Ben Cohen @ The Tower:
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| Bernard Bouton, France |
JNS.org
– A haredi Jew looks into a mirror and sees the face of Adolf Hitler
gazing back at him. The walls and guard towers of Auschwitz are squeezed
into a snow shaker, with flying dollar bills replacing the fake
snowflakes. Another haredi Jew waves a swastika-shaped fan at an Israeli
flag, which blows furiously atop a corpse draped in a Palestinian flag.
Not enough? There’s more. The gates of Auschwitz, adorned with the
deadly motto “Arbeit Macht Frei,” swing open to reveal the Al-Aqsa
mosque, which sits on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, devils’ horns jutting from his forehead, gives a
Nazi salute; instead of his usual business suit, he wears a bloodstained
brown uniform, with a Star of David rendered as a swastika decorating
the sleeve.
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| Pablo Utiel, France |
These are just a selection of the entries submitted to
Iran’s latest Holocaust cartoon contest,
currently on display in Tehran at the none-too-subtly named Islamic
Propaganda Organization. By and large, the cartoons are crudely drawn,
in keeping with the themes that they promote. [...]
This is not a recent development, nor is it related to Israeli policy
or anything Israel actually does. Anti-Semitism among Iran’s Islamists
in fact precedes the creation of the State of Israel. In his excellent
book “Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold,”
German historian Matthias Kuentzel described the massive audience in
Iran for Radio Zeesen, a Nazi propaganda outlet that
broadcasted programming in Farsi. Among the listeners was the figurehead
of Iranian Islamism, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. According to
Kuentzel, Khomeini was an enthusiastic “connoisseur” of European
anti-Semitism. “They are liars and determined,” Khomeini wrote in a
tract entitled “The Islamic State.” There was also the following claim,
based on the same wretched fantasies that lead to Holocaust denial:
“We
see today that the Jews (may God curse them) have meddled with the text
of the Qur’an and have made certain changes in the Qur’ans they have
printed in the occupied territories.”
These same views prevail among Iran’s leaders today, no matter what
[Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad] Zarif says. Indeed, to disavow Khomeini would be unthinkable in the
current context, as demonstrated by the recent election of Ayatollah
Ahmed Jannati as head of the “Assembly of Experts,” a key ruling body
that chooses the supreme leader.
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Luc Descheemaeker Belgium, won
honorable mention |
Jannati is a boilerplate fanatic who leads chants of “Death to
America” and “Death to Israel” at Friday prayers. It was Jannati who, in
2009, backed then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blood-drenched
crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators. The regime that existed
in 2009 still exists today, with the same mechanisms of fearsome
repression at its disposal. It cannot be reformed, and certainly not
from within. But—heretical as it is to say this—it can, and should, be
overthrown.
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| Santiagu, Portugal |
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| Luca Ionel, Switzerland |
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| Thomas Losfeld, France |
Cartoons:
Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest
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