Matthias Küntzel: Prof. Benz and the Earthquake

Re “Berlin conference didn’t lump Islamophobia with anti-Semitism” (Right of Reply, Yehuda Bauer, March 5):
I am very grateful that Elie Wiesel took a position in The Jerusalem Post on the dispute about the Berlin Center for Anti-Semitism Research. He spoke carefully, in the conditional: “If indeed the Berlin Center downplays the Iranian anti-Semitic threat, it surely is deplorable.”
The Berlin Center is an important public institution with an international reputation. It should, especially in Germany, be addressing Iran’s anti-Semitic threat energetically, so that politicians and industry understand why the increase in German exports to Iran in 2008 is inexcusable.
In this area, the center has failed. To date, it has not published a single public statement on Iran’s anti-Semitic threat. Whenever its director, Prof. Wolfgang Benz, distances himself from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he does so in general terms that do not address his anti-Semitism.
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