Iran launches cartoon website aimed at questioning the Holocaust

Thats hardly "Iran" in its entirity, a nation of 79 million human beings. Why do you keep doing this? Are you playing ignorant or are you trying to build rage and anger with the low simple minded groups of people. I had higher expectations of this newspaper. Either way, the Iranian site is crap, the holocaust happend and is a tragedy. Behalf of our people, I apologize.

Iran is a trouble maker who doesnt want peace.why bringing up an irritable event.

That's like saying any website made in the US is sponsored by the US gov't. Ridiculous

This is getting pretty old by now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/amitai/105741762/

Just another reminder why the Western world and others in the region cannot let Iran acquire nuclear weaponry. The Iranian leadership and its supporters are incapable of appreciating reality and acting in a civilized manner. They are driven by religious fervor and hatred on a scale that obfuscates rational throught and threatens the civilized world. I hope the Western governments make note of these sick thought processes in fashioning a response to Iran's nuclear program and current leadership.

After all, Muhammad decided to steal the Jewish religion and claim it as his own by declaring himself prophet. And besides, for them, a lie is not a problem because its only to infidels and in that case even killing them is ok.

Israel threatens to attack Iran using weapons. Iran attacks Israel with a cartoon. If fact it's not even an attack. It's a legitimate questioning.

this controversy overshadows that discussion in the Islamic world (and the West - Obama didn't understand this, too) and precludes a rational discussion in the Arab world about those good reasons for a Jewish state. Jews need to 'leap' over this controversy and emphasize the rational reasons; i.e. religious discrimination against Jews and others in moslems countries, and not by name-calling. They've set a trap and we've been 'Jew baited' in the worst possible way and fallen for it.

Ahmadinejad calls this an investigation of an historic event. How can cartoons claiming that the holocaust didn't happen be called an investigation? He could at least be honest and say that he's mocking the Jews. And how can he allow this when he believes mocking Islam is worthy of death? It is hypocritical to the extreme. I very much doubt Israel will call upon its people to become suicide bombers and attack innocent Iranians over this. That's the sort of thing Ahmadinejad would do. The evidence backing the holocaust is huge. For Ahmadinejad to say the holocaust never occurred is like saying that Germany didn't start WWII, and that Hitler didn't like being a leader.

I guess this should also put into question their belief in their Mo since they seem not to accept historical facts

But honestly why the Jewish people do not let free investigation to make their mouth closed? If I were not in Europe and did not see how the europeans treat the minorities, I would never have beleived Holoucast , just by living in an Iranian social context. The first thing our parrents teach us in Iran is we should be kind to all zoroastarian and christian and Jewish people. My mother told me do not forget that some of them are even better than muslims! but if we marry them we would be punished!! It is all an Iranian child or young typically knows about anti-semitism! So they can not beleive Holocaust. In Iran, even the problem of Israel is completely seperated from Judaism. They never taught us in school books that Israel is bad because it is Jewish. (Actually they cannot do it because it is in clear contradiction with Quran . Instead they taught us in school books that Israel is bad because it kills Palestinian children and people). So people who never have left country can not even understand what is Holocaust. If they do investigation and understand it , they would shut up their mouth.

This website is an absolutely revolting display of inhumanity. Imagine if there was a campaign to question the validity of the killing fields of Pol Pot or the genocide in Rwanda. I always thought the Mohammed cartoon was nauseating... but this brings ignorance to another level. A new low for one of the oldest civilization in the world.

Iranian website, and Iranian president, deny the Holocaust - and the world remains silent. Short of bringing total destruction on Iran, now is the time for hackers all over the world, who believe in truth and justice, to wreck damage on that vile site, and remain vigilant to more such-like sites cropping up at an alarming rate. For those who will retort to this post that you can’t curtail free speech/artistic creations, look deeply into your soul, tomorrow these same people will mock you, whether you are Christian, Buddhist, or whatever. By the way, this is the history that will be taught in the soon-to-be Cordoba center, approved by the deluded New York city council.

The best evidence of the Holocaust are the German films themselves. These were not made by Americans or Israelis. It is time to stand up for all these lies. It would be nice if the country ,Germany , would take claim to these fiilms.

Ahmainejad and his foolowers are very close to self distruction. By the word of G-D they, each and every on of them will pay the ultimate price for their blood sucking brain washing propaganda campaign.Just the same as the muslim world got offended by the Swedish cartoonist caricature about the prophet Mohammed, so do the Jewish people everywhere on this planet have the very same right to be offended by all this STUPIDITY and thrash talking about the " holocaust was a sheer lie"?. and the need to wipe out of the state of ISRAEL from the map? SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on all of them.

Nothing new here.

I'll withhold judgment until I am able to load the site. I'm not a fan of historical dogmas enforced by law that people can be fined or imprisoned for questioning or for submitting to revision in the light of new or additional knowledge.

This is totally out of place - and so is making fun of Islam's Prophet Mohammed.

The offensive and silly cartoons from this website, next to a sexy portrait photo of Ahmadinajad, should be featured prominently in the displays at the Yad Vahsem holocaust museum. The caption under Ahmad's portrait should read, "Proud supporter and eager sponsor of Holocaust." After all, it's cartoons such as these, promoted by people such as him, which lead to holocausts.

Antisemitism, Jew hating, Israel bashing, whatever the name of this morbid and eternal passion, has always been essentially, to quote a famous christian theologian, a «spiritual temptation». In simpler words, it is a mental drug. And as for any drug, the more one takes, the more one wants; the more one wants, the more one takes, until the final and lethal overdose.

Seems like you all can dish it but cant take it... Get over it... Love the cartoons!

It is apparently much more difficult to believe than stories of an Imam who became invisible to his enemies.

...is the chairman of a Liberation Organization and the president of a political entity both of which are determined to wipe Israel off the face of earth, in one fell swoop if possible or in stages if necessary. And Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinijad, who is behind the campaign of denying the Shoah is the president of the Islamist republic of Iran that has been calling for the wiping of Israel off the face of earth and with it all traces of Jewish life. What a company...!!

It's nearly funny. No one with a liittle brain can trust that.... Also if he does not know nothing about history.. I think Star Wars to be more realistic than that...

the holocaust in some countries makes any sensible person skeptical. I mean you cant get locked up for questioning any other historical event so why the holocaust???

The caricatures on this website could have been taken out of the Sturmer: 'anti-semitic caricatures, which revealed Jews as ugly characters with exaggerated facial features and misshapen bodies'. Thank in no small part to this sort of artistic exercise, my grand dad was taken from his home by the collar, with 15,000 others, shoved in cattle wagons, and left to roast and die of thirst over two weeks under the August sun. He had been the representative for Zwilling in his town. What had he done to deserve this? The incident is related in Curzio Malaparte, Kaputt, published in 1943! After the war, my mom went back to look for his grave. The people of the village showed her a plot, not so very big, covered by a concrete slab and circled by one single row of barb-wire. No name, of course, a single Star of David scratched on the concrete. I call on the malediction of all righteous men over the heads of those who ridicule our fallen ones. They say that, although the wheels of the Lord grind slowly, they grind excessively finely. I am looking forward to the day they will pull him from his hole in the ground, as they did to Saddam.

Iranian officials argue that while publishing insulting cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad and humiliating the sentiments of over one billion Muslims is considered by the West as press freedom.

"Ahmadinejad also has said that even if the Nazi mass murder was true, those responsible for the crime should be punished, but that Israel should not be allowed to use it a pretext for committing another Holocaust against Palestinians."

Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Correa, Fidel Castro, Erdogan. and most of all LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, actual president of Brazilm who was received by the Knesset for the deception of many peple

75 million died in the holocaust. The Jewish portion (6 million) is called "Shoah." Don't confuse the two. Salaam/Shalom

What else could we expect from a country led by Haman?

Clearly these juvenile cartoons are clear historical proof that the Holocaust is a myth. Who can argue with a cartoon!

Thanks to articles like this the company behind the website generates a great deal of traffic. It's doubtful that this was orchestrated by the government as much as by a profit motive. The ISP is Toos-Ashena Co. Ltd with a contact as Saman Akhgarandooz phone +98-511-8512516.

The less you talk about these people, the better. All they are looking for is media attention.

It didn't disprove the Holocaust. It said it was okay to question the Holocaust because it said the number was really between 5 Million and 6 Million. It seemed to say that the Holocaust was sort of funny to Iran, because Iranians say it was just a word that Jewish people made up, and even if it happened, the Jews might have deserved it anyway, because of the stereotype about Jews and money. It said there were Arabs living in Palestine before Israel was created and seems to indicate that nobody paid attention to that fact. A lie. But the site especially says that the Iranian People do not care what happened to the Jews unless they are only mentioned as an almost insignificant aspect out of a total picture. Nothing about Aryan Racial Laws. No recapping of what Hitler said in Mein Kamph. No Yellow Stars. Nothing about Kristallnacht. It even gives respect to Pseudo-Historians, who don't have any credibility except to Anti-Semites. And it says the Mufti had no connection to Hitler except that he looked at some photos which is another lie. One more thing? No historical context either in the site, about the history of Anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere leading up to the Shoah. So... this is what I think. Seemingly. even if Ahmadinejad is assassinated, according to this site, there are plenty of Iranians that think like him. If they want to think like him, I can't stop them from thinking. But at the same time, thinking and doing are two different things. What the Iranians are doing are creating Atomic Weapons to be loaded on top of Intercontinental Missiles. So they think like Nazis and they are DOING this. That's different than just an Anti-Semite. That is that they thinking akin to Hitler and are building a means to exterminate Jews. So... at this point, I don't have any problem with Israel bombing Iranian Nuclear Sites or someone assassinating Ahmadinejad. If Iranians just want to murder Ahmadinejad and take down this site, that would probably make me feel better about them. But anyway, for right now, Israel... go ahead and bomb Iran, if you want to, and if Ahmadinejad should get killed anytime soon, that would be a good first step towards peace because there would be one less Anti-Semite in the World with a bomb.

The way to answer the anti-Holocaust twaddle is to deny the existence of Mohammed. There are very serious scholars (Muslim, by the way) who make the case that Mohammed never existed. This is a controversy that should be made more public. There is also a controversy about how many versions of the Koran existed in the time soon after the alleged death of this so-called prophet. There is a very serious theological point to be made by this argument. This is another issue that deserves more public scrutiny.

Holocaust happened but some Jews have used it almost as a weapon to push Jewish goals and that is the reason some Muslims wish to discredit it. The Jewish people were the largest group to die in camp/prisons but far from the only group, 3M Soviet POW, Roma (Gypsies), freedom fighters from many countries and mentally insane/retarded.

Iraqi information minister remember you , in front of reporters telling Americans that we were beaten ,this time a disease is another way of blatant lies by ball.

These guys are some sick bastards.

That is good idea from Iran , if Holocaust is founded on authentic historical proofs ... Why are we so exited then ?

We all know this kind of ignorance exists in the Middle East and elsewhere. Why in the world are you giving it space on Haaretz?

Racist Europeans (neo-nazis) don't like Jews and muslims. Instead of denying the Holocaust, he should understand that muslims can also be targets of genocide (Bosnia); (Gaza is not a genocide). When words like genocide are used out of context, the meaning gets lost. Maybe, only when smarter people, rule, things will get better.

Cartoon site dedicated to affirmation of undeniable relations between Mohammad and 6 years old Aishe'le needed. Should be dedicated to all victims of sexual child abuse

Within 7 years from today the Iranians won't be able to draw,paint or write...Everything will have become withered like a dead leaf.

irarians can spit on our history, of course jewish people are the evil zionist conspiracy of nowadays, and of course we all hate the palestinians, and of course we have no right to reflect our history. then, in which century of the middle ages are you stuck, dear chomeini followers? how many opposition followers have you slaughtered in iran since 1978? iran is detaining the progress of peace by pushing the PA and lebanese authorities towards continuing ugly terrorism, which will not aid neither palestinians nor israelis. we don´t need you iran, we are all quite aware of the steps which have to be taken towards the alleviation of traumatised middle eastern citicens and countries. but to deny israel will not bring any progress, haven´t we learned that, yet?

Please tell us what happened to the 6 million Jewish people,they did'nt just disappear and I suppose according to the little monkey Ahmadinejad,all the others that died under the Nazis,is just another mith,or is this part true?

1) the failure of Israel to advance the facts regarding its actual founding at San Remo with total Arab/Muslim support and acknowledgment is a crime. Israel was not founded because of the holocaust, but inspite of it! 2)If there were no holocaust, the every Jew could feel much more relaxed. It is insane to think Jews want to have to deal wit the holocaust. Better it never happened for every Jew.

looked at 3 pictures? He lived in Berlin for years.

The contents of a history book are dictated by the current political climate rather than the facts. Israels history texts paint a very different picture of the history of the region than do American history texts. American history is very much sanitized for the consumption of American students. In spite of the liberties taken with history throughout the world it has never become an issue. Now we have seen the rise of the history police. What is their purpose? To jail people who do not acknowledge Israels viewpoint on history regarding the holocaust. There is no other subject in the annals of history which concern the history police at this time. The holocaust, along with its related topics, such as Nazis, Hitler, death camps, etc, seem to have become the trademarked property of Israels Jews. These words cannot be used anywhere in the world without the local Jewish chapter reviewing them and castigating the user. Israel will not accept any version of history other than their own. This is where we enter into dangerous territory. Is Israels influnce over the history police restricted only to the holocaust? At whiat point are we allowed to consider it propaganda?

that number is way too high

I noticed that some of the insulting cartoons came from a Danish newspaper with a nazi sympathizer background (in Schleswig-Holstein. Does that mean that S.H. is still a very prejudiced part of Denmark and so printed insulting cartoons of Mohammed (hence hated Jews and also muslims). Do peole defend their right to free speech out of the belief in free speech or because they also prejudiced? In the USA, there is the most free speech (free speech for hate speech); and holocaust denying is hate speech; so people don't agree with the holocaust denying or cartoons, but believe in freedom of speech. Cartoons insulting Mohammed and holocaust denying may both be hate speech, protected in some countries, but not in others. Holocaust denying is not protected in many European countries, you may remember Mr. Ahmadinejad, as you could be arrested there for denying it, because of the trauma they suffered under Hitler, and they don't want another Hitler, so go ahead and doubt and investigate, what everyone knows as a fact, but don't be puzzled if you are threatened with arrest in Europe. Sometime, also try to feel the pain of the Jewish people and the others who were victims of the Holocaust. We must feel the pain of the Palestinians, Armenians, Darfur, Congo today, anyone who hurts.

I suggest someone sue them for using the Pink Panther theme ... i doubt they bought the rights to it.

... is what happened to once noble Persian Empire?

We shouldn't identify this ''non-governmental'' site with the nation state of ''Iran'' or the Iranian people nor should this stupid website be used by intellectuals or politicians as one of the many ''justifications'' for a possible invasion of Iran. No more than the Ku Klux Klan website is justification for bombing, or simply hating, the USA.

The best answer to people who question anything relating to the Holocaust is to open the German archives and allow everyone to access the information - especially researches who have shyed away from doing research on this topic for the fear of being labeled "unbelievers" and "questioners" of the given historical facts. Both history and science can only make advancements if people are allowed to do real and open research.

one thing only , to have the issue of holocaust in the news always ,, Move on !! Don't give this person the satisfaction ,, history can't be rewritten ....facts are facts .

This campaign has to be paid by the government of Iran. Nothing happens there without the approval of their leaders who seem to bask and rejoice in showing hate for the state of Israel and its citizens. A clear demonstration of their mental instability and ignorance of the philosophy taught in the very religion they say they profess. I pity them; to waste their lives harboring hate in their hearts, teaching their children the same, waking up every morning to live a day of negativity, poor souls!

when this "idiot" as you call him is well on his way to acquiring nuclear capability. The real question is where you will stand when Israel has to make some tough decisions regarding Iran. Will the Palestinians cheer Ahmadinejad on or will they have the courage that you do to recognize that this fellow is harming your cause.

Yet again when we think they can't shock us they bring something new and more provocative. No wonder the entire world is against them save a few bad apples.

What a bunch of hypocrites these Iranians are. If Eichmann and Mengele and their boss were alive today, Ahmadinejad wouldn't deny what they had done to the Jews. On the contrary, he'd give them a heroes' welcome.

By continuous questioning the Holocaust - and connecting it to our Naqba, the Iranian regime is harming our cause. So if Ahmedinejad is wrong - and I am sure he is - does that mean that suddenly the injustice done to us is right? Of course not. The Jews have suffered, so have we, and that's that. Now let's look at the future. We want a state of our own, that's all. Please don't pay attention to an idiot that's a thousand miles away.