Anti-Jewish Cartoon Exhibit In Iran

In a front page story today, the New York Times reports on an anti-Semitic art show in Iran. The display of 200 drawings in Tehran's Palestinian Contemporary Art Museum that opened this month is called "Holocaust International Cartoon Contest". The offensive display is variously justified as a response to cartoons of Muhammad published in the West last year and as a protest against the treatment of Palestinians by Israel. The exhibit, which is not technically sponsored by the government, has attracted little attention from Iranians. The show's curator argues that the exhibit is not anti-Jewish, but merely opposed to Israeli "repression".