International contest of caricatures on the Holocaust

The international contest of caricatures on the Holocauste is an event presented by the newspaper Hamshahri, which organizes the contest, like a response to the publication to the Denmark of caricatures of the prophet Mahomet, contest which should be renewed annually.

The competition for A-grade officials gave place to the exposure of 204 works come from the whole world to the museum of Contemporary art of Teheran. According to its person in charge Massoud Shojai, the contest should be repeated each year. The editors of the newspaper Hamshahri, Co-organizer of the contest, launched even a challenge to the Western mediums and thus expressed their position: “Does the Occident extend freedom of expression to the crimes committed by the United States and Israel, or to an event like the holocaust? Or is freedom of expression just used to insult the holy characters of a religion? ”

The prize list of the first competition for A-grade officials was made public on November 1st, 2006 with Teheran. The Moroccan draftsman Abdollah Derkaoui received the first price equipped with the equivalent of 9.400 euros for a drawing drawing up a parallel between the extermination of the Jews and the situation of the Palestinians.

Several drawings subjected to the competition for A-grade officials a character marked negationnist : a gas chamber in stage set carrying the inscription " myth of the rooms with gaz" is slept, and a Jew stereotyped request “Which put it by ground? ” one answers him “Faurisson”. A drawing of Maziyar Bizhani watch a revolving small group of Jews in round to increase a meter up to 6 million while passing by a room which does not make them any evil. The victorious drawing presents Auschwitz like a decoration .

The dessinatrice French Francoise Pichard, known under the pseudonym of “Chard” and frequently publishing in the weekly magazine of extreme-right-hand side Rivarol , obtained the second price, ex-aequo with the draftsman of political cartoon Brazilian Carlos Latuff. She refused it, not having never made application form for this contest. The Iranian Shahram Rezai obtained the third place, equipped with the equivalent of 4.000 euros.

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Caricatures of Mahomet of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten

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