IRAN'S HOLOCAUST CARTOON EXHIBIT FLOPS

Holocaust Cartoon Exhibition Flops, Foreigners More Anti-Semitic Than Iranians? (NYSun)
"An exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust, some suggesting it was fabricated or exaggerated, has been a flop in Tehran. It drew audiences of fewer than 300 a day in its first week and now, three weeks after sparking international furore when it opened, attracts just 50 people a day," the Independent reports.

Most of those approached in central Tehran said they had not heard of the exhibition and insisted the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis was a historical fact. "I'm sure the Holocaust was true -- I've heard all about it from newspapers and television," said a housewife from a religious family. "I don't know why some say it didn't happen."

Shahram Rezaei, an Iranian cartoonist, drew Nazi soldiers laying a paper chain in a mass grave, implying that they were faking the deaths of Jews. Some depictions drew heavily upon anti-Semitic stereotypes ...

Thousands of foreigners have visited the exhibition's website at www.irancartoon.com, some of them engaging in angry debate. A conference on the Holocaust is planned in Tehran for October. It is also likely to garner more attention outside Iran than in the country.

The paper reports that "The exhibition followed a Holocaust cartoon competition designed to show Western double standards in freedom of speech." Another newspaper apologizing for anti-Semitism. Ignored is that anti-Semitism in the Arab media was taking place long before some European newspaper published cartoons of the prophet.

BY THE WAY, HAS THE MEDIA COMMENTED ON THE DOG THAT DIDN'T BARK? UNLIKE MUSLIMS RESPONDING TO THE CARTOONS DEPICTING MOHAMMED IN THAT DANISH NEWSPAPERS, JEWS HAVEN'T LAUNCHED MURDEROUS TERRORIST ATTACKS IN REPONSE TO THE IRANIAN CARTOONS.