PARIS - ParisÂ’s mayor on Thursday condemned a Teheran exhibition of cartoons on the Holocaust, saying the display mocked the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews. Bertrand Delanoe said he was appalled by the display of more than 200 entries from IranÂ’s International Holocaust Cartoons Contest, which organisers say aims to challenge Western taboos about discussing the mass killings of European Jews.
Delanoe condemned the exhibition in a letter to Iran’s ambassador, saying the event “intended to mock the tragedy of the Shoah and to trivialise a new anti-Semitic bid under the false pretext of art and freedom of speech”. “At a time when violence and war should lead everyone towards a willingness for dialogue, appeasement and tolerance, such a step serves, on the contrary, motivations dominated by hatred,” the Socialist mayor said.
Delanoe called on Iran to let “the paths of reason and respect of others” prevail.
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