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

[joanna]

Thank you Yoshie.  So far as I can see, most of the cartoons refer to 
the Holocaust as something that is also being perpetrated on the 
Palestinians or as something that is being used as a shield for the 
aggression of the zionist state.

Joanna

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> On 11/2/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> >> That shouldn't be denied, and no  one should make excuses for 
>> denying it.
>> >
>> Agreed.
>
>
> I got around to taking a look at the prize-winning cartoons.  The
> cartoon by the Moroccan cartoonist in the headline, Derkaoui Abdellah
> who won the top prize, doesn't deny the Holocaust, nor do most others:
> <http://www.irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/index.htm>.
>
> A few of them, do, though: the ones by the unnamed French cartoonist,
> Shahram Rezai, and Naji Benaji.
>
> It should be also noted that one of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad
> cartoons doesn't mock Muslims for their faith and actually is a
> criticism of Islamophobia: see the sixth one from the top
> <http://cryptome.org/muhammad.htm>.
>