Mendacious Iranian Malice

"[The] contest and exhibition intends to display the West's double standard behaviour toward freedom of expression as it allows sacrilege of Islamic sanctities."
Fars News Agency, Iran

"If the West says that freedom of speech has no borders then why don't they let historians and experts properly research the Holocaust?"
House of Cartoons prompt, Tehran

"It ridicules one of the darkest events in human history, and it cheapens the death of millions of Jews who were murdered."
"The horrors of the Holocaust are still fresh in the collective memory."
Ron Prosor, Israeli ambassador to the the United Nations

Iranian Holocaust cartoon (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)

Just as the Islamic State terrorists take great pleasure in presenting their appalling atrocities, beheading helpless people, caging and burning to death others, lining up those they capture as enemies of their caliphate and slaughtering them en masse, as video entertainment pieces posing and succeeding as their own especial brand of public relations stunts, the Islamic Republic of Iran, yet another terror-led entity, relishes its annual mockery of the Holocaust.

Of course there exists ample carefully chronicled German documents whose contents more than offer ample proof of the extent and depth of the mass atrocity of the Third Reich Final Solution. Just as there is the first-hand accounts of death camp liberators when the Allies won the Second World War over the Axis cabal. There are the exhibits which the death camps themselves proffer, their chemical 'shower' rooms, their massive ovens and smokestacks that once belched the black smoke of crematoria remains over Europe.

And there are the museums in many countries of the world with their documentation, but above all the massive piles of human hair, clothing, and other remnants gained in depriving millions of people of their lives, stripping them naked to make use of everything that could be converted to use at a time of wartime scarcity; including bones for soap-making and human skin for book bindings. The roll-call of men, women and children in the guest list of the Angel of Death.

Photographs and note-taking, statistics and above all, the experiments whose conclusions could never have been gained without using helpless prisoners as guinea pigs in medical-scientific experiments of horrific intent and conclusion. Yet hatred exists of such magnitude that scorn is heaped upon the massive suffering of humankind in genocidal madness, giving pleasure to those who spurn compassion and court derision as a weapon.

Organizers in Tehran are prepared to stage their Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest in May. Global anti-Semitism will have reason for celebration. There will be an exhibition mounted to feature many of 839 "artworks" submitted from ambitious Jew-haters in a contest representing artists of over 50 countries vying for the honour of having their very personal anti-Semitic originality singled out and admired.

Motifs of Holocaust denial were rife in the first contest of its kind held in2006. A Moroccan enjoyed the distinction of submitting the winning cartoon, showing Israel building a separation barrier around the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem, itself built over the twice-destroyed historical Temple of Solomon, the most sacred symbol of ancient Judaism. Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delighted in disparaging the very thought of the reality of the Holocaust.

"We put it forward at the global level [myth of the Holocaust]. That broke the spine of the western  capitalist regime", he gloated delusionally. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted "the man who was perceived to be denying it is now gone", which hasn't held up Tehran's staging of a repeat of the original Holocaust-denying international event, inviting participation from the global community of Jew-haters.