Head of Iran’s hate cartoon fest equates Holocaust with Israeli actions in ‘Palestine’

[Little Tich]

Source: Times of Israel

US Holocaust museum debunks Tehran regime’s claim not to support the competition; WJC says Iran making a mockery of itself and of the world community

he secretary of Iran’s latest international cartoon contest on the Holocaust said it was not a denial of the Nazi crimes, but then equated the Nazi genocide with Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

Masuod Shojai-Tabatabai said Saturday that organizers have no interest in denying the Holocaust or “ridiculing its victims.”

He claimed, however, that the world was witnessing a similar massacre “by the Zionist regime in Gaza and Palestine.”

Some 150 works from 50 countries are on display at the contest, which began Saturday and is running for the next two weeks.

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-irans-holocaust-cartoon-contest-its-not-a-denial/

[King_David]

1. Of course the usual suspects are going to line up and support this filth...

David Duke , Medea Benjamin probably already bought their tickets.

[Eugene]

2. Netanyahu lashes out at Iran for 'mocking' Holocaust in cartoon contest

Source: Associated Press

Netanyahu lashes out at Iran for 'mocking' Holocaust in cartoon contest

Associated Press in Jerusalem
Sunday 15 May 2016 14.12 BST

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during the second world war. The Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one, he said.

A State Department spokesman, traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry in Saudi Arabia, expressed US concern about the contest, saying it should be “condemned by the authorities and civil society leaders rather than encouraged”.

Iran has long backed armed groups committed to Israel’s destruction and its leaders have called for it to be wiped off the map. Israel fears that Iran’s nuclear program is designed to threaten its very existence.

But Netanyahu said Israel opposed not only Iran’s belligerent policies, but its values.

“It denies the Holocaust, it mocks the Holocaust and it is also preparing another Holocaust,” Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet meeting. “I think that every country in the world must stand up and fully condemn this.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/15/netanyahu-iran-cartoon-contest-mocks-holocaust

[oberliner]

3. Netanyahu always takes it a step too far

Iran is not preparing another Holocaust. Everybody needs to stop with the Nazi comparisons.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Agreed. Too much hyperbole on all sides.

[Little Tich]

5. Yet another idiot bringing up the Holocaust analogy.

It's sad in so many ways...