A report from Al-Alam TV on the opening of the third International Holocaust Cartoon Contest in Tehran:
The exhibition features caricatures of Netanyahu, comparing him to Hitler and to ISIS terrorists. The organizer, Shojai Tabtabai, explains that the exhibition is "a response to the publication of cartoons by the French Charlie Hebdo magazine, which affronted the Prophet Muhammad, as well as an expression of [our opposition] to the massacres perpetrated against the Palestinian people."
That cash register with the 6,000,000 figure - 37 seconds in - now that's a piece of work...
There's something uniquely repulsive about the attempt to compare Israel - the "Zionist entity" - to Nazi Germany, or the suffering of the Palestinians to the Holocaust, or Netanyahu to Hitler. But that's the shameless nature of anti-Semitism now, and the concomitant demonisation of the Jewish homeland.
Shami Chakrabarti should look into this to see if could just possibly be antisemitic. Of course she should also look to see it it could be Islamophobic.
Posted by: Bob-B | May 17, 2016 at 12:37 PM
It would probably be Islamophobic to suggest it is antisemitic. Or something.
There was a truly appalling article in Haaretz a couple of days ago, equating Israel with Nazi Germany. I haven't got the link with me, I'll try and post it later. It was via Adam Holland on twitter. A really revolting piece of writing.
Mick,I completely agree with the whole of the last paragraph of the above post. There are all sorts of factors feeding into this, I think. Sadly, none of them is going to get better. Only worse.
Posted by: RY | May 17, 2016 at 12:59 PM
Why is mocking the holocaust an appropriate response to the hebdo cartoons? I guess anti-semitism has its own logic.
Posted by: Dom | May 17, 2016 at 01:43 PM