Mount Royal MP Anthony Housefather condemned Iran’s international competition soliciting cartoons that mock the Holocaust saying it “belittles the memory of the Holocaust and its survivors,” in a statement in the House of Commons on March 7.
He was referring to the third Holocaust cartoons contest Iran is scheduled to host in June.
“At this deplorable event, participants are rewarded for drawing cartoons that deny the Holocaust in return for a [U.S.} $50,000 cash prize. [T]his competition is an insult to survivors of the Holocaust and to all those who value common sense and history.”
He urged his fellow MPs to press the Iranian authorities to cancel “this celebration of Holocaust denial.”
Israel has called on the United Nations to denounce the competition, which Iran claims it launched to prove a double standard in the defence of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.