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February 9, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=381&PID=0&IID=1495&TTL=Ahmadinejad,_Iran,_and_Holocaust_Manipulation:_Met

Ahmadinejad, Iran, and Holocaust Manipulation: Methods, Aims, and Reactions

[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs] Manfred Gerstenfeld - During the riots about the Danish Mohammed cartoons in February 2006, the leading Iranian daily Hamashahri announced a Holocaust-cartoon competition. Many of the over two hundred cartoons selected from 1,100 entries were from non-Muslim countries. Holocaust inversion was a frequent theme. Most other main anti-Semitic motifs, such as demonization of the Jews, deicide, conspiracy theories of world domination, blood libel, infanticide, and zoomorphism, were represented. The genocidal attacks on Israel and the distortion of Holocaust history should be seen as part of Ahmadinejad's overall political agenda concerning the West and Israel. (See 11 Holocaust cartoons in this report.)

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