Holocaust cartoon content 'expresses hatred toward oppressors'

Iran’s Culture Ministry today lauded its competition of cartoons on the Holocaust as an expression of hatred against oppressors.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry, echoing widespread international condemnation, deplored that Tehran had joined the “obscene chorus” of Holocaust denial.

Iran yesterday awarded a Moroccan artist the top prize in an exhibition of cartoons against the Holocaust, saying it wanted to emphasise that Palestinians were the indirect victims of the Nazi’s killing of 6 million Jews in Europe during the Second World War.

“Palestinians have been victim of a deceptive history by Zionists,” Iran’s Culture Minister Hossein Saffar Harandi was quoted as saying by the Kayhan conservative daily yesterday.

“The cartoonists expressed their hate against oppressors and their love toward (Palestinian) victims in their works,” the Culture Minister said.