Iran daily to sponsor Holocaust cartoons; Israeli News Agency responds with contest of its own

Nazila Fathi in the International Herald Tribune:

A major Iranian newspaper is holding an international competition for cartoons about the Holocaust to retaliate for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper last year.

The daily Hamshahri, which is Iran's largest newspaper and is run by the capital's municipality, said the competition would be co-sponsored by the House of Caricatures, an exhibition hall for cartoons in Tehran.

The newspaper said further information would be announced next week.

The daily made it clear that the contest was being held to see whether freedom of expression extended to mocking Holocaust. It invited non-Iranian cartoonists to enter the contest.

More here.  And this from the Israel News Agency:

In response to Iran's best-selling newspaper announcing a competition to find the best cartoons about the Holocaust, the Israel News Agency launched an SEO - Internet search engine optimization marketing contest to prevent Iran news Websites from reaching top positions in Google.

"When I heard that a newspaper in Iran was now holding a cartoon contest on the Holocaust, I knew that SEO would be the most potent tool in combating it," said Joel Leyden, publisher of the Israel News Agency. "That 12 winners in Iran would have their Holocaust cartoons published and would receive two gold coins (worth about $140 each) as a prize, I donned my SEO Israel Defense Forces uniform, cocked and loaded my keyboard. There is no way that Iran will spit on the graves of over 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust."

The Israel News Agency is asking every SEO advertising marketing professional to create Web pages and optimize the keywords: "Iran Holocaust Cartoon Contest" in order to prevent the Iran newspapers, the enemies of Israel, the Jews, the Christians and Western democracy from attaining a high Google and Google News position. The SEO contestants will wrap these keywords around their comments of how Iran has sponsored Islam suicide bombing terror attacks against innocent men, women and children in Israel. Iran directly funds the activities of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbullah.

More here.

Comments

[Doug]

This is proof that the holocaust is a hoax, a giant lie used to to extort cash and sympathy from the dumb Goyim. If the holocaust had actually happened, it would be able to stand on its own merits and there would be more than heresay evidence in support of it. Further, it would certainly not need legislation, prison sentences and fraudulent actions, like the one proposed above, if in fact it had occurred as the exterminationists insist.

[fred]

How about an Internet search engine optimization contest against those that do not apparently believe in reciprocal "freedom of speech."

Link to the "Iran holocaust cartoon contest" with the keywords: "Israel zionist hypocritical cartoon tactics." Or whatever seems better. Weave in the PROVABLE FACTS of the 3 to 1 killings of Palestinians to Israelis civilians; the 200+ nuke bombs of the Zionists, etc.

[Robin]

Doug, please spare us your anti-Semitic fantasies. Go elsewhere.

[Archers]

Even all the Hollowoodcaust Museums-have reduced the 6 million to 1,500,000.Even that is tooooo much of B.S.
the red cross after the defeat-reported no mass killings or ovens or gas killings. Germany allowed Red cross into all the camps since 1939-and not one report of mass killings. These jews must be clowns-how is it possible-,when only 5.7 million Jews existed in all of Europe then?--Just like Whodeney--majic disappearance act.

[fred]

Robin,

To challenge and research the facts of the holocaust should not be grounds for attack. Most holocaust revisionists do not deny that Jews (and many others) suffered terribly under Nazism. Yet there are grounds for challenging the authenticity of the 6 million jewish dead, the use of gas chambers, etc. It is no less a holocaust if there were accurately a million jews dead from starvation and deprivation, vs falsely six million dead in gas chambers. To persist in a falsehood does no one any good. Let's get to the bottom of this once and for all, in am open forum that everyone, jews and non-jews alike.

And please do not call me anti-semitic. I am pro-truth and anti-*sshole.

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

Just go ahead, just go ahead. This is what we want.
He he he he heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Mark]

http://judicial-inc.biz/Romanoffs.htm " REL="nofollow">The execution of the Romanovs

[sam]

If the holohoax was true then are jews are so bent up of shape when anyone talks about it. I would like to talk about 28 million russian who perished in WWII or the 12 million people around the world who died when they never had anything to do with the european war. Many historian will tell you that WWII was started by Jew bankers anyway, so why should we honor their lie. The 6 million jews remains only in the head of the ignorant,,,most people now don't believe it anyway.

BTW, whatever the number, it wasn't enough anyway!

[Ned]

The confessions of an Israeli Keyboard Offence Volunteer stands out in the article: “ I donned my SEO Israel Defense Forces uniform, cocked and loaded my keyboard” says the intrepid keyboard defender, probably wearing a flack jacket, sporting a helmet, and crouching in a bunker.

Which brings us to the years of drivel that we all have been subject to by the various snotty nose little gits, geed up in the respective betar (google it and read on) Only to spout the same old and worn out clichés of anti Semite, Holocaust Denier, Nazi, etc. cutting and pasting copiously from the 'how to defend Israel Handbook' in an attempt to stifle any and all debate about the racist, malevolent, and murderous creed of Zionism.

The same vile Zionists perching on top of the contrived mountains of the dead bones, have only had to point to the piles of the imaginary bones of the supposed victims, to excuse the murder spree that they have been engaged in for the last sixty years, while busy stealing the lands, and chattel of the Palestinians.

Now that laws have not suppressed the truth, now that all the cutting and pasting is getting nowhere, now that all the screams of anti Semite, Holohoax Denier, Nazi are not cutting the mustard, these chosen clowns have decided to crap out the internet. Which highlights the propensity of the Zionists to spread their poxy conflict for a shitty sliver of land they insist to call theirs, in the hope of turning their evident defeat into victory.

Although those with greater awareness of the political shenanigans, will realise that these inept mercenaries have been tolerated so far, only due to the imperatives of the big oil. As reflected in the $2.5 billion aid set aside for the shitty little uncountry alone by latest Bu$h budget, while hush money budgeted for Egypt, and Jordan too (need these on board to protect the chosen clowns), costing the US tax payer 38% cut in education, and 36% cut in Medicare.

Finally stuff your Holocaust where sun don't shine, and start tearing your arse shouting anti Semite, time is up for all the lies that have been peddled as history, the dam is crumbling and beavers you cannot stop it. Heck the Schadenfreude in watching this train wreck in slow motion!

[Abbas Raza]

We at 3 Quarks Daily are shocked and saddened to see that our comments section has become a place for ridiculous anti-semitic propaganda to be spouted. While we disassociate ourselves from these extremely vile views, we will not delete the comments, nor shut them off, as we remain committed to the airing of all views, no matter how offensive. Comments with obscene language, however, will be deleted. So watch it.

[labelled anti semitic by zionists.pot calling the kettle black]

call me anti semitic or whatever else you want , but what stinks is the double standards. i think the "israelis" would see it as insensitive and provocative if somebody planned to build a museum of tolerance on the graves in auswitz or where ever else the so called six million are buried .how about if it was a museum to promote better understanding of the nazi's???

hmm i guess the hawks would be blaying for goyim blood... what israeli leaders and supporters are forgetting is they will reap what they sow in the middle east.
Zionists today are trying to promote and instigate the clash of civillisations (see the cartoon row,same newspaper refused to print christ attacking cartoons saying their readership would find them offensive) theory between the west and muslims ..

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-02-08T171451Z_01_L08408258_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS-DENMARK-JESUS.xml

for more truth about the holocaust look for an audio lecture on the internet by self loathing anti semitic jew called benjamin h friedman(freedman)

illegal in many eu countries to question the holocaust but freedom of speech is evoked when questioning god ,defiling religions and their respective messangers ...

Israel plans to build 'museum of tolerance' on Muslim graves
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Published: 09 February 2006

Skeletons are being removed from the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem to make way for a $150m (£86m) "museum of tolerance" being built for the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

Palestinians have launched a legal battle to stop the work at what was the city's main Muslim cemetery. The work is to prepare for the construction of a museum which seeks the promotion of "unity and respect among Jews and between people of all faiths".

Israeli archaeologists and developers have continued excavating the remains of people buried at the site - which was a cemetery for at least 1,000 years - despite a temporary ban on work granted by the Islamic Court, a division of Israel's justice system. Police have been taking legal advice on whether the order is legally binding. The Israeli High Court is to hear a separate case brought by the Al Aqsa Association of the Islamic Movement in Israel next week.

The project, which a spokesman said had been conceived in partnership with the Jerusalem municipality and the Israeli government, was launched at a ceremony in 2004 by a cast of dignitaries ranging from Ehud Olmert, who is currently the acting Prime Minister, to the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre declined to comment yesterday and has had no role in the project.

Durragham Saif, the lawyer who brought the Islamic Court petition on behalf of three Palestinian families, Al Dijani, Nusseibeh and Bader Elzain, all of whom have members buried at the cemetery, said: "It's unbelievable, it's immoral. You cannot build a museum of tolerance on the graves of other people. Imagine this kind of thing in the [United] States or England. And this is the Middle East where events are sensitive. If this goes ahead in this way it is going to cause the opposite thing to tolerance."

Mr Saif said he had written to the Israeli State Attorney, Menachem Mazuz, seeking police enforcement of the original order. He said on a visit to the site he had entered three out of five tents where excavations were being carried out. "I was shocked to see open graves and tens of whole skeletons there," he said.

Ikrema Sabri, the Mufti of Jerusalem, demanded a halt to the excavations and said the Muslim religious authorities had not been consulted on the dig. Saying that the cemetery was in use for 15 centuries and that friends of the Prophet Mohamed were buried there, the Mufti declared: "There should be a complete cessation of work on the cemetery because it is sacred for Muslims."

Under Israel's "absentee property" law the cemetery was taken over by the Custodian of Absentee Property after the 1948 war. Mr Saif said the Custodian had no right to sell the cemetery to the Jerusalem municipality in 1992. While parties to the work are resting part of their case on what they say was an 1894 ruling by the then Sharia court that the sanctity of a cemetery could be lifted, Mr Sabri said that ruling meant that only a Muslim could make such a decision.

Osnat Goaz, a spokeswoman for the Israel Antiquities Authority, which is carrying out the excavations, said it was common in Jerusalem to build on cemeteries. Adding that in such cases the bones were reburied, she said: "Israel is more crowded with ancient artefacts than any other country in the world. If we didn't build on former cemeteries, we would never build."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article344233.ece

[mike]

It cracks me up the way people get so worked up when the holocaust is questioned.People act as though the Iranian president and others are the first to question the holocaust and the jews in general.Check out what George Washington and Benjamin Franklin said about jews,I guess they were crazy too.

http://www.missionislam.com/nwo/usarulerslist.htm

[fario]

This is proof that the holocaust is a hoax, a giant lie used to to extort cash and sympathy from the dumb Goyim. If the holocaust had actually happened, it would be able to stand on its own merits and there would be more than heresay evidence in support of it. Further, it would certainly not need legislation, prison sentences and fraudulent actions, like the one proposed above, if in fact it had occurred as the exterminationists insist

[fario]

Zionist Manipulation Behind CARTOON.

The fact that the editors behind the anti-Islamic images claim to be exercising free speech while refusing to address Europe's strict censorship laws regarding discussion of the Holocaust and the ongoing imprisonment of historical revisionists reveals the existence of a more sinister agenda behind the provocative cartoons.

"Agents of certain persuasion" are behind the egregious affront to Islam in order to provoke Muslims, Professor Mikael Rothstein of the University of Copenhagen told the BBC. The key "agent" is Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of JP, who commissioned cartoonists to produce the blasphemous images and then published them in Denmark's leading morning paper last September.

The International Herald Tribune, which reported on the offensive cartoons on January 1, noted that even the liberalism of Rose had its limits when it came to criticism of Zionist leaders and their crimes. Rose also has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons behind the "war on terror."

Rose traveled to Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con ideologue who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes, who compares "militant Islam" with fascism and communism.

FULL STORY HERE :
http://www.rense.com/general69/zz.htm

[Me Here]

The inbred Yids are getting worried, cause if the Iranian Oil Bourse starts up as its supposed to on the 20th March, It wont be long after that the JEWSA economy will start to crumble as everyone ditches their toilet paper worth US currency in favour of trading Oil for REAL money namely Euro's, so when the JEWSA goes down the sh*tchute, there goes all that FREE cash the yids get handed every year, and big brother wont be there to back them up anymore ..... boohoo.

To whoever I loved the quote HOLOHOAX ... top marks for that one to funny ...

[Rabbi Sheney]

Stupid shiksas and goyim

We will bleed you dry while you send your children to fight our wars! And there is nothing you can do about, so whine all you want about our Holocaust scam...It keeps the blood and money coming.
Next target: Iran. You goyim are not worth a fingernail of a Jew.

[Dovy]

Please enjoy studying a website that distinguish between authentic Judaism and the abomination known as Zionism. Thank G-d the Zionist state is crumbling day by day along with all their stupid propaganda machinery that controls the media. Let it be known that what people call the "Jewish" State is merely a state of demonism that has successfully brainwashed virtually the entire Jewish People! Most Jews are intoxicated (in Yiddish we say, "farshikert") by the Zionist ideology and their exaggerations about what happened in WWII. But this has to change!!

[Anti-Zionist]

The Zionists are the problem, not the Jews. They are Jewish like Bush is a Christian: namely. Zionists start yelling "anti-semite" immediately if someone points a finger at them. They are using the Jews as a shield against critizism, and it's working, sad but true.

So forget religion and race, judge people by their actions. The Zionists actions speak for themselves. Check out www.jewsagainstzionism.com for example...

Peace!!!

[PHIL THEJEAU]

this time the pogroms are going to be GLOBAL.......every jew a PEARL.

[Josh Martin]

We are on the brink of WWIII. If The U.S.A attacks Iran, you will then know that this has nothing to do with democracy and freedom of speech and more to do with a religious war and the U.S attempt to wage a war with Muslims. Bush is a mad man and needs to be impeached. The guy is out to fight the whole world and is becoming more and more a bully. Don't be suprised if he attacks Syria just because they don't like the fact Syria isn't doing anything to close the border to insurgents. The funny thing is, the U.S.A can't even stop illegal mexicans from crossing over the border, yet they want Syria to stop insurgents from crossing over? What's even more funny, Bush calls Syria one of the axis of evil and then asks the Syrians for help in stopping insurgent crossovers. That's like insulting someone and then aksing them for their help.

[Raja Ismara]

We use
fan to cool down or stoke fire

[morgan meis]

It's truly depressing to read these comments and realize how much vile thinking is lurking out there among the riff-raff. But I stand behind my fellow editor Abbas in keeping them posted here if for no other reason than to pay tribute to the principle of openness and tolerance to which all of us involved in 3Quarks are committed.
Secondly, I have to believe that the vast majority of reasonably intelligent human beings can only be further disgusted by what they are reading. Sometimes when bigots and demagogues are given enough rope they merely hang themselves. The problem is that we proponents of tolerance and cosmopolitanism take 'ropes' and 'hanging' only as metaphors within verbal discourse. I fear that some of the wretches who have poked there heads into this comment section would be rather more literal about it.

morgan

[aguy109]

I dont think its wise to allow such comments to be posted. Every time u give these Nazis a place to exhibit on the web, especially a quality site which deals with art literature and science as well as politics, u help them. Let them stay in their litle holes.
By the way, you have here cast iron justification for the Israel and the Zionist. Clearly we Jews need to defend ourselves and protect our childresn from these people. Those who deny the Holocaust are always self contradictory, for they always show how clearly they themselves approve of it.

[Ned]

Condescending upon the comments, while regurgitating elitist drivel ad nauseam, concluding in an inexplicable leap of logic to self congratulations all around for the un-riff-raff, and condemnations all around for the rest of the masses at large mainly the riff-raff.

Firstly, the derision of these authors is a mere trickle, considering the tsunami of misanthropy in vogue, as in evidence; the discount of the contribution of the participants, solely based on the basis that these inputs have not fallen within the anticipated yield of the matrix of expectations, with intent to instantiate yet another bout of unconscious drivel pointed at the recalcitrant revisionists, and the excitable Johnny Foreigner.

Secondly, intelligence (whatever it may be) is not a commodity, quality, and or entity that the 'oh so' sophisticated have the copyright of. Further, lambasting the authors of the comments, somehow cannot obtain Modus Tollen!

Thirdly, the magnanimity on display in enduring the 'vile comments' that have sullied this board, must be commended, since the freedom of expression being upheld is paramount, however this magnanimity somehow does not extend to suffering in silence, since there are the threats of all manner and kind out there (ADL, etc.), which herald a quick disclaimer (not an act of self censorship, not at all, not at all)!

Fourthly, only through recourse to logical constructs can the counter arguments be forwarded, therefore ad hominem cannot be considered as any counter point.

Fifthly, if there is no appetite for the realities on offer by the Zeitgeist, then perhaps a long essay on the fineries of some obscure Verdi opera ought to be contemplated.

Finally, mistakenly there exists the dogma that; those who control the present control the past, those who control the past control the future, since this can only be obtained upon isolation and separation, globalisation of poverty, has instantiated the modalities of exchange of ideas, hence the battle of ideas taking place on this board are reflective of the demise of the supply side transactions that have so far marred the progress of the humanity, solely due to the imperatives of a handful reactionaries who can barely hold onto their water, never mind controlling the enormous masses of the riff-raff that I and others are proud to belong to.

PS. Israel this dangerous parasitic uncountry, exists because Balfour saw fit to introduce empire on the cheap, although there never is any debate about Balfour giving away lands without people in Tasmania, Canada, Africa, and or South America, since all these places did not have the rock oil and were not under the control of Lord Balfour's holdings. Hence, there is no other reason for this uncountry to exist, and within the coming next few decades when the oil has finished in the Middle East, there shall not exist any need for the killing and murder spree of the colonial mercenaries, and their Judenstaat.

[Boyd]

After taking the time to carefully review the comments posted to this areticle it is clear that most of the respondants have skipped the issue of the article and jumped straight in the Jewish versus the rest of the world frenzy. While it is important to allow readers a chance to comment on an articles impact on them some commentors change the dynamics of an article so drastically that the comments section cease's to function as a forum for discussion. This oddly enough then allows the article and the comments to become the fodder of arguments on racism, religious hatered, geographical prejudices and more.

Summing up my thoughts point out that even I have moved off the articles point and have fallen in with all the others by posting comments off target. It therefore is annoying to me that I can see it happening and yet can't resist the urge to comment on the plethora of off target comments.

Well simply color me stupid!

[Mike]

The IMT lampshades were a fraud, the human soap was a fraud, the shrunken heads were a fraud, Katyn was a fraud, the 4 million at Auschwitz was a fraud.

Is it not possible the gas chambers are a fraud as well?

No I'm not a neo Naaaazi, nor an anti semite, nor a bigot, just a skeptic searching for the truth.

[Gary]

There is a wide line between “freedom of speech” and “incitement”.
You do not yell fire in a movie theatre - that is not freedom of speech.
Those from Iran and other notable Muslim terrorists can find many excuses to become violent when Danish cartoons make fun of Muhammed, but yet the same people remain quiet during and after 9/11. They can spit daily on Christ and Judism in their cartoons and call us “infidels” - yet we do not riot. We only ask for peace, respect and tolerance. The FM of Denmark has proved that by taking out a Google adwords campaign.

I applaud Joel Leyden, publisher of the Israel News Agency, for collecting all of the Holocaust cartoons now coming out of Iran and noting on each and every one of them the facts of the Holocaust. Leyden says yes to freedom of speech by uploading these cartoons with factual notes. Leyden is truly the winner of this cartoon contest or should I say democracy is. Is there democracy in Iran or Syria?
No - just blind hate for Western democratic values.

And why do some many Muslims protest over cartoons?
Because their leaders pay them to get out into the street and keep them in power. How much are we now paying cartoonists in Iran, Syria and around the world for designing inciteful cartoons on the Holocaust which took the lives of Jews, Christians and Muslims?
12,000 dollars!

Shame on the Muslims who use the words “freedom of speech” to incite others to violence and murder.

Leyden was correct and brave in saying that he was "putting on his IDF uniform" as Israel is at war. With Islam terror bombers blowing up children on buses, in restuarants and shopping centers. With the Iran Hizbullah launching Katusha rokcets from Lebanon and Hamas throwing Qassam missiles from Gaza. Without the Israel Defense Forces, there would be no Israel. Israel and the IDF are democracy's insurance policy that genocide, a holocaust of over a million people will never happen again.

Lastly, I am now going to follow Leyden’s words of advice by typing the keywords for which we all should: “incitement, hate, iran, islam, terror, beheading, daniel pearl, 9/11, barcelona bombings, turkey car bombs, george w. bush, ariel sharon, lebanon, syria, hamas, oil backed terrorism, saudi arabia, suicide bus bombers, blowing up children in restaurants, freedom of speech, israel defense forces and denmark.”

[Nancy]

Leyden has gone where the ADL did not.
Hats off to this media and SEO professional!

[Say NO to war with Iran]

Hey people, please stop the hate there are too many people here willing to attack each other on the basis of what someone else has said, if you put this much effort into sorting out problems instead of creating them then maybe we would have so much strife.