"Iran plans to hold another cartoon contest focusing on Holocaust denial, and Israeli officials have called on the United Nations to condemn the event.
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday appealed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to denounce the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial.
In a letter to Ban, Edelstein said that 'words cannot describe the revulsion and protestation of the state of Israel and many across the world at the recurring proof that Iran continues in its policy of Holocaust denial.'...
Last week, Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon also called on Ban to condemn the competition, claiming 'this anti-Semitic act represents the pure evil of the Iranian regime.'
'Denying the Holocaust is one of the most powerful expressions of anti-Semitism, which legitimizes the deaths of millions of Jews,' Danon wrote to the secretary general, noting the upcoming International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. 'While the world will remember the atrocities of the Holocaust which are still fresh in our collective memory, one member state will be hosting a contest which desecrates the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust,' he wrote.
'The United Nations must resolutely stand up against this hatred and harshly condemn this heinous act.'..."