Winning

Iran’s Holocaust Cartoon Contest announced the winners at a closing ceremony on Monday. Here’s the winner:

Look closely at the drawer: the words are “Shoah Business.” The thing at the top is the front entrance to Auschwitz.

Comments

10 responses to “Winning”

  1. iknklast Avatar

    That’s disgusting. That’s all I have to say about that.

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    All there is to say, really.

  3. thebewilderness Avatar
    thebewilderness

    Look at the register key.

  4. justinr Avatar

    They only do this to troll the Israelis. If I were a news editor I would give them any publicity by reporting on it.

  5. Myrhinne Avatar

    justinr – That’s certainly one approach but many editors would want to reveal how much anti-Semitism there really is.

  6. zubanel Avatar

    Just goes to show, talent and character have nothing to do with each other.

  7. Anat Avatar

    Another opportunity to post Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoon Contest. Because nobody is going to outdo Israelis in antisemitism.

    Illustrator Amitai Sandy announced the contest on the website of his Tel Aviv-based graphic arts company on February 14, 2006, stating, “We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”

    (From here.)

  8. VorianK Avatar

    Still no flurry of death threats for the cartoonist, and no Iranian flags burning in the street. How helpful of Iran to remind us that kind of violent response to cartoons is mainly coming from their own religion.

  9. sailor1031 Avatar

    Well they got one thing right even if they didn’t mean to – as far as the SS was concerned Auschwitz was all about money. From the lucrative construction contracts to build the Auschwitz camps, the selling of slave labour to numerous german companies, the smelting of gold from victims teeth by Degussa, the sale of human hair (still containing traces of Zyklon-B) to Davistan AG, the theft of victims property for shipping back to Germany (the so-called “Kanada” warehouse operation), the arresting and liquidation of victims so the SS could take over their properties and businesses to sell to German companies; JHC they even sold 150 women prisoners to Bayer (member of IG Farben group) for 170RM each for medical experimentation.

  10. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Himmler’s cash cow…