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15. Nov 2006

Vinder fundet i den iranske Holocaust-konkurrence

 
Berkaoui: Vinder af iransk Holocaust-konkurrence
Jfr. billedet. Holocaust-konkurrencen virkede umiddelbart som en tåbelig idé med antisemitiske overtoner: Hvis I kan gøre grin med profeten, kan vi da bare også gøre grin mod Holocaust, ja vi kan!

Den vindende tegning er, i lighed med danskeren Jørgen Bitschs bidrag, ikke specielt Holocaust-benægtende eller overhovedet antisemitisk, men gør opmærksom på, at pro-israelske kræfter bruger Holocausts og nazismens spøgelser til at forhindre folk i at kritisere og tale om palæstinensernes lidelser i dag - en observation, der er fuldstændig sand.

Tegningens ophavsmand, den marokkanske tegner Derkaoui, har denne kommentar til konkurrencen og hans egen deltagelse:
As you know, I won first place in the Iran cartoon contest which had the theme: “Why do the Palestinian people pay the price of butchery for the Holocaust?”

I took part in this contest to express my support for the Palestinian people and I did a drawing showing the Israeli wall isolating the Palestinian territories being lifted by an Israeli war machine; I added a photograph to the wall showing the Auschwitz concentration camp.

I want to express my total heartfelt sympathy with the millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust who suffered the greatest crime against humanity under the Nazis. Nobody can deny that more than six million people were massacred during the second world war by the devil Hitler and his Nazi henchmen. But the question for me and for so many others is why the Palestinian people have suffered from so much pain, and massacres, and why they continue to suffer in the current situation.

As a citizen of Morocco it is my deepest conviction that Jews are my brothers; Jews have lived with us in peace and tolerance as fellow citizens in Morocco for 2000 years. I remember that in World War II, Morocco did not cooperate with the Vichy government of France when the King of Morocco stood up to the German demands and refused to send thousands of Moroccan Jews to the German concentration camps. I am proud of Morocco for taking this noble stand. I am proud of Morocco which has been and will be tomorrow, a place of tolerance between Jews and Muslims, who will live here together like brothers.
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