And I thought that Israel was all for free speech!
Didn't Netanyahu attend the Paris demonstration of the world leaders in support of freedom of expression, even to the point of physically pushing his way to the front?
From "Israel Demands UN Condemn Iran's Holocaust-Themed Cartoon Contest":
Israel’s top representative to the United Nations is demanding that the world body condemn the Iranian government for hosting a contest featuring Holocaust-themed cartoons.
Ron Prosor wrote a letter over the weekend to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and global delegates urging them to publicly censure the contest, which is scheduled to take place this coming April.
The contest organizers said the event is a response to the massacre of journalists at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo last month. The magazine was targeted due to controversial cartoons it had published depicting Islam’s prophet, Mohammed, in humorous situations.
The organizers argued that the event is in line with Western values that preserve humans’ right to freedom of expression.
The contest winners will receive awards, while one cartoon will be chosen for exhibition at a museum featuring Palestinian works of art in Tehran.
http://nonalignedmedia.com/2015/02/holocaust-skeptic-sentenced-two-years-prison-france/
ReplyDeleteNothing funny about jail for non-violent dissent.
I hope that my fellow whites in Europe reform these insane hate-speech laws. Jail time for Holocaust denial or statements about race is ABSOLUTELY crazy. I am an American and reading stories about people going to jail for saying hurtful things is ATROCIOUS. Immigration and hate speech laws have to be REFORMED TODAY in America and Europe.
ReplyDeleteBackfire is not the appropriate term. Backfire implies that an action will result in unwelcome negative consequences on the perpetrator. At worst, this will have no consequence at all.
ReplyDeleteI believe it can only have a positive consequence, if any. I construe it as an attempt to break down taboos and to treat Israel the way they treat the rest of the world. We all think of doing this...and the Iranians ARE doing it. If that encourages a few more to question the Holocaust...publically or otherwise... then it is a worthwhile endeavor.
Ichthys
You think the Arabs are attempting to break down taboos by criticizing the Holocaust? This implies the Arabs are trying to set a free speech precedent. That is insane. Free speech is anathema to dogmatic religious tyrants.
ReplyDeleteThis is an attempt to spite Jews. When people see Arabs attacking the Holocaust narrative they think 'wow, holocaust deniers really are lunatics." People who believe in a mystical sky father, Muslims, have no credibility to attack something based on evidence. Europe needs to reform its hate speech laws and they don't need the Arabs.
This is 27 anon.
ReplyDeleteThe burden of proof is ALWAYS on the person who makes the assertion.
In my view, the evidence shows that the Nazis DID NOT HAVE the capacity to kill 6 million people in the amount of time they had. Probably around 290,000 mostly from Typhus. I won't outright say it did not occur. I believe it's a warped story to benefit the Jews. They have a history of warped victim stories; see Exodus.
However Jews>Arabs. Arabs are animals. It doesn't make sense that Jews want to destroy the White Man's world. We are the buffer between them and the 3rd world.
"You think the Arabs are attempting to break down taboos by criticizing the Holocaust? This implies the Arabs are trying to set a free speech precedent. That is insane. Free speech is anathema to dogmatic religious tyrants."
ReplyDeleteNo one thinks that the Iranians are Western liberals-or liberals of any kind. The problem is that in the US and its Eurosphere vassal states *Israel* is presented as a Western liberal democracy.