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