Posted on December 25, 2006 09:35 PM
Jews will immediately recognize these to be ordinary Chanuka Bears. When Jews are not being apes and pigs and need to hibernate for a long time they turn into these lovable creatures. These Bears are in fact the answer to a question the BBC recently posed: Why are Jews at the 'Holocaust denial' conference?
Posted on November 6, 2006 08:49 PM
Iran's competition for cartoons mocking the Holocaust drew a pitiful 204 entries from around the world and although Iranian newspapers announced the results of the competition they barely gave it any decent coverage. Not a single one even bothered to publish the winning cartoon pictured here.
Posted on May 25, 2006 10:39 AM
Last Tuesday the Iranian Cartoon Contest ended (here are the participants from 60 countries). Some of the entrants drawings are on this page. The winners will be announced shortly and I'll list them here.
if you've forgotten what this was all about here is my post from last February.
Posted on February 14, 2006 02:58 PM
Expatica, 13 Feb 2006,Anger in Iran over German football cartoonTEHRAN - The general secretary of the Iranian press association called Sunday for action over a football cartoon printed in a German newspaper showing the Iranian national team standing in a World Cup stadium with bomb belts strapped to their jerseys. Manuchehr Sandi called the cartoon, which was printed in the Friday edition of Berlin's Tagesspiegel, a "dirty joke" and in an interview with the ISNA news agency demanded the German...
Posted on February 13, 2006 05:51 PM
Here is a correction to my previous post: Here's how to enter holocaust cartoon contest. news.com.au, 14 Feb 2006Leunig denies cartoon entryCARTOONIST Michael Leunig has denied entering cartoons deemed "inappropriate" for publication in Australia in a contest launched in Iran, saying he has been "set up". The competition was launched by Iran's biggest-selling newspaper Hamshahri in retaliation for the caricatures of the prophet Mohammed that have enraged Muslims worldwide. Mr Leunig said he first heard that that some of his...
Posted on February 13, 2006 03:12 PM
I think most of the world is offensive. I find many things that the right and the left print is offensive. I find most primitive superstitions that interfere with my private life offensive. The whole of Islam is particularly offensive. However, I would never ask them to stop printing offensive cartoons. How else would we find out how they truly feel about Jews and the rest of the world if not for cartoons?
Posted on February 7, 2006 06:30 AM
Iran’s most popular daily newspaper, Hamshahri, is set to initiate a Holocaust cartoon contest in what it says is a response to cartoons disparaging Islam’s prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper.
