Posted on 02/25/2006 2:52:58 AM PST by Antioch
Tom and Jerry, the lovable cat and mouse locked in cartoon combat, is a Jewish conspiracy, according to an Iranian official.
Prof. Hasan Bolkhari, a cultural advisor to the Iranian Education Ministry, delivered the news last week on Iran's Channel 4 during a broadcast of film seminar where he was lecturing. An excerpt of the video was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon," said Bolkhari. "It is still shown throughout the world. This cartoon maintains its status because of the cute antics of the cat and mouse – especially the mouse.
"Some say that the main reason for making this very appealing cartoon was to erase a certain derogatory term that was prevalent in Europe."
According to the professor, "Tom and Jerry" was created to irradicate the association between mice and Jews created in the minds of Europeans by Hitler.
"If you study European history, you will see who was the main power in hoarding money and wealth in the 19th century," continued Bolkhari. "In most cases, it is the Jews. Perhaps that was one of the reasons which caused Hitler to begin the anti-Semitic trend, and then the extensive propaganda about the crematoria began. ... Some of this is true. We do not deny all of it.
"Watch 'Schindler's List.' Every Jew was forced to wear yellow star on his clothing. The Jews were degraded and termed 'dirty mice.' 'Tom and Jerry' was made in order to change the Europeans' perception of mice. One of terms used was 'dirty mice.'
"It should be noted that mice are very cunning ... and dirty."
"Tom and Jerry," the creation of Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna, was created in 1939, the year World War II began and while the Holocaust was in full force, for the MGM cartoon studios, not Disney. During the next 18 years, Hanna and Barbera created over 200 cartoons featuring Tom and Jerry, earning the pair seven Academy Awards. Today, "Tom and Jerry" is owned by Turner Entertainment.
"If you happen to watch this cartoon tomorrow, bear in mind the points I have just raised," said Bolkhari, "and watch it from this perspective. The mouse is very clever and smart. Everything he does is so cute. He kicks the poor cat's a--. Yet this cruelty does not make you despise the mouse. He looks so nice, and he is so clever. ... This is exactly why some say it was meant to erase this image of mice from the minds of European children, and to show that the mouse is not dirty and has these traits. Unfortunately, we have many such cases in Hollywood shows."
Somehow, I can never watch Tom & Jerry with a straight face again. I'll be LMAO at the idea of the Mooj.....
This just goes beyond stupid.
Admit it: you'll never be able to watch Itchy saw Scratchy's head off again without thinking of that.
Disney? Somebody tell this complete and total MORON that Tom and Jerry was M.G.M.....produced and directed by the cartoon team of Hanna-Barbera, at least, the BEST ones were....(Chuck Jones' were a close second, IMHO...)
And this, with a straight face, is the "culture" we are told to respect by the liberals ........
Hmmmm. So apparently this professor can't see the distinction between Walt Disney and Hanna-Barberra, and lost, somewhere in translation, the distinction between mice and rats.
With that kind of attention to detail, I have a whole lot of confidence in this scholar's insights. I'm waiting for his explanation of the Zionist plot behind Betty Boop and Popeye.
I guess I should have read thru the last paragraph of the article.....but if someone as "uneducated" as I knows this....
Shouldn't we start rioting now, or something?
Just wait until these two characters make their debut on Al Jazeera tv.
Islam, Iran, libs, Democrats and the rest are about as LOONY as the toons.
Please, don't disgrace toons like that!
Are the libs going to to try to BAN T&C and others for being insulting to Islam????
YES!!!
I guess it's a GOOD thing that Ted Turner is stepping down from Time-Warner....
All this rhetoric coming out of Iran is just stunning. I can't believe the level of the propaganda being pushed.
We here in the West see it for the propaganda it is and miss the point that the Iranian people are living in a pretty closed society...
So they have no way of knowing the truth. We can point out all day what is distorted with the Iranian Professors statements, but if the Iranian people don't hear the truth what good is it?
Finally someone sees the truth in Tom and Jerry. I always felt they were a plot perpetrated by the juice. The juice plot to rule the wolrkd using Tom and Jerry cartoons.
What a f-ing stupid.
If ever you wonder why mid-east mooseims have failed to contribute anything besides oil to the world in centuries just reread this article.
They're begging to be attacked. Every day the propaganda gets more and more shrill. They truly believe they can prevail in a regional nuclear war with the help of their Mahdi
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