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The postcard depicting Holocaust victim Anne Frank in a kaffiyeh.
Last update - 23:37 27/01/2008
Dutch Jewish group slams image of Anne Frank wearing kaffiyeh
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tags: Anne Frank, Palestinians 

A Dutch Jewish organization last week condemned the distribution of a postcard showing a manipulated image of Anne Frank wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh, calling it "a tasteless falsification of history." The company that published the postcard described it as "an idyllic image of peace."

The Hague-based Centre For Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) called on cinemas, cafes and other businesses to ban the postcard, which has been distributed for the past two weeks free of charge across the Netherlands by T-shirt and postcard maker Boomerang.

"In Holland, Anne Frank is a distinct symbol of the Holocaust and persecution," CIDI's public relations coordinator, Tuvit Shlomi, told Haaretz. "The red-and-white kaffiyeh symbolizes Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation. We find this link offensive, false and unacceptable."
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In a press release about the postcard, CIDI said the image suggested the Palestinians were persecuted like the Jews during World War II. "Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in a conflict. The Palestinians are not persecuted, there are no extermination camps and there is no genocide," CIDI wrote.

Boomerang's chief editor, Pascale Bosboom, told Haaretz that the artist responsible for the image - who is known only as T. - combined the two symbols "to create an idealistic image in which both states exist alongside one another in peace."

In its official announcement, Boomerang said it agrees with CIDI that the historical connection CIDI mentioned "must not be made." Boomerang, the statement said, recognizes that the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during World War II is nothing like that of the Palestinians.
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  1.   tactics may have changed, but opression has not 14:14  |  Lowerthan 27/01/08
  2.   Those Echoes of Nazism 14:25  |  Clickfool 27/01/08
  3.   Holland 14:28  |  Cpt. Yossarian 27/01/08
  4.   leftists have no understanding of how the world works 14:40  |  don 27/01/08
  5.   Chuzpah untopped Mr. Bosboom!!! Your excusion in pretence 14:52  |  Karl 27/01/08
  6.   Freedom of expression 15:09  |  Stella 27/01/08
  7.   THIS IS FREEDOM...NO? YOU ONLY LIKE IT WHEN IF OFFENDS MUSLIMS! 15:15  |  TrippleJump 27/01/08
  8.   The Palestinians ARE persecuted, THERE IS a slow motion genocide 15:20  |  Eric 27/01/08
  9.   The Dutch 15:25  |  Richard 27/01/08
  10.   Kudos to Freedom of Speech & Expression 15:28  |  POP 27/01/08
  11.   I like the picture 15:39  |  Dutch woman 27/01/08
  12.   Yeah, Holocaust was a conflict between Aryan race and the Jewish 16:15  |  American 27/01/08
  13.   cartoons 16:23  |  Bontenbal 27/01/08
  14.   # 2 Clicky ....you need to find some perspective 16:24  |  Lynn 27/01/08
  15.   Well, they want everything else the Jews have 16:25  |  Ben 27/01/08
  16.   #8 -TrippleJump 16:31  |  RF 27/01/08
  17.   Clickfool`s presumptions 16:50  |  Peter 27/01/08
  18.   SHOAH MAKES PALESTINIAN PLIGH MORE DISTURBING 17:42  |  Renn 27/01/08
  19.   write it in ballpoint 17:49  |  sullivan 27/01/08
  20.   #1 17:49  |  howard 27/01/08
  21.   This Talkback is a microcosm of what is wrong with the world 17:53  |  Gili 27/01/08
  22.   Rachel Corrie 18:10  |  Gilbert 27/01/08
  23.   The Dutch... 18:15  |  Dutch clown 27/01/08
  24.   Use copyright laws and stop it 18:34  |  Ilan 27/01/08
  25.   Will We Burn Down Europe? 18:44  |  Tex 27/01/08
  26.   #22 Gili and double standards 18:45  |  Chris Linthwaite 27/01/08
  27.   Ilan from Ariel, leave it 18:52  |  Gil 27/01/08
  28.   Freedom of Expression 19:05  |  leon 27/01/08
  29.   Stella 19:09  |  David Israel 27/01/08
  30.   POP #11 19:12  |  David Israel 27/01/08
  31.   Lintwit: A Double Dose of Dumb 19:21  |  Tex 27/01/08
  32.   Lowerthan (and Boomerang`s Images) 19:23  |  Brad 27/01/08
  33.   Anne Frank kaffiyeh 19:34  |  ema 27/01/08
  34.   Dutch symbol of Drugs, Prostitutes and STDS 19:41  |  Tom 27/01/08
  35.   Disgusting Provocation 19:43  |  MarkC 27/01/08
  36.   The question is 19:53  |  Danite 27/01/08
  37.   Why not 20:11  |  Baz Mann 27/01/08
  38.   Baz Mann 20:27  |  MarkC 27/01/08
  39.   #23 Gilbert 20:35  |  MarkC 27/01/08
  40.   It is definitely in bad taste but I think that giving this artist 20:38  |  Judith, Haifa 27/01/08
  41.   Remember on whose side Jerusalem`s mufti was 21:21  |  Dan 27/01/08
  42.   ATTENTION, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: 21:28  |  theo van gogh 27/01/08
  43.   wjewry, according to some p., are less 21:38  |  bozhidar balkas 27/01/08
  44.   Clickfool/Lowerthan 21:42  |  jenny 27/01/08
  45.   # 33 Brad, you, poor soul 22:21  |  Ben Othman 27/01/08
  46.   The card should be allowed, freedom of speech 22:36  |  Zaki 27/01/08
  47.   About half-right 22:39  |  Colin Wright 27/01/08
  48.   Anne Frank was a victime of well palnned 22:40  |  Abu Yusuf 27/01/08
  49.   re #16 `Well, they want everything else the Jews have` 22:40  |  Colin Wright 27/01/08
  50.   re #36 `Disgusting provocation` 22:43  |  Colin Wright 27/01/08
  51.   I salute Haaretz 23:18  |  Zaki 27/01/08
  52.   abu yusuf.... 23:18  |  nmf 27/01/08
  53.   jackal...no,you don`t......anne frank was not a violent girl 23:22  |  mmm 27/01/08
  54.   response 23:40  |  proud jewish 27/01/08
  55.   Anne Frank 23:47  |  Dik 27/01/08
  56.   #16 23:51  |  proud jewish 27/01/08
  57.   for such concerning muslims,be sure of a fatuwa. what a coward! 00:17  |  slim 28/01/08
  58.   Eric on "Slow Motion Genocide", a new PR slogan. 3rd Try 00:24  |  Ian 28/01/08
  59.   Methods differ aims same 00:25  |  Truth 28/01/08
  60.   Disgusting 00:27  |  judith 28/01/08
  61.   anne frank 00:29  |  Michal 28/01/08
  62.   Just another tactic of twisting the facts 00:36  |  Nechama 28/01/08
  63.   Since they do not have an Ann Frank of their own 00:37  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/01/08
  64.   Dutch woman #12 00:40  |  Nechama 28/01/08
  65.   54Collin, Happy Anne Frank died of hunger in concentration camp? 00:40  |  Rob 28/01/08
  66.   Re-#22 LAND 00:42  |  friend 28/01/08
  67.   So Stupid 00:44  |  Rightster 28/01/08
  68.   #53 response to#16 00:48  |  prod jewi sh 28/01/08
  69.   50Zaki The Pal leader, Husseini, made plans to do it 00:50  |  Rob 28/01/08
  70.   MarkC, @36, anna frank was not gassed but died from 00:53  |  vladimir 28/01/08
  71.   UN OWNS CAMPS 01:10  |  TOBIA 28/01/08
  72.   Proud Jewish 01:12  |  kiwi girl 28/01/08
  73.   Dan remember Fieval Polkes and Rudolph Kastner