There is instead a drawing of a Jew with a very large nose, a nose so large it obscures his entire head. Across his chest is the word Holocaust. Another drawing shows a vampire wearing a big Star of David drinking the blood of Palestinians. A third shows Ariel Sharon dressed in a Nazi uniform, emblazoned not with swastikas but with the Star of David.
"It is not that we are against a specific religion," said the show's curator, Seyed Massoud Shojaei, making a distinction that visitors to the show are certain to question. "We are against repression by the Israelis."
Mr. Shojaei said none of the images were intended as anti-Jewish, only anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli — and of course, anti-American and anti-British. As evidence, he said Iranians lived peacefully with this country's Jews.
They are not against a specific religion. Just Jews and Israel.
For all those who are supportive of questioning the holocaust (and I know that there are lots of you on Newsvine, judging from previous articles, posts and comments on the subject), those who claim that anyone who connects anti-Israel and anti-Jewish are doing so with no basis, and those who have no problem condemning the connection of Jews to Israel as being racist while maintaining that your position is completely devoid of racism, it looks like you are in good company with Iran and Ahmadinejad.
(Oh, and for some reason I doubt there are going to be violent flag-burning protests outside of Iranian embassies all over the world, led by irate Jews calling out "Death to Iran" in response to the insult made to the Jewish religion. In their effort at "exposing what some here see as Western hypocrisy" they have done exactly the opposite - they have shown exactly how repressive their culture is in comparison to those that they are so eager to condemn)



