[lbo-talk] Moroccan wins Iran's Holocaust cartoon contest

[joanna]

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>> Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> The Holocaust does not justify Israeli policy, no question about it.  
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Of course it does. At least, that's what we're continually told. If 
there had not been a Holocaust, the zionists would have no moral claim 
to a state.


>> But millions of Jews were killed.
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So were many more millions of others, but there seems to be no foreign 
policy built around them.


>> That shouldn't be denied, and no  one should make excuses for denying it.
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Agreed.


>> The Danish cartoons were  stupid and deliberately offensive, but they 
>> didn't kill anyone. 
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Neither did the Arab cartoons. Cartoons don't kill, but they do make 
killing by other means more acceptable. The cliche of the Arab cockroach 
terrorist would not have become such if we did not countenance this type 
of humor as normative.


>> (Some  rioting hotheads may have killed people, but that's another 
>> story.)  There's just no symbolic equivalence at all. 
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Well, sometimes we disagree.

Joanna


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