American citizens enter Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest
14 March 2006
March 14, 2006
Six Americans have reportedly taken part in an Iranian newspaper’s Holocaust cartoon contest. One such caricature shows an Israeli soldier pointing a gun at a Palestinian’s head with the words, “What has Ariel Sharon learned from the Holocaust?” Mike Flugennock, the cartoon’s creator, sent an e-mail to the "Associated Press" denying that the cartoon was anti-Semitic. “It specifically addresses policies of the Israeli state with regard to its behavior in Palestine, and their similarities to the strategies employed by the Nazi regime in Warsaw and elsewhere,” he wrote. The Iranian newspaper launched the contest after some Western newspapers reprinted controversial cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
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