Labor youth gear up for anti-Ahmadinejad protest

As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to deliver his much anticipated address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York today, the Young World Labor Zionist Movement has launched an information campaign designed to draw attention to the plight of students and youth in Iran.

Movement activists, in conjunction with other Zionist youth groups, plan to stage a demonstration opposite UN headquarters that they are billing as a "rebuttal" of the Iranian leader's speech. The campaign also urges Jews throughout the world to change their status lines on social networking sites to read "Young Israelis are mobilizing to aid young Iranians."

"The goal of this campaign is to show the world that young Israelis are demonstrating a sense of responsibility toward young people from another country who wish to live democratic lives and are unable to do so," said Dafna Cohen, one of the architects of the campaign. "We want to use our protest as a vehicle to call for an end to the oppression, persecution and abuse of many students and young people from Iran who wish to protest the forged election results there."

Young Labor officials also plan to brief foreign correspondents based in Israel on the details of their initiative against the Iranian leadership.