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HoloCartoons.com, an antisemitic Iranian website launched in August 2010, aims to mock and denigrate the Holocaust, on the premise that these events were completely fabricated by the Jews for their own nefarious purposes.
A visitor to the website, which has pages in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi, is greeted by the Pink Panther theme music, and informed that it is dedicated to those killed "under the pretext of the Holocaust." It features an e-book, "HoloCartoons," the preface to which reads, in part:"This book tends to denounce the conspicuous lie of the 'plan[n]ed murder of 6 million Jews during the Second World War' allegedly called 'Holocaust.' The lie that is so obvious that there is no need for any further explanation."
Visitors to HoloCartoons.com can also click on icons to view a series of antisemitic videos on Holocaust themes on the HoloCartoons YouTube channel.
According to the Iranian semiofficial news agency Fars, Iranian cartoonist Maziar Bijani, a founder of Holocartoons.com, said that its funding comes from an Iranian non-governmental cultural foundation.
In the past year, MEMRI has released a number of reports and video clips dealing with displays of antisemitism in Iran. Most of these displays appeared on websites either sponsored or authorized by the Iranian regime – including foreign language websites of the Iranian state broadcasting authority – that focus on Holocaust denial.
- Prior to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27, several Iranian websites published articles denying the Holocaust. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 3538, "In Advance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iranian 'Adolf Hitler Research Society' Website Shows How Holocaust Photos Were 'Doctored' By the Jews, and Iranian Website Publishes Series by French Holocaust Denier," January 26, 2011,http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4948.htm.
- The Iranian regime is officially approving and allowing neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial websites to operate under its auspices. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No, 3409, "Iranian Neo-Nazi, Holocaust Denial Websites Operate with Official Government Approval," November 30, 2010, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4799.htm.
- A May 2010 discussion on Iran's official Al-Alaam TV focused on Holocaust denial; see MEMRI TV Clip No. 2472: "Holocaust Denial Discussed on Iranian TV: There Were No Gas Chambers; You Cannot Squeeze 2,000 Jews into 100 Square Meters," May 5, 2010,http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2474.htm.
- In September 2008, Iran's official IRINN TV reported on the publication in Iran of a book of Holocaust cartoons; see MEMRI TV Clip No. 1879,http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1879.htm.
- Also, earlier this month, the Iranian news agency Fars reported that prominent Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben, head of the Adelaide Institute, had "praised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his key role in breaking the taboo on studying the reality of the Jewish holocaust." See The MEMRI Blog, April 6, 2011,http://www.thememriblog.org/antisemitism/blog_personal/en/36303.htm
Below are images from one of the HoloCartoons videos, published in August 2010. To view the video on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2903.htm.
Following that are the images and text from the HoloCartoons e-book, published in August 2010, in full, in the original English.
HoloCartoons: Images From a Video
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"HoloCartoons": The E-Book
To read the "Holocartoons"e-book, click here.
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